Tag: rodrigo
Rodrigo Paz Pereira wins Bolivia’s presidential runoff marking a new shift to the right
Sunday’s election marked the first time since 2005 that no candidate from Evo Morales’ Mas party was on the ballot Centre-right senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira, 58, won Bolivia’s presidential runoff on Sunday and will be the country’s next president, marking a shift to the right after nearly 20 years of dominance by the leftist Movimiento…
Monday briefing: Is Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest a sign of the ICC’s strength or its limitations?
Good morning. Last Tuesday, chaos erupted at Manila’s main airport as authorities arrested the Philippines’ 79-year-old former president Rodrigo Duterte, who had arrived from Hong Kong. An arrest warrant issued in secret by the international criminal court (ICC) accused him of crimes against humanity for his alleged involvement in killings during his brutal “war on…