Caracas, May 1 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza has demanded that the government of the United States stop using Venezuela to hide its faults and failures. Arreaza said: "The U.S. has now become the epicenter of the global pandemic generated by COVID-19, which has already reached 60 thousand deaths and more than a million confirmed cases. ... More
Panama City, May 1 (RHC)-- Hunger protests in Panama are increasing as despair grips people who do not have access to food distributed by the government, local media reported Wednesday.... More
Quito, May 1 (RHC)-- Indigenous people in Ecuador’s Amazon region have launched a lawsuit against Ecuador’s government as well as private and State oil companies over their responsibility in the country’s biggest oil spill in more than ten years, NGO Amazon Frontlines reports.... More
New York, May 1 (RHC)-- Today, as rent comes due and tens of millions of U.S. workers have been left unemployed by the pandemic, people across the United States are joining a general strike on May Day — the same day President Donald Trump says much of the country will reopen for business. ... More
New York, May 1 (RHC)-- Workers at some of the biggest corporations in the United States are planning an unprecedented wave of strikes on May 1st, International Workers’ Day. ... More
Washington, April 30 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has invoked the Defense Production Act to order meatpacking plants around the United States to remain open. Trump’s executive order comes as U.S. beef, pork and poultry processing plants are linked to areas with the highest rates of coronavirus transmission in the country.... More
Washington, April 30 (RHC)-- Criticism is growing over a new U.S. government program that was supposed to help small business owners receive low-interest loans to stay afloat during the economic crisis. ... More
New York, April 30 (RHC)-- The Associated Press reports riots are breaking out inside juvenile jails across the United States, and some youths have attempted to escape as coronavirus cases mount. One teenager imprisoned at the Bridge City facility near New Orleans described a SWAT team pepper-spraying a group of children who had kicked down their cell doors. ... More
Washington, April 30 (RHC)-- In the U.S., attorneys and advocates are raising concerns for the due process of immigrant children as the Trump administration continues deportation hearings for unaccompanied minors during the pandemic. ... More
San Juan, April 30 (RHC)-- A new survey by the Economic Policy Institute finds millions of U.S. workers who’ve lost their jobs have been unable to file for unemployment benefits, with state agencies unable to keep up with the sheer volume of new claims. ... More
Geneva, April 30 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization says it’s preparing to slash humanitarian aid to Yemen’s healthcare system by as much as 80%, after the Trump administration cut off funding to the U.N. global health body. ... More
Washington, April 30 (RHC)-- In climate news, parts of the U.S. Southwest are breaking heat records for the month of April heat records, with Las Vegas reaching triple digits for the first time ever before May 1st. Highs in Phoenix reached 106 degrees, also a record. ... More
Brasilia, April 29 (RHC)-- The Workers' Party (PT) of Brazil filed a lawsuit against President Jair Bolsonaro and former Justice Minister Sergio Moro at the Supreme Federal Court (STF) on suspicions of prevarication, extortion and corruption.... More
Rome, April 29 (RHC)-- Italy suffered a jump in COVID-19 fatalities on Tuesday as the illness claimed 382 more lives. It comes as the total number of people infected since the outbreak began in the Mediterranean country topped the 200,000 mark.... More
Guatemala City, April 29 (RHC)-- After staging a funeral procession through the streets of Guatemala City on Tuesday, social activists and workers came together in la Plaza de la Constitución to denounce the poor management of the health emergency by President Alejandro Giammattei administration.... More
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