Thousands of protesters in Peru, many from the country’s heavily indigenous south, descended on Lima, the capital, on Thursday, angered by a mounting death toll since unrest erupted last month and calling for sweeping change. Police estimated the march at around 3,500 people, but others speculated it attracted …
Brazil’s former Justice Minister Anderson Torres, who was in charge of public security in Brasilia during the invasion of government buildings a week ago, was arrested in Brasilia today on suspicion of “omission” and “connivance”. His detention came a day after Brazil’s public prosecutor announced that it had …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US consumer prices fell for the first time in more than two and a half years in December amid declining prices for gasoline and motor vehicles, offering hope that inflation was now on a sustained downward trend, though the labor market remains tight. Americans also got …
Santiago Mitre’s ‘Argentina, 1985’ won the Golden Globe for Best Non-English Language Motion Picture last night at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s awards ceremony in Los Angeles. The film, starring Ricardo Darin and Peter Lanzani as the prosecution team behind Argentina’s Trial of the Juntas, is the country’s …
At least 17 people were killed in clashes with police in southern Peru, the country’s human rights office said on Monday, the deadliest day so far of protests demanding early elections and the release of jailed former president Pedro Castillo. The clashes occurred in Juliaca, a city near …
Argentine politicians across the spectrum have condemned Sunday’s attack on Brazil’s congress, Supreme Court, and presidential palace. While ruling center-left Frente de Todos coalition has voiced solidarity with Lula, the Juntos por el Cambio opposition has compared the attacks with the internal wrangle for Argentina’s Supreme Court. The …
Brazilian security forces have detained over 1,200 pro-Bolsonaro protesters who were camping outside the army headquarters in Brasília in rejection of last October’s election results. Their removal comes as the government starts to investigate those responsible for storming the nation’s Congress, Supreme Court, and Presidential Palace on Sunday. …
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil is reeling in shock after supporters of Brazil’s far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded and defaced the country’s Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court on Sunday afternoon, in a grim echo of the U.S. Capitol invasion two years ago by fans of former President …
The violent invasion of the headquarters of the three powers in Brasilia by thousands of far-right supporters –only a week into Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s third government–, caught security forces strikingly off guard, especially state military police and the Army. Indeed, evicting the camps set up near …
