The United States and Russia have proposed opposing draft resolutions at the UN Security Council as the leadership crisis in Venezuela deepens, reports Democracy Now on Monday. The US is calling for elections in Venezuela and for international aid deliveries to be allowed to enter the country. Russia criticizes foreign intervention in Venezuelan affairs.
Read MoreUS sanctions to Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), that already include Alba of Nicaragua (Albanisa), have also reached the Banco Corporativo SA (Bancorp) and all majority-owned subsidiaries, announced the Deputy Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere Affairs, Kimberly Breier on Friday, Feb. 8th.
Read MoreThe battle over aid supplies to crisis-hit Venezuela was about saving lives, the country’s self-declared interim president Juan Guaido said on Sunday. The other president, Nicolas Maduro, has made it clear he will not let the aid through, dismissing it as a plot to stage a US military intervention in Venezuela. He also denies any humanitarian crisis.
Read MoreDictators invariably rediscover the supposed principle of non-intervention when it suits them. That is what Augusto Pinochet did in Chile and Fidel Castro in Cuba. In the current case, the mantra of nonintervention also clashes with the reality that foreign powers are already intervening in Venezuela.
Read MoreSalvadoran farmer Lorena Mejia opens an incubator and monitors the temperature of the eggs, which will soon provide her with more birds and eggs as the chickens hatch and grow up. Mejía is one of the beneficiaries of a project that seeks to offer productive ventures to women who, like her, have been deported from Mexico or the United States.
Read MoreBrazilian President Jair Bolsonaro remains in hospital 10 days after having had surgery, with signs that he has developed a pneumonia infection, the news portal G1 quoted his doctors as saying. Doctors at the Sao Paulo’s Albert Einstein hospital performed surgery to remove a colostomy bag Bolsonaro was given after being stabbed at a campaign rally in September.
Read MoreThe European Union on Thursday warned of chaos and violence in Venezuela and called for “an international initiative” to achieve a peaceful solution to the country’s crisis. Maduro denies there is any crisis in Venezuela and regards the humanitarian aid as a pretext for a US military intervention.
Read MoreIn recent years Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have experienced escalated climate change impacts from hurricanes, tropical storms and other weather-related events thanks to global warming of 1.0 ° Celsius (C) above pre-industrial levels. And it has had adverse effects on particularly vulnerable countries and communities.
Read MoreIn Honduras, prosecutors have presented evidence charging former energy company executive, Roberto David Castillo Mejía, a former military intelligence officer, with masterminding the murder of environmental activist Berta Cáceres, who was shot dead in her home in March of 2016.
Read MoreFormer Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was handed a second prison sentence for corruption on Wednesday, reported dpa news. Judge Gabriela Hardt sentenced Lula to 12 years and 11 months in prison for graft and money laundering. Lula was jailed in April on another 12-year sentence for related corruption.
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