Official delegations from over 50 countries, as well as thousands of Venezuelans, are now concentrated around the Caracas Military Academy, where at noon the official funeral of President Hugo Chavez begins, reported dpa news.Also to take place on Friday is the swearing in of Nicolas Maduro as the interim president.
Read MoreSpanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo urged Angel Carromero today to go to court if he has “new evidence” on the accident in which Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya died, and for which he was sentenced in October as the driver.
Read MoreIn Chavez was born an awakening; in him was born an era of change not only for Venezuela, but for the world. It began in the pearl of the Caribbean, the mother of Bolivar, and gradually it awakened the peoples of Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Nicaragua, Uruguay and other nations.
Read MoreThe remains of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who died on Tuesday of cancer, will be embalmed and displayed in the “Museum of the Revolution” in Caracas indefinitely, said Vice President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday.
Read MoreCuban President Raul Castro has arrived in Caracas, Venezuela on Thursday afternoon to take part in the tribute to Hugo Chavez underway with the presence of leaders of numerous countries.
Read MoreA historic trial underway in Argentina is set to reveal new details about how Latin American countries coordinated with each other in the 1970s and ’80s to eliminate political dissidents. The campaign known as “Operation Condor” involved military dictatorships in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
Read MoreWith the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez after a two-year fight with cancer, we host a roundtable discussion on a revolutionary leader whose democratic-socialist policies not only transformed his country, but helped steer the entire Latin American region away from U.S.-backed neoliberalism.
Read MoreThe president of the French Senate, Jean-Pierre Bel, on Tuesday called for the lifting of the European Union’s (EU) “Common Position” against Cuba and an end to the US blockade of the island, reported Prensa Latina.
Read MoreThe over 40,000 Cuban doctors and other professionals working in Venezuela will continue providing humanitarian services in that South American nation, reported the official Granma newspaper in the wake of the death of President Hugo Chavez.
Read MoreOliver Stone described Hugo Chavez, who died on Tuesday at the age of 58, as someone who will go down in history as “a champion of the poor.” Sean Penn said that with the death of Chavez “the people of the United States lost a friend they never knew they had.”
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