In his last State of the Union address today, US President Barack Obama asked Congress to lift the embargo on Cuba to “consolidate our leadership and credibility in the hemisphere,” reported dpa news.
Read MoreOn Saturday, January 9, hundreds of peasants rallied in La Fonseca, Nueva Guinea, demanding that the law authorizing the construction of Nicaragua’s interoceanic canal, better known as Law 840, be repealed.
Read MoreThe Mexican government has moved toward extraditing drug lord Joaquín “Chapo” Guzmán to the United States after his recapture in Mexico on Friday. Guzmán’s drug cartel is said to be one of the most powerful in the world.
Read MoreGerman Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, met in Havana with Cuban President Raul Castro on Friday, to close his three-day visit to the Caribbean island.
Read MoreDuring U.S.-Backed Dirty War Democracy Now HAVANA TIMES – In a stunning development, Guatemalan police have arrested 18 ex-military leaders
Read MoreBy order of the new president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Henry Ramos, numerous posters and large pictures of the late president Hugo Chavez were ordered removed today from the legislature.
Read MoreAs President Obama takes executive action on gun control without going through Congress, could closing Guantánamo be next? In January 2009, Obama ordered the closure of the Guantánamo Bay military prison in one of his first executive actions. Seven years later, 107 prisoners are still there.
Read MoreThe 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.
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