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Paraguay's disappeared: A dictator's shadow is a roadblock for justice, but a few keep up the fight

Jan. 27, 2025 01:38 AM EST

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — Despite being ousted in 1989 after a 35-year reign of terror, during which 20,000 people were tortured, executed or disappeared, some Paraguayans feel as if Gen. Alfredo Stroessner never truly left. “This is probably the only country in which the...

Nigeria is admitted as a partner country of the BRICS bloc

Jan. 18, 2025 05:27 AM EST

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria has been admitted as a “partner country” of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, according to Brazil, the group’s chair. BRICS was formed by Brazil, Russia, India and China in 2009, with South Africa added in 2010, as a counterweight to the...

Bolivian judge orders the arrest of former President Morales in sex abuse case

Jan. 17, 2025 16:10 PM EST

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A Bolivian judge on Friday issued a warrant for the arrest of former President Evo Morales after he failed to appear in court over a case alleging that he sexually abused a minor. Morales, 65, is alleged to have had a child with a teenage girl in 2016 — a...

Jimmy Carter sought to expand democracy worldwide long after he left the White House

Dec. 31, 2024 00:09 AM EST

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Amid everything else on his desk — the Iran hostage crisis, domestic economic turmoil, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and a grueling 1980 reelection fight — President Jimmy Carter elevated the independence of a country in southern Africa as a top agenda item. ...

Bolivia's former leader Evo Morales seeks a political comeback from his stronghold in the tropics

Dec. 29, 2024 01:06 AM EST

LAUCA Ñ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia's former leader Evo Morales has a campaign pitch for 2025 that has worked elsewhere: Other politicians of recent years have brought you nothing but misery. It's time for a return to the past. His supporters are looking to Morales for a rescue from...

AP PHOTOS: A river route for food and crime: The dual nature of a major South American waterway

Dec. 27, 2024 00:13 AM EST

VILLA GOBERNADOR GALVEZ, Argentina (AP) — From its headwaters in Brazil, the Paraguay River flows hundreds of miles (kilometers) south to where it joins the Parana River to form a single 2,100-mile (3,400-kilometer) waterway that carries much of the agricultural and mineral wealth of South...

Bolivian prosecutors seek the arrest of former President Morales in sexual abuse case

Dec. 16, 2024 17:49 PM EST

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Prosecutors in Bolivia on Monday sought the arrest of former President Evo Morales in connection to a sexual abuse investigation involving his alleged fathering of a child with a 15-year-old girl. The arrest warrant, which still must be approved by a judge,...

Joy and wonder: Between the bumps of the world, exuberance shone through in 2024

Dec. 16, 2024 14:02 PM EST

She jumps, her eyes closed, and she grins — this little girl surrounded by gang violence in her own neighborhood in Haiti. The jump rope game she is playing brings out an exuberance in her that the conditions around her cannot squelch. Around the planet, so many human beings — in...

Bolivia's divisive popular vote for senior judges offers lessons for Mexico

Dec. 15, 2024 15:40 PM EST

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Campaigning in Bolivia for Sunday's judicial election may be strictly forbidden, but look closer on the streets of the capital La Paz and you’ll find that some candidates have sneakily plastered their faces on packs of corn puffs and others have slipped subtle slogans...