Marxist leader sworn in as president of country with 22M people
Marxist politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake officially entered office as the president of Sri Lanka on Monday. Dissanayake, 55, defeated President Ranil Wickremesinghe, whose party was accused of leading the country into an economic crisis. The new leader’s party is the People’s Liberation Front, a Marxist group that launched two armed insurrections during the 1970s and … Read more