Venezuelans are called on Sunday to elect the 545 members of the Constituent Assembly convened by President Nicolas Maduro, amid a wave of opposition protests that seek to stop the process they consider fraudulent.
Read MoreMembers of the Farmers’ Movement who are demanding the repeal of Law 840 (the canal concession) took their complaint against the Nicaraguan State to the OAS’s Inter-American Commission for Human Rights. They went to denounce the Nicaraguan government’s repression against their movement.
Read MoreFive people died during a 48 hour general strike summoned by the Venezuelan opposition, in the largest protest against the Constitutional Assembly which is being pushed by President Maduro. Venezuela is the Cuban government’s leading economic and political ally.
Read MoreThe winds will be variable and weak, with speeds between 6 and 15 mph. The high temperatures will be between 32 and 33° C (90 and 91 F), while the low temperatures will range between 24 and 25° C (75 and 77 F).
Read MoreThe United States today ordered the immediate departure of family members of the embassy staff in Venezuela and authorized the voluntary departure of government employees who also wish to leave, informed the US State Department.
Read MoreThe United States government issued new clarifications on Tuesday on measures that will take effect for travel, remittances and business with Cuba under President Trump’s policy toward the island. Illustration: progresoweekly.us
Read MoreThe Trump administration imposed today sanctions on 13 senior Venezuelan officials, increasing pressure on President Nicolas Maduro within days of an election for a Constituent Assembly he seeks to draft a new Constitution.
Read MoreVenezuela’s Attorney General, Luisa Ortega Diaz warned on Tuesday that the Constitutional Assembly planned by President Nicolas Maduro, will leave the Constitution, which has been in effect since 1999, void.
Read MoreThis year the July 26th celebration will take place in the western city of Pinar del Río. They have already announced that it will not be President Raul Castro who will give the central address, but instead the number two man of the Communist Party and his 86-year-old contemporary, Jose Ramon Machado Ventura.
Read MoreJosefina Vidal Ferreiro, the Cuban face of the negotiations and reestablishment of relations with the United States, leaves her post as the department head for United States Affairs with the Foreign Ministry (Minrex) to become the country’s ambassador to Canada.
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