“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.
Read MoreAn animal rights investigator details how he has spent over a decade secretly filming animal abuse and why that work is now imperiled by a wave of laws sweeping the country. Speaking on the condition we conceal his identity, “Pete” has secretly captured animal abuse on farms and slaughterhouses after applying to work at the location.
Read MoreThe government of Raul Castro confirmed today that an American couple who kidnapped their two children after losing custody arrived to Cuba with the kids on Sunday. Cuban officials expressed a willingness to turn them over to U.S. authorities.
Read MoreIn Cuba, when you do something completely out of place, with no justification, and erratically, we simply say “te has cagado” (you screwed up). Simply, anyone equipped with common sense knows that Korea would disappear from the face of the earth without anything serious happening to the Americans.
Read MoreAn oil spill was recorded today in Ecuador by a ruptured Heavy Crude Pipeline in the northwest coastal region of Esmeraldas, informed the Ministry of Nonrenewable Resources (OCP).The estimated volume of the spill was put at 5,500 barrels of oil,
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