Bolivia should have an exit to the Pacific Ocean, wrote Fidel Castro in a letter to President Evo Morales over the weekend, reported Cubadebate.cu. Bolivia became landlocked after losing part of its territory to Chile in their war back in 1879.
Read MoreThe eyes of the financial world are on the small Mediterranean island of Cyprus today. The government of Cyprus has brokered a last-ditch $13 billion bailout deal with European officials to stave off the collapse of its banking sector. Under the deal, all bank deposits above approximately $130,000 will be frozen and used to help pay off the banking sector’s debts.
Read MoreA shocking new report by The Guardian and BBC Arabic details how the United States armed and trained Iraqi death squads that ran torture centers. It is a story that stretches from the U.S.-backed death squads in Central America during the 1980s to the imprisoned Army whistleblower Bradley Manning.
Read MoreIraq War veteran Tomas Young was left paralyzed in a 2004 attack in Iraq. Released from medical care three months later, Young returned home to become an active member in Iraq Veterans Against the War. He recently announced that he will stop his medicine and nourishment, which comes in the form of liquid through a feeding tube — a decision which will hasten his death.
Read MoreFour Cuban women remain on a hunger strike that began on Sunday in the prison where they are detained in the Bahamas. Their protest is aimed at not being sent back to Cuba, reports Diario de Cuba.
Read MoreVenezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said that for the moment that country’s communications channel for improving relations with the United States remain suspended. The talks were taking place after a series of clashes between two countries that took place during the administration of the late President Hugo Chavez.
Read MoreInvestigative journalist Dahr Jamail reported for Democracy Now! throughout the early stages of the U.S. invasion of Iraq 10 years ago. Now with Al Jazeera, Jamail has just returned from Iraq once again, finding what he calls a “failed state” living in “utter devastation.”
Read MoreRecently I was reading the national press of my country (Venezuela) and I found a brief interview with Yoani Sanchez, the ill-termed ““writer feared by the Castro government” (though I really doubt that the Castros feel daunted by her). In this interview, though, she was talking about Venezuela.
Read MoreCuban blogger Yoani Sanchez paid a visit to the US Senate on Monday at the invitation of Florida Sen. Bill Nelson and other lawmakers. Following the meeting Nelson made a request to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to call for an independent investigation into the car crash deaths of Cuban dissidents Oswaldo Payá and Hector Cepero last July.
Read MoreThe US government denied on Monday having any involvement in plans to destabilize Venezuela or a plot to assassinate opposition leader Henrique Capriles.The accusation of US meddling had come on Sunday from the interim president, Nicolas Maduro.
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