Caracas, Venezuela
Campaign begins: Candidates officially launched their presidential campaigns this week in the shadow of the late President Hugo Chávez. Acting President Nicolás Maduro highlighted his status as the populist firebrand’s chosen successor by holding a rally in Chávez’s home state of Barinas. “We will not let the people down, and we will go to the very end to build socialism,” he said. His chief opponent, Henrique Capriles, is focusing his run on the country’s high murder rate, and said the government had not put forward “a single proposal to defeat violence and bring peace to Venezuela.” Maduro has a 14 percent edge in the polls.
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Buenos Aires
Soccer star held: Police this week arrested the captain of one of Argentina’s most prestigious soccer teams and charged him with aiding and abetting a wanted murderer. Pablo Migliore, the San Lorenzo club’s goalkeeper, was detained on the pitch after his team lost a home game; police had earlier sealed off the stadium. Migliore, who played for the Boca Juniors team until 2008, is accused of helping to hide Maximiliano Mazzaro, who was the second-in-command of a notoriously violent Boca Juniors fan club and is wanted by police for a 2011 murder. Migliore has refused to testify and remains in jail. San Lorenzo’s most famous supporter is Pope Francis, who was pictured on Easter Sunday holding a club T-shirt given to him by a fellow fan.
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