When the news of repeated break-ins at her parents′ house reached Parastou Forouhar in January, the artist, who lives in Germany, travelled to Iran to deal with the situation in person. The house that had belonged to her parents, political activists Daryoush Forouhar and Parvaneh Eskandari, before they were murdered by the secret service, had been completely vandalised. An
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva presents the second round as a choice between democracy and the abyss. He has won the support of two of the most important candidates from the first round and a number of traditional political leaders. Now he seeks to mobilise the support from below that he needs to defeat the incumbent president.
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Bogota (Prensa Latina) The political advance of the left-wing Historical Pact ticket of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez to the election runoff in Colombia predicts intense days in the campaign to reach the country's presidency.