Palestinians react towards the expected visit of the US President Barack Obama to the Occupied Palestinian Territories, in the meantime protests in support of the Palestinian prisoners organized all over the West Bank, these stories and more, coming up, stay tuned.
Read MoreAt the funeral of Hugo Chavez today, acting Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro said that he wants good relations with the United States, but ones based on respect for sovereignty, reported the dpa news service. The only foreign speaker at the funeral was the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Read MoreMillions are gathering in Caracas to mourn the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, including more than 30 world leaders.
Read MoreOfficial 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.
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