The Venezuelan National Assembly called the Supreme Court decision to assume legislative functions and grant President Nicolas Maduro “all powers”, as if were a king, the equivalent of a coup in the oil rich country.
Read MoreTwenty countries of the Organization of American States (OAS) called today at an extraordinary meeting of the Permanent Council of that forum to seek ways “in the shortest possible time” to help solve the political, economic, social and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.
Read MoreBolivian President Evo Morales will travel to Cuba on Wednesday to undergo surgery on his throat, health minister Ariana Campero said on Thursday in La Paz.
Read MoreVenezuela is experiencing a crisis which has forced its inhabitants to rethink the way they spend money in their own country in recent years. Amid new conditions, having access to basic goods which used to form part of their daily lives before, such as food, sports events and even safe sex, has become a luxury and among the less fortunate, a distant memory.
Read MoreAlmagro’s Double Standards with Venezuela and Nicaragua. Accuses Maduro of violating the Inter-American Diplomatic Charter, while praising agreement with Ortega
Read MoreThe international community hems and haws about how to exert more effective pressure and collective sanctions on the ever more authoritarian Venezuelan regime. The democratic opposition can’t seem to unite around a common strategy to force the government back on the democratic and electoral path. Meanwhile, the regime of Nicolas Maduro, entrenched in power and corruption, dedicates itself to smothering Venezuelan civil society even further.
Read More“The facts leave no room for doubt: Venezuela violates all the articles of the Inter-American Democratic Charter,” said the Organization of American States Secretary General Luis Almagro said in the document.
Read More“It wasn’t because they didn’t like how the food tasted.” A story of abuse by Guatemalan authorities that led to an uprising of teenage girls on International Women’s Day that ended with at least 37 burnt to death at a government Home for Children.
Read MoreThe number of teenage girls who died as a result of the fire which broke out on Wednesday at a government -run shelter in Guatemala, has risen to 34 while the country officially begins a three day national mourning period.
Read MorePresident Evo Morales returned to Bolivia yesterday, after receiving medical treatment in Cuba. The leader announced on Monday, in Havana, that he would return to Havana in early April for a small surgical intervention because of a nodule in his throat.
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