Suriname election: can pandemic help outlaw leader get away with murder?

Coronavirus has stalled opposition's momentum against president who was recently found guilty of mass murder as country heads into an election

With the economy in tatters, corruption scandals piling up - and a recent mass murder conviction to add to his previous guilty verdicts for drug trafficking, it seemed until recently that president Desi Bouterse's 40-year grip on power in Suriname was coming to an end.

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