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Guaido says he's maintaining 'very discreet' contacts with Venezuelan military
Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido said Tuesday he has been keeping up "very discreet" contacts with Caracas' military, insisting that the armed forces were part of the overwhelming majority of people who wanted a change of government. Guaido is recognized as interim president of the ...
Brazil inaugurates far-right firebrand junta fan Jair Bolsonaro as president
Right-wing nationalist Jair Bolsonaro, who has vowed to crack down on political corruption, violent crime and ignite a moribund economy with deregulation and fiscal discipline, was sworn in as Brazil's president on Tuesday. The former army captain and seven-term fringe congressman rode a wave of ...
Ex-Ford Argentina execs sentenced for facilitating torture of union workers during military rule
An Argentine court on Tuesday sentenced two former Ford Motor Co. executives to prison for helping agents of the country's former dictatorship round up 24 Argentine union workers who were tortured and held in military jails. The courtroom was crowded with family members of the ...
Environment activists alarmed as Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro rolls out hard-line agenda
Brazil's far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro started rolling out key points in his hard-line agenda Tuesday, including a move to merge the agriculture and environment ministries that activists warned would imperil the Amazon rain forest. The former army captain huddled with his inner circle at the ...
Brazil entered a new era Monday after electing its next president, Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right congressman who vowed a fundamental change in direction for the giant Latin American country. Bolsonaro, who openly admires Brazil's former military dictatorship and shocked many with his derogatory remarks on ...
Argentine rights group IDs 126th person stolen as baby during bloody dictatorship era
An Argentine human rights group says DNA tests have determined the identity of another person taken from parents by the country's former dictatorship, bringing the number of such cases to 126. The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo rights group said Tuesday that she's the ...
Bongbong: Family to provide 'truth' to fix 'historical revisionism' of Marcos regime in Philippines
The Marcos family intends to correct what it views as historical "revisionism" in the Philippines by providing the "truth" and not just a version of what happened during the more than two decades of rule by Ferdinand Marcos that ended in 1986, the late ...
Peru may cut diplomatic ties with Venezuela to protest vote for constitution rewrite assembly
Peru may sever diplomatic ties with Venezuela to protest Sunday's election of a legislative superbody in the country that has been widely criticized as undemocratic, Peruvian Foreign Minister Ricardo Luna said on Thursday. Luna said Peru wanted to discuss appropriate measures with his regional counterparts ...
Defying Trump's 'brutal interventionist' threat, Maduro to press ahead with Constituent Assembly
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government on Tuesday vowed to proceed with plans for a controversial new congress despite what it called a "brutal interventionist" threat of U.S. economic sanctions. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would take "strong and swift economic actions" if Maduro ...
Pitfalls of strongman populism
Democratically adopted policies have more staying power than those imposed by autocrats.
