JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Weeks of nationwide Gen-Z protests in Madagascar sparked by power and water shortages escalated and led to a military coup that forced President Andry Rajoelina into exile. Army ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Diminutive Norita Cortiñas stood less than 5 feet tall — about a foot shorter than Argentina’s dictator, Gen. Jorge Videla, who ...

Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho joins us to discuss his Oscar-nominated film, The Secret Agent, and the history that inspired it. The film is set in the northern Brazilian city of Recife in ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Ex-military officers who served in Argentina's brutal dictatorship and their families staged a rare rally on Saturday to push for the release of fellow officers imprisoned ...

Nearly 50 years have passed since Argentina’s former president Isabel Martínez de Perón was overthrown by a civic-military coup on March 24, 1976. A military dictatorship led by Jorge Videla, Emilio ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Thousands marched through Buenos Aires on Tuesday to mark 50 years since the 1976 military coup that ushered in one of Latin America’s bloodiest dictatorships. An estimated ...

REEL TO REAL Former professor Marcelo (Wagner Moura) and a group of political exiles are resisting the State’s greedy and punitive reach. (Photo courtesy of Neon Films) The bodies of innocent citizens ...

Activists held a demonstration Tuesday in downtown Rio de Janeiro to remember the victims of Brazil’s military government, marking the anniversary of the 1964 military coup. Activists gather in Rio to ...

Centre of the American Experiment President John Hinderaker says that Iran will be a military dictatorship under the control ...

After decades of a gradual, deliberate ascent through the Myanmar military, Min Aung Hlaing was appointed joint chief of staff of the army, navy, and air force, the military’s third-highest position, ...