Cuba’s Buena Vista Social Club band led by singer Omara Portuondo returns to Santiago de Chile for a concert on May 3rd.. The photographer brings us these images from an earlier presentation of Buena Vista in Santiago de Chile. (7 photos)
Read MoreThe Venezuelan electoral campaign was short but intense. Hours of speeches left dozens of quotes by the leading candidates: Interim president Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Henrique Capriles, who face off tomorrow to determine the successor of Hugo Chavez. Here’s a selection of some of the phrases voiced during the campaign.
Read MoreThe elections have been marked by atypical events, starting with Chavez’s death and followed by the organization of polling in just over 30 days by the National Electoral Council (CNE), and the realization of “blitz campaigning” over a mere 10-day period.
Read MoreForeign ministers of South American countries affected by conflicts with transnational corporations will meet in Quito in late April. The meeting will be a “starting point” for bringing together countries affected by legal actions of tremendously powerful transnational companies.
Read More“I swear to you Chavez, my vote’s for Maduro!” With these words and other songs in support of Chavista candidate Nicolas Maduro, a red tide overflowed seven avenues in Caracas. If anyone still doubted the way the Venezuelan people support their interim president, they couldn’t have after having seen this massive march.
Read MoreUruguay’s Chamber of Deputies passed a new law on Wednesday night authorizing same-sex marriages. The initiative was considered a priority by the ruling Frente Amplio Party and was supported by 71 votes out of the 92 deputies present. The bill is now awaiting enactment by the nation’s executive office.
Read MoreTens of thousands of immigrants from around the country joined allies from the labor movement and beyond to “Rally for Citizenship” Wednesday in Washington, D.C. The demonstrators urged Congress to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws and provide a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented residents.
Read MoreAmira Hass, the only Jewish-Israeli journalist to have spent almost 20 years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank, recently suffered a torrent of hate mail and calls for her prosecution after she wrote an article defending the right of Palestinians to resist violent occupation.
Read MoreSuccessful cooperation between Cuban and US authorities led Tuesday to the end of a kidnap drama involving a US couple and their two children. Joshua and Sharyn Hakken and their two young children, Chase and Cole, arrived by boat to Cuba on April 7 to the Hemingway Marina on the west side of Havana.
Read MoreInterim president Nicolas Maduro warned that if the Venezuelans don’t vote for him in the April 14 elections, a curse will fall on them. This caught the attention in the media, especially foreigners, but it’s nothing new in politics of that Caribbean country, where religious and mystical references are a firm part of the culture.
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