Despite entering the Fifth Summit of the Americas in an atmosphere ripe for confrontation, the weekend-long meeting turned out to be extraordinarily cordial. Relations between the United States and the Latin American left remain strained, but President Obama’s friendly (if brief) exchanges with Presidents Chávez, Morales, and Ortega indicate a change in the tenor of [...]
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Julio Cobos, Argentine Vice President and likely presidential candidate for the 2011 elections, was welcomed back to the centrist Unión Cívica Radical on Friday, April 10. The UCR is Argentina’s strongest opposition party. A career politician with the Radical Party, Cobos joined Peronist Cristina Fernández de Kircher’s campaign as Vice President in 2007, prompting the UCR [...]
Former President Fujimori, 70, has been found guilty of human rights violations by the Peruvian Courts. According to the BBC: Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has been found guilty of ordering death-squad killings and kidnappings in the 1990s. The court sentenced Fujimori to 25 years in prison. For background on Peru’s human rights situation and the violence [...] |
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