Klas Lundström is an investigative reporter and writer based in Stockholm.
Sweden long rejected militarism, even offering government funding to peace movements. Yet since Russiaâs invasion of Ukraine, the political mood has changed abruptly, with a witch hunt launched against activists who oppose the countryâs embrace of NATO.
Prabowo Subianto first made his name as an Indonesian military leader trying to crush East Timorâs push for independence. Today he is president â and his government is fighting another colonial war in West Papua.
January 15 marks 50 years since the Alvor Agreement promised Angolaâs independence from Portugal. Yet the new state was doomed to be a Cold War battleground, with Washington planners seeking to avenge their defeat in Vietnam.
Hondurasâs former president Juan Orlando HernĂĄndez has been jailed in the US for drug trafficking. But the narco-state he ran was a product of US foreign policy and of the US-backed coup against Manuel Zelayaâs left-wing government.
Itâs been 70 years since the CIA-backed coup in Guatemala ousted President Jacobo Ărbenz. He was punished for standing up to Chiquita â but today, the firm might finally be held to account for its ties to a far-right paramilitary group in Colombia.
More than three decades since dictator Alfredo Stroessner was forced from office, his Partido Colorado still runs Paraguay. Its leader Horacio Cartes fuses mafia and political power â and is stepping up his authoritarian control.
Fifty years since Portugalâs democratic revolution, the far-right Chega party is on the rise. Itâs exploiting disaffection with mainstream parties â but also nostalgia for the days when dictator AntĂłnio de Oliveira Salazar ruled a Portuguese empire.
In 1978, an Argentine military junta that murdered tens of thousands hosted the World Cup and got a chance to refurbish their image. We talk to a prisoner who watched the game with her torturers â a World Cup seen from hell.