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Guantanamo lawyer found dead in apparent suicide
A US lawmaker who represented detainees at the US infamous Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba has been found dead in an apparent suicide, report says.
The body of Andy Hart was discovered last week, an investigative blog, Truthout, said in a report on Wednesday.
The report said the news of the lawyer’s death came from a Guantanamo investigator on Wednesday, adding the 38-year-old attorney died of a self-inflicted...
Guantanamo Bay prisoners on hunger strike out of despair
Prisoners in the U.S. prison Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been on a hunger strike for a month out of despair over the lack of prospects for a release. Nearly the entire camp is on strike, with the exception of the elderly and the sick. Many prisoners are in critical condition and are fed through a tube. “The list of Guantanamo” is active, and Russia should not care how it is treated in the...
Chavez undergoes new successful cancer surgery in Cuba
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez waves during the proclamation act in Caracas, October 10, 2012.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s medical team in Cuba has successfully completed an operation that targeted an aggressive cancer.
On Tuesday, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said that the “complex operation” which lasted almost six hours and was “correctly and successfully” completed.
Chavez...
Cuba, Venezuela, Russia and China now more free than America in notable ways
In reviewing all the breaking news over the last few months and looking for the “big picture” of where America is headed, one pattern has emerged with striking regularity: America has quietly become less free in many ways than nations like Cuba, China and even Venezuela.
This is especially true in California, where “justice” has become a joke, and the power of the state is unleashed in personal...
Russia no. 1 in TOP 10 Countries With Highest Divorce Rates In 2012
There has been an increasing rate of separation or divorce among couples and this list will show you the top 10 countries with highest divorce rates in 2012.
Despite of the legal matrimony and orientation about the sanctity of marriage, whether it is religious based beliefs or principles in life, we could see that the values and morals for marriage relationships are being torn down.
The weakening...
Cuba's aging Fidel Castro emerges in public after months
Cuba’s former revolutionary leader Fidel Castro
Cuba’s former revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has appeared in public for the first time in months, challenging the rumor mill that he is on death’s door.
Commercial director at the Hotel Nacional, Yamila Fuster, told The Associated Press on Sunday that the 86-year-old politician dropped off a Venezuelan guest on Saturday afternoon, and then...
US trade embargo on Cuba violates international law, Uruguayan FM says
Uruguayan Foreign Minister Luis Almagro
Uruguayan Foreign Minister Luis Almagro has told leaders and diplomats gathered in New York for a UN session that the US trade embargo on Cuba violates international law.
Almagro made the remarks on Saturday in an address during the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
“Our country rejects any coercive unilateral or extra-territorial measure...
Russia reopens its naval bases in Soviet-era ally countries
Admiral Chabanenko, Russian destroyer arriving at Havana’s harbor.
Russia is planning to expand its military muscles in some of Moscow’s soviet-era ally countries including the Latin American country of Cuba, Asian country of Vietnam and the Indian Ocean island of Seychelles.
According to the commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, Moscow is holding talks with the some countries outside of...
Russia and Cuba to strengthen ties again after years of break
Russia and Cuba are strengthening ties again, after a break which followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union supplied Cuba with oil – up to 13 mn tons each year – and quantities of arms. In return, it received Cuban tobacco, coffee, fruit and sugar and enjoyed the right to build and operate military facilities on Cuban territory. After the Soviet collapse, however, these exchanges...
Obama, Romney clash over US policy towards Iran-LatAm tie
Republican candidate Mitt Romney (L) and US President Barack Obama
Iran’s amicable relations with Latin American states, in particular Venezuela, has become a sticking point in the US presidential campaign, with both leading contenders trading accusations on policies towards South American states allied with the Islamic Republic.
The tit-for-tat began when Republican candidate Mitt Romney and his...
Venezuela’s President Chavez on wheelchair due to femur fracture
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez
A Venezuelan journalist says President Hugo Chavez has been forced to use a wheelchair due to severe pain caused by a fracture in his femur and his spreading cancer.
The pro-opposition Venezuelan columnist and radio talk-show host, Nelson Bocaranda, reported this week that Chavez got a fracture in his femur during his radiotherapy in Cuba.
Spending most of the last...
Venezuelan president flies back to Havana for radiation therapy
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a reunion with government members in Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas on April 11, 2012.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has flown back to Cuba for another round of radiation therapy for his cancer, few days after undergoing same treatment there.
“I must return (…) to Havana,” he said in a message broadcast on radio and television...
Latin America is in rebellion against the US: Bolivia
Bolivian President Evo Morales
Bolivian President Evo Morales says that Latin American countries are in rebellion against the United States after years of domination by their northern neighbor.
He made the remarks on Monday in Cartagena, Colombia on the last day of the Summit of the Americas, which gathered leaders and representatives of members of the Organization of American States (OAS), which includes...
Americas summit ends divided over Cuba and Falkland
A summit of nearly 30 Western Hemisphere leaders has ended without a joint declaration due to divisions over Cuba and Argentine claims to the Malvinas Islands.
“There is no declaration because there is no consensus,” said Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos as the summit’s closing news conference.
Washington, backed by Canada, stood fast against widespread demands to include in...
US sanctions on Cuba burden Cuban people: Pope
Pope Benedict XVI with Cuban leader Fidel Castro (R) during a meeting on March 28, 2012 in Havana
Pope Benedict XVI has denounced the US economic embargo on Cuba, saying such punitive measures “unfairly burden” the ordinary Cuban people.
“Restrictive economic measures imposed from outside the country unfairly burden its people,” the pope said on Wednesday in reference to US economic...