Worldcrunch Today, Dec. 18: Nigeria Kids Freed, Putin s Laugh, Epstein French Arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin s TV address on Dec. 17 - Sergei Bobylev/TASS/ZUMA 2019-12-18
Welcome to Friday, where the hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian students have been freed, Russia has been banned from the Olympics and French police have made a high-profile arrest in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking probe. We also follow Yemen s itinerant honey producers as they (and their bees) dodge the stings of the country s ongoing civil war.
SPOTLIGHT: THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL OF DIGITAL DEMOCRACY
In a time of public impatience and online mobilization, Latin American governments are feeding frustrations with an outdated approach to political leadership, writes Gonzalo Sarasqueta, a lecturer at the ESAN business school in Lima, in America Economia.