Latin America

Spain Urges Carromero to Go to Court…

Spanish 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.

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My Farewell to Hugo Chavez

In 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.

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Chavez to Be Embalmed like Mao & Lenin

The 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.

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Hugo Chávez Transformed Venezuela & Survived US-Backed Coup

With 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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Cuban Doctors to Remain in Venezuela

The over 40,000 Cuban doctors and other professionals working in Venezuela will continue providing humanitarian services in that South American nation, reported the official Granma newspaper in the wake of the death of President Hugo Chavez.

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Oliver Stone, Sean Penn, Mourn Death of Chavez

Oliver Stone described Hugo Chavez, who died on Tuesday at the age of 58, as someone who will go down in history as “a champion of the poor.” Sean Penn said that with the death of Chavez “the people of the United States lost a friend they never knew they had.”

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Cuba: Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro’s Lost Heir

With the death of Hugo Chavez, Cuba also lost the longed for great political leader after the slow public demise of Fidel Castro. An admirer and close friend of the Cuban revolutionary, the Venezuelan president was the person who best embodied the ideas of Castro in recent decades throughout Latin America

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