Parishioners at the National Shrine of St. Lazarus, in Havana, prayed for the health of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during Lent Mass, which takes place every February 17th on behalf of the sick, reported Prensa Latina. Chávez made a surprise return to Venezuela early on Monday.
Read MoreVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez, announced today via his Twitter page that he has returned to Caracas after receiving treatment for cancer in Cuba, reported DPA news. “I have returned to the Venezuelan homeland. Thank God!! Thank you beloved people! I will continue the treatment here.”.
Read MoreCanadian Foreign Minister John Baird will visit several Latin American countries next week including Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, Panama and also Cuba, where he is expected to arrive on Friday, Feb. 22. The timing of the first visit by a top Canadian diplomat since Joe Clark’s trip in 1986, coincides with economic reforms in Cuba.
Read MoreThe fire that killed former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner on Tuesday has drawn comparisons to the deadly 1993 raid on the Branch Davidian complex in Waco, Texas, and the 1985 police bombing of the MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia.
Read MoreThe first official photos of the ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez from his Havana, Cuba hospital bed were released on Friday, nine weeks after he underwent surgery for the fourth time in a year and a half.
Read MoreThe top international news item of the day is the falling of fragments of an exploded meteorite over Russia’s Ural region, leaving at least 700 injured and considerable material damage in the city of Chebarkul and surrounding areas.
Read MoreForty-eight people, including civil rights leader Julian Bond and NASA climate scientist James Hansen, were arrested Wednesday in front of the White House as part of an ongoing protest calling on the Obama administration to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
Read MoreDemocracy Now* HAVANA TIMES – People around the world are rising up today and taking to the streets to dance.
Read MoreAs President Obama announced plans to withdraw another 34,000 troops from Afghanistan, longtime peace activist Kathy Kelly warns the war shows no end. Kelly, who just returned from Afghanistan, says the company formally known as Blackwater is now running a base just outside of Kabul used by the Special Operations Joint Task Force.
Read MoreSpeculation is mounting over who will become the next pope after Pope Benedict XVI shocked the Catholic Church on Monday, Benedict’s resignation comes as the Catholic Church is facing scrutiny over its handling of the widening priest sexual abuse scandal and its crackdown on liberal nuns.
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