El Salvador’s Supreme Court has ordered the release of three women imprisoned for around a decade under the country’s anti-abortion laws, which are among the harshest in the world. The women were among dozens who have been sentenced to up to 30 years for abortion-related crimes, reported Democracy Now on Friday.
Read MoreThe Venezuelan capital Caracas was quiet on Friday, with schools and work places closed to facilitate the restoration of power while parts of the capital still remained without electricity. A power outage that had lasted for more than 17 hours persisted in several regions of the country, with some hospitals unable to function, daily El Nacional reported.
Read MorePochomil, Nicaragua. Elton Orellana. I live in Canada but was born in El Salvador. Camera: Canon PowerShot ELPH 130 IS
Read More“It is fundamental that the international community does not take its eyes from Nicaragua”, since, “when you have crimes against humanity, (we) must intervene so that this situation is modified”, explained the Guatemalan lawyer, Claudia Pay y Paz, one of the four members of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI).
Read MoreThe opening of an exhibition titled “Symbols of the Epoch, People who Changed the World” took place at the Lenin Memorial in Ulyanovsk on March 2, with an exhibition dedicated to Ernesto “Che” Guevara and Fidel Castro.
Read MoreDuring this 7-day forecast period, expect little cloudiness in the morning, increasing in the afternoons, with a low probability of rain. The winds will be from the east and northeast, remaining weak. The high temperatures will range from a relatively cool 24° C (75 F) on Thursday and increasing to 31° (88 F) on the weekend. The lows will range between 18 and 21° C (64 and 70 F).
Read MoreThe Big Jump. By Stelios Karastamatis from Greece. Camera: Canon 5D Mark2
Read MoreGermany’s ambassador to Venezuela was declared a persona non grata on Wednesday, as Caracas said that Daniel Kriener had intervened in the country’s internal affairs. He was given 48 to leave the crisis-ridden country.
Read MoreOn March 5, the exiled Nicaraguan singer-songwriter Carlos Mejía Godoy was returning to Costa Rica from San Francisco, USA, where he performed in concert with the group “Tierra Fertil”. While on a layover of a couple of hours in Panama, he was received at the Tocumen Airport by a group of Nicaraguan exiles, members of the April 19th Alvaro Conrado Movement in Panama.
Read MoreThe Cuban economy took another hit this week as the US opened the door to hundreds, if not thousands, of lawsuits against the island’s government and military that appropriated confiscated properties of who are now US citizens. The bad news for Cuba comes at a time of the near collapse of the government’s greatest political and economic ally, the Maduro government in Venezuela.
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