Since 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.
Read MorePremiering this week at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, the new documentary “Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield” follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill to Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen as he chases down the hidden truths behind America’s expanding covert wars.
Read MoreAddressing the Peace Ball in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, the renowned author, educator and political activist Angela Davis urges those content with President Obama’s re-election to continue pushing him for social change.
Read MoreWelcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for January 12 to 18th 2013. New models in protesting Israeli settlement activities in the West Bank, meanwhile, Hamas declares its readiness for conciliation, these stories and more, coming up.
Read MoreIn Algeria, at least 22 foreign hostages remained unaccounted for in what has been described as one of the biggest international hostage crises in decades. Islamist militants opposed to the French air strikes in neighboring Mali seized a gas facility near the Libyan border.
Read MoreOutrage is growing over the U.S. Justice Department’s prosecution of the 26-year-old who committed suicide last week just weeks before he was to go on trial. Pioneering computer programmer and cyber activist Aaron Swartz was facing up to 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine if convicted for using computers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to download millions of academic articles provided by the nonprofit research service JSTOR.
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