The 33 nations comprising the CELAC have a common history. They constitute the third largest economy in the world, the third largest producer of electricity and the largest producer of food. Collectively they possess the largest freshwater reserve in the world and have a gross domestic product (GDP) of about seven trillion dollars.
Read MoreHugo Chavez would have been a key figure in the summit of Latin American & Caribbean Nations taking place in Chile but his health continues to be a big question mark from his hospital bed in Havana, Cuba, where he will undergo further treatment.
Read MoreIsrael holds its general elections bringing more relatively centrist parties to the Parliament, and in the mean time, Hamas and Fatah are close to reconciliation, these stories and more, coming up.
Read MoreA new film featuring the Mexican film star Gael Garcia Bernal examines the story of a Honduran migrant who died in the Arizona desert in 2010. “Who Is Dayani Cristal?” begins when border police in Arizona discover the decomposing body of a migrant in the Sonoran Desert, in an area known as “the corridor of death.”
Read MoreChile’s Independent Democratic Union (UDI) announced that it will carry out “actions” against Raul Castro for supposedly harboring in Cuba the murders of Jaime Guzman, the ideologue of the Pinochet dictatorship, reported the Cubaencuentro website.
Read MoreSince the arrival of the revolutionary machine in the country in 1999, the year Hugo Rafael Chavez took office as president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, great changes have been made for building strong foundations of a socialist project in the 21st century.
Read MoreBe warned: A Camel will pass though the eye of the needle before a Cuban is allowed to enter the Special Administrative Región of Hong Kong (a phrase that ought to be written in gold letters on the wall of the Hong Kong Immigration Office in Beijing) ( 14 photos)
Read MoreThis year’s Sundance Film Festival includes 28 feature-length documentaries from the United States and around the world, covering subjects including the story of WikiLeaks, abortion, the Egyptian revolution, immigration, covert U.S. wars, and many more.
Read MoreEcuadorian authorities on Monday repatriated 26 Cubans who arrived at the International Airport in Quito without a letter of invitation, reported the Café Fuerte website. The move by Ecuador came as a response to Cuba’s new immigraiton reforms making it easier for citizens to travel abroad.
Read MoreVenezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro and the vice president of the Council of Ministers, Rafael Ramirez, arrived in Cuba on Wednesday, amid reports from government sources about Chavez progressive recovery and the possibility that he can return soon to Caracas.
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