News of the hunger strike at the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba first emerged last week, but appears to involve far more prisoners than thought. In a letter to his attorney, one detainee wrote: “We are in danger.
Read MoreVenezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles on Tuesday rejected as “homophobic” a statement made by interim President Nicolas Maduro, who suggested his opponent was homosexual. Capriles said Maduro assertions are expressions of “fascism and the extreme right.”
Read MoreFor over 40 years, the women’s movement in Nicaragua has preserved from anonymity the women’s rebellions of the past, has contributed to forging a new consciousness of rights, has denounced the violations of our rights and has demanded changes that favor a true equality between women and men.
Read MoreJapan stands at a crossroads over its reliance on nuclear power as the country marks the second anniversary of one of the world’s worst atomic disasters. On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami that struck Japan’s northeast coast, killing more than 20,000 and leaving at least 150,000 homeless.
Read MoreJorge Arreaza, son-in-law of Hugo Chavez, has been named the interim vice president of Venezuela by the interim president, Nicolas Maduro. The 39-year-old husband of Chavez’s eldest daughter Rosa Virginia, he has worked in the communications field since 2001, and by 2011 rose to become the minister of Science and Technology under Chavez.
Read MoreFormer Cuban president, Fidel Castro, the current senior advisor to his brother, President Raul Castro, commented today on the loss last Tuesday of Hugo Chavez, 58, who he considered Cuba’s top ally.
Read MoreVenezuelans will have new presidentiial elections on April 14 to replace Hugo Chavez who died on Tuesday. The date chosen by the electoral council is the same date that Chavez returned triumphant to Caracas after the short-lived US supported coup against him in 2002. The candidates will be interim president Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Henrique Capriles.
Read MoreNicolas Maduro was sworn in yesterday as interim president of Venezuela before the National Assembly, the same day as the funeral of President Hugo Chavez, who died after a nearly two-year fight against cancer. Maduro then asked the board of elections to call a new presidential election, which they did on Saturday, setting the date for April 14, 2013.
Read MorePalestinians 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.
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