Latin America

Nicaragua: Power and Anarchy

Gioconda Belli: “The dictatorship Daniel Ortega is reestablishing in Nicaragua is not like Somoza’s. What he is repeating is the formula that failed in the eighties, this time with a liberal economy and illusory freedom of the press enjoyed by only a few media.”

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Covert US Program against Cuba Revealed

A covert US government program to send young Latin Americans to Cuba for purposes of political subversion was made public by Associated Press on Sunday. According to the news agency, the project by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) sent youth from Venezuela, Costa Rica and Peru starting in 2009 to Cuba “in the hope of encouraging a rebellion.”

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Tropical Storm Bertha Nears Puerto Rico

Tropical Storm Bertha continued on its course to the west-northwest and is expected to touch ground or very close to the southwestern part of Puerto Rico on Saturday afternoon, reports the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

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This Week in Palestine: Events from Gaza July 26 – August 1

Welcome to this Week in Palestine – Gaza Special Coverage, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for July 26th, to the August 1st, 2014. This week Israeli attacks cased a Humanitarian ceasefire to collapse. The death toll in Gaza has reached over 1,493 with no end in sight to Israeli attacks on the coastal region.

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Argentina Faces Risk of Default

Argentina has reached the last stretch of a decisive economic and political road, facing the end of the term established for the payment of an international debt and a thorny litigation in the United States, DPA reported on Sunday.

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