Battisti Captured in Bolivia After Fleeing Brazil in December
After more than forty years as a fugitive, thirteen of those living in Brazil, Italy’s Cesare Battisti, was captured in...
January 14, 2019Topic
Cesare Battisti
Opinion: Brazil’s Lamentable Lame Duck Presidency
Brazil’s last quarter 2018 saw the election of Jair Bolsonaro, who began immediately to act as if he were already...
December 27, 2018
Brazilian Judge Orders Arrest of Italian Fugitive Cesare Battisti
Brazilian Federal Supreme Court Justice (STF) Luiz Fux ordered on Thursday the immediate arrest of Italian national, Cesare Battisti, sentenced...
December 14, 2018
Brazil’s Bolsonaro to Authorize Extradition of Italy’s Cesare Battisti
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – President-elect of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, said he told Italian...
November 6, 2018
Convicted Italian Activist Arrested for Seven Hours in Brazil
Cesare Battisti escaped an Italian jail in 1981, and after living in France and Mexico, arrived in Brazil, in 2004.
March 13, 2015
The Curmudgeon on The Political Thicket
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Mr. Justice Frankfurter, long ago, exhorted his colleagues on the U.S....
January 4, 2011