Protesters from across the United States and Canada urged President Obama to reject the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which would deliver tar sands oil from Alberta to refineries along the Gulf Coast.
Read MoreRafael Correa won reelection in Ecuador with 56.5% of the vote on Sunday, reported Publico.es on Monday with 95% of the ballots tabulated. Correa appeared before thousands of cheering Ecuadorians on Sunday evening in Quito’s Independence Plaza saying: “I’m not going to disappoint you” and “nobody or nothing will stop this revolution.”
Read MoreParishioners 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.
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