The new Venezuelan National Assembly was installed today with a broad opposition majority for the first time in 16 years, with a commitment to seek the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro and approve an amnesty for political prisoners.
Read MoreThe Venezuelan opposition is finalizing the details of the “Amnesty Law” which it plans to enact after Tuesday when the new National Assembly is sworn in, reported dpa news.
Read MoreThe once-imprisoned U.S. activist Lori Berenson has returned home nearly two decades after being tried and convicted of collaborating with the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement in Peru. Berenson is a former student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who left school to become an activist in the 1980s in El Salvador during the Reagan years and then moved on to Peru.
Read MoreRussian President Vladimir V. Putin sent New Year’s greetings to three Latin American presidents with whom he has established good working relations, Cuba, Venezuela and Brazil.
Read MoreToday we reproduce the analysis on Nicaragua and its leaders made by the team of Envio magazine, now in its 34th year of publication.
Read MoreA technical meeting with representatives from Central American countries today reached a possible solution to the crisis triggered by a wave of Cuban immigrants seeking to reach the USA, of which 8,000 are stranded in Costa Rica.
Read MoreVenezuelan political leader Henry Ramos reiterated today that the opposition is committed to present to the country a constitutional solution next year to bring about a change of government. Cuba receives all of its imported oil from Venezuela under a highly favorable trade agreement that the opposition would like see ended or renegotiated.
Read MorePope Francis today urged the governments of Central America to seek a solution to the situation of the thousands of Cuban migrants stranded in the region, reported dpa news.
Read MoreNo other issue in Cuba is as thorny and worrisome these days as the adverse results faced by Chavismo in Venezuela’s recent parliamentary elections. Through Telesur and Cuban television, Cubans received the news of the super-majority secured by the opposition with great surprise and concern. For me, personally, it wasn’t much of a surprise at all.
Read MoreA meeting of immigration officials from the countries of the Central American Integration System (SICA) and other countries in the Mesoamerican region ended in Mexico today without concrete results to resolve the crisis caused by several thousand Cuban migrants stranded in the isthmus.
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