Earlier this month, former Black Panther Assata Shakur was added to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list, becoming the first woman ever to make the list. In 1979, she managed to escape from jail. Shakur fled to Cuba, where she received political asylum.
Read MoreThe remains of Jesús Cejas Arias, a Cuban diplomat in Argentina, who was kidnapped and later killed during the dictatorship in 1976, were found in that country. The remains were hidden in a 200 liter metal drum and filled with cement, said the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team.
Read MoreFor yet another consecutive year, the United States has decided to keep Cuba on the State Department’s annual State Sponsors of Terrorism list, in spite of ever more frequent calls to remove the country from this black list, where it has figured since 1982, DPA reported.
Read MoreThose who had wondered how long the proverbial patience of the Chinese would last with respect to North Korea have been given an answer. The message was either you sit down at the negotiations table and openly resume talks or China’s gloves are off, big time.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, Ecuador’s foreign minister accused the British government of trampling on Assange’s rights by refusing to allow him to travel to Ecuador, which granted him political asylum almost a year ago. Joining us from the embassy, Assange addresses what he calls “attacks on all fronts against WikiLeaks.”
Read MoreThe change in management at Venezuela’s Globovision TV channel and the decision of major Venezuelan television broadcasters to air a government campaign “for peace and life”, aimed at reducing the country’s high crime rate and instability, could mark the beginning of a new stage in the complicated relationship between Venezuela’s television and government.
Read MoreAs Guatemala’s high court annuls former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt’s genocide conviction, we’re joined by two people who have worked tirelessly to bring perpetrators of war crimes in the country to justice. Helen Mack, one of Guatemala’s most well-known human rights activists, fought for years to prosecute the government forces who assassinated her sister, anthropologist Myrna Mack on Sept. 11, 1990.
Read MoreThe National Assembly of Venezuela approved a loan of 519 million bolivars (US $ 82.38 million) to import toilet paper and other personal hygiene products to combat the shortage in the markets, reported DPA news.
Read MoreThe Telecommunications Company of Cuba (ETECSA) began receiving international service through Cable & Wireless Jamaica starting May 13th, Diario de Cuba reported.
Read MoreBrazilian doctors objected Wednesday to the recent announcement that their government plans to hire 6000 Cuban doctors to meet the shortfall of health professionals in interior regions of the nation, reports AP.
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