Raul Castro in Caracas for Chavez Funeral
Cuban President Raul Castro has arrived in Caracas, Venezuela on Thursday afternoon to take part in the tribute to Hugo Chavez underway with the presence of leaders of numerous countries.
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Latin America
Operation Condor Trial Tackles Coordinated Campaign by Latin American Dictatorships to Kill Leftists
A historic trial underway in Argentina is set to reveal new details about how Latin American countries coordinated with each other in the 1970s and ’80s to eliminate political dissidents. The campaign known as “Operation Condor” involved military dictatorships in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
Read MoreHugo 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.
Read MorePresident of French Senate Rejects EU & US Sanctions on Cuba
The president of the French Senate, Jean-Pierre Bel, on Tuesday called for the lifting of the European Union’s (EU) “Common Position” against Cuba and an end to the US blockade of the island, reported Prensa Latina.
Read MoreCuban 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.
Read MoreOliver 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.”
Read MoreCuba: 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
Read MoreHugo Chavez Is Dead at 58, informs VP
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, 58, passed away on Tuesday at a Caracas military hospital, Vice President Nicolas Maduro told a national radio and TV audience.
Read MoreVenezuelan Top Brass Meet with VP Maduro
Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro met with political and military leaders of the South American country in the Miraflores presidential palace late Tuesday morning, reported dpa news.
Read MoreEgypt: Black Bloc Violence & Canal City Strikes
From violence to civil disobedience, Egypt’s disparate opposition groups are deploying a variety of tactics in resisting the state.
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