Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was handed a second prison sentence for corruption on Wednesday, reported dpa news. Judge Gabriela Hardt sentenced Lula to 12 years and 11 months in prison for graft and money laundering. Lula was jailed in April on another 12-year sentence for related corruption.
Read MoreVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has reached out to Pope Francis, asking for his help to bring about a peaceful solution to the crisis in Venezuela. Maduro is facing increasing international pressure to resign from office two weeks after opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself to be Venezuela’s interim president and has since been recognized by dozens of nations.
Read MoreTrabajadores, the official weekly organ of the only Cuban labor federation, published on Monday a report that outlined the words of the Second Secretary of the Communist Party, Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, saying that “a decrease in the availability of fuel is envisioned.” The possible collapse of the Maduro government in Venezuela could have a major effect on Cuba.
Read MoreNicolas Maduro appears frequently flanked by soldiers: officers in red berets, paratroopers, pilots in green uniforms. The social networks of the president of Venezuela are full of photos and videos of him with the Armed Forces. The president needs them if he wants to stay in office.
Read MoreNayib Bukele, 37, was elected president of El Salvador on Sunday with 53%, handily defeating his opponents from the two main parties that have dominated the country’s political scene for over 25 years. The former mayor of San Salvador beat out candidates from the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (31%) and the leftist Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation (FMLN) which had only 14%.
Read MorePeru began the year with 11 femicides in January, despite progress made in laws and statutes and mass demonstrations against gender-based violence. This situation is also seen in other Latin American countries, raising the need to delve deeper into the causes of the phenomenon.
Read MoreSalvadorans will elect a new president this Sunday, with Nayib Bukele, candidate of the GANA-New Ideas party, as the favorite obtaining in pre-election polls between 40.4% and 55.1%. The former mayor of San Salvador for the FMLN, expelled from that party in 2017, tries to break with the Arena-FMLN bipartisanship
Read MoreVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has called on the reserve of the country’s Military Police, the Bolivarian National Guard, to carry out new exercises less than 24 hours before an international ultimatum expires to declare new elections in the Latin American country, reported Europa Press.
Read MoreThe protests in Venezuela demanding an end to the presidency of Nicolás Maduro in the last 10 days of January, whose soundtrack was the sound of banging on pots and pans in working-class neighborhoods, had a high human cost: more than 40 deaths, dozens wounded and about a thousand detainees, including 100 women and 90 children under 18.
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal is reporting the US-backed effort to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is just the first step in the Trump administration’s plan to reshape Latin America—with Cuba next on its radar, reports Democracy Now on Friday.
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