| The power of truth-telling about Venezuela Posted: 08 Jun 2018 12:47 PM PDT ![The power of truth-telling about Venezuela]( "The power of truth-telling about Venezuela") A majority of nations in Latin America took an extraordinary step this week to solve a crisis in Venezuela that is literally spilling across their borders. At a meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS), they stated that a May 20 presidential election in Venezuela lacked legitimacy because it violated so many democratic norms. In effect, countries representing most of Latin America's population declared that President Nicolás Maduro is not the legitimate leader of Venezuela.
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| 'Hands off our president': Why Zuma's charges haven't nixed his support Posted: 08 Jun 2018 12:05 PM PDT !['Hands off our president': Why Zuma's charges haven't nixed his support]( "'Hands off our president': Why Zuma's charges haven't nixed his support") In a cramped courtroom Friday morning, former South African president Jacob Zuma sat in the dock and listened quietly as the teams of lawyers in front of him asked to postpone his corruption trial for six more weeks to finish preparing their cases. For many South Africans, however, this simple moment was also a deeply symbolic one. For some, watching their former president appear in court to answer to charges of corruption, money-laundering, and racketeering is proof positive that their young democracy is capable of holding its leaders responsible for their misdeeds.
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| With few choices, the poor take risk in volcano's path Posted: 08 Jun 2018 11:36 AM PDT ![With few choices, the poor take risk in volcano's path]( "With few choices, the poor take risk in volcano's path") Amanda Santizo sits on the edge of a foam mattress where her elderly mother is sleeping on Tuesday afternoon. The volcano's sudden eruption left an estimated 109 people dead and another 200 or more are still missing. "There are many homes located close to rivers, close to ravines, on mountain slopes.
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| Trump at G7: Is discord over declining US-led system just a family quarrel? Posted: 08 Jun 2018 10:37 AM PDT ![Trump at G7: Is discord over declining US-led system just a family quarrel?]( "Trump at G7: Is discord over declining US-led system just a family quarrel?") Just about everyone agrees that the post-World-War-II order of institutions and alliances that the United States built and guided over seven decades is under siege and threatened. It's a system of economic and security ties that expanded global prosperity and spread Western values of democratic governance and human rights around the world. For President Trump – who just last week slapped tariffs on steel and aluminum imports on five of the other six countries whose leaders he'll be sitting down with in Quebec (the US already hit the sixth, Japan, with tariffs earlier this year) – the fault lies largely with the allies and partners who have profited from the economic and security order at America's expense.
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