By Ciaran Giles on May 26, 2015
Spain’s prime minister acknowledged Monday he was disappointed with his party’s showing in local elections, which he attributed largely to austerity measures his government was compelled to take during Europe’s recent debt crisis and a recent string of political scandals. (more…)
May 28, 2015
“The outrage needs to rise on this issue of the serial murders of Black women here in South Los Angeles. There’s a mini-genocide that has gone on right here in this neighborhood. It impacts each and every one of us and it’s a shame that there are up to 200 women missing and as many as 100 killed and this whole country doesn’t know about it,” exclaimed Margaret Prescod, founding member of the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders and member of the Global Women’s Strike. (more…)
May 28, 2015
There are currently 795 million hungry people in the world, according to figures from the latest report released Wednesday by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Program (WFP), which also shows that only 29 countries, among which is Venezuela, have met the target of halving the number of undernourished people for this 2015. (more…)
By Michael D McDonald on May 29, 2015
Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina is confronting increasing calls to resign after his central bank chief was indicted and protesters prepared to take to the streets this weekend. In the wake of corruption scandals that have prompted the departure of his vice president and key cabinet members, Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchu, the country’s professional association of attorneys and the Center for the Defense of the Constitution this week called for Perez Molina to step down. (more…)
Venezuelan members of parliament and spokespeople for state institutions have come together to vehemently reject a Wall Street Journal report which claimed that National Assembly President, Diosdado Cabello, is being probed by US federal authorities for alleged links to international drug trafficking (more…)
The former detainees camped for more than three weeks outside the U.S. embassy, as Obama tries to shut down Guantanamo. Former Guantanamo Bay detainees who camped outside the U.S. embassy in Uruguay’s capital Montevideo for 22 days demanding compensation for their 12-year imprisonment ordeals ended their protest Tuesday after the Latin American country offered guarantees to their welfare. (more…)
With the count almost completed, the ruling con-servative People’s Party (PP) has lost 2.5 million votes compared with the 2011 local elections.
Spain’s left-wing and anti-austerity political move-ments made important gains in local and regional elections Sunday, challenging the country’s two traditional parties ahead of general elections later this year. (more…)
By Carlos Aznares on May 20, 2015
A 20 year old Chilean fascist could not tolerate that two youth like him had painted the front of his house with a slogan calling for free education; so he killed them with a pistol on the spot. Exequiel Bovarán, 18 and Diego Guzmán, 24, died for this trivial offense in Valparaiso shortly after a massive protest took place in that city. Meanwhile in Santiago thousands of young people were being violently repressed by the infamous police there known as the Carabineros. (more…)