Former Uruguayan President José Mujica has passed away at the age of 90. Born in 1935 in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, Mujica became active in the 1960s and 1970s as a member of the leftist guerrilla group Tupamaros. During that time, he was imprisoned multiple times, and under the military dictatorship, he endured nearly 15 years of severe torture and solitary confinement. After Uruguay transitioned to democracy in 1985, he was released and went on to establish the lef

Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party has introduced a bill aimed at restricting the activities of independent media outlets and NGOs that receive foreign funding. The proposed legislation would impose heavy fines on these organizations, ban them from receiving donations, and potentially prohibit their operations altogether. While the government has named the bill the “Law on the Transparency of Public Life,” critics argue it is effectively a crackdown on progressive, independent med