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Venezuela Announces Arrest of US Navy SEAL, Weapons Seizure

By Jose Luis Granados Ceja on September 17, 2024

Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello addresses the media in front of 400 seized firearms linked to an alleged assassination plot.

Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello has reported the arrest of a US Navy SEAL alongside two Spanish citizens allegedly linked to intelligence agencies. The foreign citizens are accused of plotting to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro and other high-ranking Venezuelan officials. (more…)

Petro Warns that a Coup is Brewing in Colombia

By Camilo Rengifo Marin on September 16, 2024

Colombian President Gustavo Petro revealed in Armenia, Quindío, that a plan for a coup d’état is being forged, which has strong financing and would seek that the president of the Senate, Efraín Cepeda, businessman and politician of the Conservative Party, replaces him at the Casa de Nariño. (more…)

The Case of the Argentine Embassy in Venezuela

By Raphael Machado on September 16, 2024

Argentine Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, X/ @AlertaEcuador7

Diplomatic relations between Brazil and Venezuela, which were already tense due to differing expectations from the leadership of both countries, have become even more strained in recent days due to the debate surrounding the status of the Argentine Embassy in Caracas. (more…)

President Xiomara Castro: ‘Honduras Belongs to the People’

By Alejandra Garcia on September 15, 2024

Thousands march in Tegucigalpa in support of the Xiomara Castro government.

The government of Honduran President Xiomara Castro is under siege. “A plot is being hatched against my government,” she warned at the end of the week, after announcing the government’s decision to cancel the extradition treaty with the United States, in force since 1912. (more…)

Cuba Offers 200 fully-paid Scholarships for Palestinian Medical Students to Study on the Island

Edited by Ed Newman on September 14, 2024 from Havana

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel speaks with Palestinian medical students in Havana. photo: Presidencia Cuba.

Cuban Government is offering an additional 200 fully-paid scholarships for Palestinian medical students to complete undergraduate and graduate education in the coming years.   The announcement was made by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel when he received the ambassador of the State of Palestine, Dr. Akram Mohammad Samhan, who is finishing his diplomatic mission on the Caribbean island nation. (more…)

26 years after the Imprisonment of the Five Cuban Anti-Terrorists

By Laura V. Mor on September 12, 2024 from Havana

The Cuban 5 soon after their freedom. Photo: Ismael Francisco

Twenty-six years ago today, those known worldwide as the Cuban Five heroes were unjustly detained by the FBI for defending Cuba’s sovereignty and preventing new terrorist attacks planned from the United States. (more…)

Why so much Media Attention for Venezuela?

By Marc Vandepitte on September 13, 2024

Electoral parade in favor of Nicolás Maduro, July 26, 2024. Photo: REDH

Media manipulation is not only about what is said, but also about what is covered and what is not. The recent events in Venezuela are a good illustration of this. (more…)

Argentine Congress Approves Presidential Veto against Pension Reform

September 11, 2024

Pensioners fight police as Congress capitulates to Milei on pension reform, photo:Federico López Claro

On Wednesday, the Chamber of Deputies ratified President Javier Milei’s veto of the retirement mobility law that improve the retirement pensions of passive workers (by 8.1%), preventing the amount received from being less than the Basic Basket of Benefits. (more…)

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