Venezuela has plunged into a major political crisis amid a growing row over President Nicolas Maduro’s future as the country’s leader. Maduro started a second term on January 10, following a widely boycotted election last year that many foreign governments refused to recognise. On January 23, Juan Guaido, leader of the opposition-controlled National Assembly, declared himself interim president. Shortly after Guaido took… Read more »
Guiado is the interim president of Venezuela, and is backed by the United States. Recently, a chief justice had asked politicians to strip the immunity from Guiado, in order to prosecute him for alleged crimes while he wants to overthrow President Maduro. A Supreme Court justice says that Guiado violated a policy on not leaving the country after he went… Read more »
San Salvador, El Salvador – Mario* says he used to be an aggressive, domineering and an arrogant person. When his relationship ended more than two years ago, he threatened to publish intimate photos and videos of his ex-girlfriend in an attempt to regain control. He did not share the images publicly, but his messages were still a crime under Salvadoran law:… Read more »
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced a 30-day plan to ration electricity after nationwide power cuts that have inflicted misery on millions of people and ignited protests, including one near the presidential palace in Caracas. The rationing plan will help deal with the outages that have also cut off the water supply and communications for days at a time, Maduro said on Sunday… Read more »
Seventeen people have been killed and eight more injured after a double-decker bus caught fire at an illegal transport terminal in the Peruvian capital Lima, a spokesman for the country’s firefighters said. Witnesses said the fire on Sunday started in the bus’s motor at the rear of the vehicle and quickly spread to its interior, spokesman Lewis Mejia told reporters,… Read more »
Venezuela’s chief justice on Monday asked politicians to strip opposition leader Juan Guaido of immunity, taking a step towards prosecuting him for alleged crimes as he seeks to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro. Supreme Court Justice Maikel Moreno said Guaido should be prosecuted for violating a ban on leaving the country when he went on a tour of Latin American countries that… Read more »
On Thursday, Brazil’s ex-President Michel Temer was arrested on corruption charges. An anti-corruption investigation has been put into action since 2014, known as “Car Wash,” and has led to 10 arrest warrants being carried out and 26 more put into place since Thursday. Temer was only president during 2016 to 2018, however he was hit with charges regarding management contracts… Read more »
US President Donald Trump and Brazil’s new far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro forged a bond over their shared brand of conservative and populist politics on Tuesday, with Trump pledging to give more US support to Brazil’s global ambitions. Speaking at a joint White House news conference Trump said: “As I told President Bolsonaro, I also intend to designate Brazil as a major non-NATO ally –… Read more »
Sao Paulo – Brazil‘s former President Michel Temer was arrested on Thursday as part of the sweeping anti-corruption investigation known as “Car Wash”, police said. According to the Federal Police office in Rio de Janeiro, authorities carried out 10 arrest warrants, including that of Michel Temer, as well as 26 additional search warrants on Thursday. Local media reported the former president was arrested… Read more »
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati, the archbishop of Santiago and the highest-ranking member of the Catholic Church in Chile, who has been caught up in the country’s sex abuse scandal. A Vatican statement on Saturday said the pope had named Bishop Celestino Aos Braco of the Chilean city of Copiapo, as “apostolic administrator” to run the Santiago… Read more »