BUCHAREST, Romania — Six people suspected of colluding with Russia to plot a coup against the Romanian government have been detained, according to police in the European Union and NATO-member country. Romania’s anti-organized crime agency, DIICOT, detained all six on Wednesday for forming a criminal group, which was initially set up in 2023 and had … Read more
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged FORM PRESIDENT JAIR BOLSONARO with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, in a plot that included a plan to poison his successor and current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and kill a Supreme Court judge. Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet … Read more
History is a playlist crackling with fire and intrigue in “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” The film’s heady 2½ hours are as thick with detail as a graduate seminar yet bustle like a TikTok video, a deft and nearly breathless archival exposé that centers on the January 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, less than a … Read more
