Death Sentences Commuted for 3 Americans Over Failed Congo Coup

Three American citizens who were sentenced to death over a failed coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of Congo have had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment, according to a spokeswoman for the Central African country’s president. The three Americans…

How Oscar-Nominated ‘I’m Still Here’ May Hold Brazil’s Military Accountable

“I’m Still Here” — the Oscar best picture nominee about the murder of a Brazilian congressman by the country’s military dictatorship — concludes with a single sentence that delivers a gut punch of historical reality: The five soldiers charged in…