Endure Crowded Conditions Amid Venezuela’s crises, overcrowded prisons and an overburdened justice system have forced women awaiting trial — and even some convicted of crimes — to spend months in crowded cells at detention centers that were never intended for such use. Whether from nihilism, hopelessness or grim resignation, that sentiment fits the setting: a packed Venezuelan jail cell where… Read more »
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis expressed a potential willingness on Tuesday to mediate a peaceful resolution to the tense political conflict in Venezuela if asked by both President Nicolás Maduro and the opposition leader who is increasingly recognized as the country’s legitimate leader. “We are always willing,” said Francis on the papal plane returning to Rome from Abu… Read more »
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, who was jailed last April on a corruption conviction, was sentenced on Wednesday to nearly 13 more years in a new graft case, making it increasingly unlikely that a man once considered the lion of Latin America’s left would ever recover his political clout. Mr. da Silva, a two-time… Read more »
One of Latin America’s most respected figures, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner has been accused of sexual assault by four women in a 48 hour time period. Twice president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias Sanchez, 78 has, was first accused on Tuesday evening by a woman who then sparked a domino effect through social media. Ms. Eleonora Antillion kept… Read more »
Eleonora Antillón had kept her secret bottled up for more than 30 years. But when she read an article on social media on Tuesday saying a woman had accused Óscar Arias Sánchez, the former president of Costa Rica, of sexual assault, she did not hesitate: “From personal experience with him,” she wrote on the social media platform, “I BELIEVE her!!”… Read more »