WAGENINGEN, Netherlands (AP) - Suriname’s newly elected parliament chose a former police chief as the country’s president on Monday to replace Desiree “Desi” Bouterse, who faces a murder conviction at home and a drug smuggling sentence abroad. Chandrikapersad Santokhi, better known as “Chan,” will inherit a devastated economy in the South American nation of about 600,000 people upon his inauguration on Thursday. “We are on the brink of a financial abyss,” Santokhi said. “There is concern.