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AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo Far-right Congressman Jair Bolsonaro won nearly half the votes in Brazil’s first-round presidential election. Bolsonaro won 46.3 percent of valid ballots, far ahead of leftist Fernando Haddad’s 29 percent but short of the outright majority needed to avoid a runoff election. The two will face-off in a second round of voting on October […]
The president of Mexico’s Senate smiled into the camera and flipped the lid of his red Tupperware. No costly expense account meals for me, proclaimed Martí Batres, a senior ally of President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, as he took to social media to challenge legislators to embrace austerity by bringing their own packed lunches. In […]
As resistance to the Trump administration moves from Twitter to the streets, many on the right are anticipating that protests will turn violent. Trump’s aides, they say, should arm themselves. Last weekend saw chanting protesters camped outside Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s house; White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders booted from a Virginia restaurant with […]
German police have arrested at least 40 people in Berlin at a radical left march while dozens of right-wing activists squared off with police in the central state of Thuringia. Police used pepper spray to disperse protesters who hurled fireworks and bottles. A left-wing march in Berlin’s Kreuzberg quarter, dubbed the “Revolutionary May 1 Demonstration,” […]
AFP Quito (AFP) – Exit polls indicated leftist candidate Lenin Moreno was leading in the first round of Ecuador’s presidential election on Sunday. Moreno, 63, won with between 36 and 43 percent of the vote, according to the polls. If official results give him more than 40 percent and a 10-point lead over his nearest […]
