The Organization of American States has announced it will hold an emergency meeting to discuss whether to suspend Venezuela for violating the OAS Charter. OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro said Tuesday that Venezuela had suffered “grave alterations of democratic order.”
Read MoreThe Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro, called for an urgent meeting of the Permanent Council to discuss the situation in Venezuela, invoking the Democratic Charter.
Read MorePedro Alvarez didn’t have balloons. Unlike the rest of the kids on the street who were throwing water balloons, Pedro could only find his grandfather’s linen handkerchief to play with. He thought he could catch water in the piece of cloth and throw it like the other kids did with the rubber balloons. To his surprise, the water ran right through the handkerchief. Unbeknownst to him, at only five years old, Pedro had filtered the water that came out of the faucet. Nowadays, he does the same thing; only now, instead of linen, he uses nanotechnology.
Read MoreAt its annual meeting in Dallas, ExxonMobil shareholders rejected a series of resolutions Wednesday calling for climate action, including resolutions backed by CalPERS, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, as well as New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and the Church of England.
Read MoreA key figure in Brazil’s interim government has resigned after explosive new transcripts revealed how he plotted to oust President Dilma Rousseff in order to end a corruption investigation that was targeting him.
Read MoreRepresentatives of rural communities and environmentalists in Nicaragua today urged the judiciary to intervene in support of the repeal of a controversial law authorizing the building of an interoceanic a canal in the south of the country.
Read MoreThe Sandinista Party Assembly announced on Friday that the Party will hold a Congress on June 4th. On that day the candidacy of Commander Daniel Ortega for a third consecutive term will be formalized, although his selection of a running mate remains unknown.
Read MoreThe communities located in the Rama-Kriol territory in southeastern Nicaragua assure that they weren’t consulted regarding the interoceanic canal project, and don’t approve the position of their communal government’s president to lease out their lands.
Read MoreI first arrived in Angola in the late 1980s as a cadet of Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR). This time, nearly three decades later, I landed to help my father in his retirement and repatriation to Cuba after having worked in Angola for 16 years.(56 photos)
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro met today in Havana with Bolivian President Evo Morales. After leaving Cuba, Morales went to Caracas to meet with embattled President Nicolas Maduro.
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