Tag: Brazil

Beltway Confidential

Maybe you laugh at Bitcoin, but they don’t in Latin America

David Freddoso · November 30, 2016 4:15 pm

The deaths are the second and third since Oct. 1, the start of the 2017 fiscal year, putting ICE on pace to beat last year's record-high 10 total deaths. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Two illegal immigrants in ICE custody died over the weekend

Anna Giaritelli · November 30, 2016 12:55 am

Obama's policy of benign neglect may be paying unexpected dividends by forcing Latin America to be more assertive. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

The only place where ‘leading from behind’ has worked

Alvaro Vargas Llosa · October 12, 2016 7:00 am

Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos votes in a referendum to decide whether or not to support the peace deal he signed with rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, in Bogota, Colombia. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Beltway Confidential

Latin American voters spurn the left

Michael Barone · October 4, 2016 2:39 pm

Ryan Lochte attacked on stage at ‘Dancing With The Stars’

Anna Giaritelli · September 13, 2016 3:12 am

The State Department recommended Ryan Lochte cooperate with Brazilian officials. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Rio police charge Lochte with filing bogus police report

Anna Giaritelli · August 25, 2016 11:35 pm

The State Department encouraged U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte to comply with a pending Brazilian request to return to Rio and testify about his debunked claim that he was robbed during the Olympics. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

State Dept. encourages Lochte to comply with Brazilian authorities

Pete Kasperowicz · August 25, 2016 6:56 pm

National Security

Brazilian official: Hold U.S. swimmers accountable

Anna Giaritelli · August 18, 2016 7:36 pm

Two American Olympic swimmers, Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz, were taken off their flight from Rio de Janeiro to the U.S. on Wednesday after a Brazilian judge issued an order preventing them from leaving the country before their robbery case was resolved. (AP Photo/John Amis)

Brazil police remove U.S. swimmers from plane

Anna Giaritelli · August 18, 2016 2:29 am

Police in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, said Tuesday they have been unable to verify claims U.S. Olympian Rio Lochte and three other swimmers were robbed at gunpoint over the weekend. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Rio police lack evidence that Lochte, swimmers were robbed

Anna Giaritelli · August 17, 2016 1:22 am

An intelligent nationalist can respect the strengths of other nationalisms, while preferring his own. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Nationalism is not necessarily a bad thing

Michael Barone · August 10, 2016 10:54 pm

A Saudi Arabian judo athlete refused to participate in her first-round match at the Summer Olympics in Rio Sunday, reportedly to avoid an Israeli competitor in the next round. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Saudi Olympic fighter refuses to compete against Israeli

Anna Giaritelli · August 8, 2016 9:54 pm