Mexico election heats up as two women vie for presidency
Campaigning officially began Friday for elections likely to produce Mexico's first woman president - a nation with macho culture.
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Campaigning officially began Friday for elections likely to produce Mexico's first woman president - a nation with macho culture.
Ex-Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is accused of helping move tons of cocaine to the U.S.
Witnesses, including former drug traffickers turned collaborators, said Hernández received bribes to fund his political rise, enrich himself and manipulate elections.
When you look at Latin American history, the way in which the Salvadoran leader has won his re-election bid and amassed power isn’t much different from how several other Latin American autocrats have operated. Batista, Somoza, Trujillo, Fujimori, Ortega and Chávez are just some examples of strongmen from the past century
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele is all but guaranteed a resounding victory in elections Sunday, with his no-holds-barred war on gangs having earned him approval ratings hovering around 90 percent.- 'A bit of peace' - Bukele has said that gangs were responsible for some 120,000 deaths since the end of El Salvador's civil war in 1992.