Buenos Aires, September 3 (RHC)-- Brazilian authorities are preventing Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from running in the presidential elections because they know he would win, former Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez said on social media.... More


Mexico City, September 3 (RHC)-- Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, popularly known as AMLO, has announced that on September 26th he will meet with the parents of the 43 Ayotzinapa students, on the fourth anniversary of their disappearance.... More


Guatemala City, September 3 (RHC)-- Guatemalans staged a national march on Saturday following President Jimmy Morales’s decision to expel the United Nations-backed International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG).  A broad cross-section of the country's social and political movements along with regular citizens have rejected the move, which has also been condemned by the United Nations and Guatemala’s political opposition, and have planned to unite in defense of CICIG the under the banner “Get Out Jimmy!”... More


Ramallah, September 2 (RHC)-- A spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says a recent decision made by the United States in freezing the funding of a United Nations aid program for Palestinian refugees is a "flagrant assault" against Palestinians.... More


Washington, September 2 (RHC)-- The U.S. military has declared it is canceling $300 million in aid to Pakistan over what it calls Islamabad’s failure to take decisive measures against militant forces, marking a further deterioration in ties.... More


Washington, September 1 (RHC)--- The United States has halted all funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the agency that has provided assistance to Palestinians since they were deprived of their land some 70 years ago.... More


Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks at a rally in Curitiba in March 2018. Reuters

Brasilia, September 1 (RHC)-- Brazil´s top Electoral Court ruled Friday that former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is ineligible to run in the October presidential elections due to his corruption conviction.... More


Washington, September 1 (RHC)-- In the U.S., The Washington Post is reporting that the Trump administration is increasingly denying passports to U.S. citizens of Mexican heritage, throwing their citizenship into question. ... More


Damascus, September 1 (RHC)-- Foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants have reportedly abducted nearly two dozen children from the city of Jisr al-Shughur in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib to use them in a fake chemical attack and then put the blame on Syrian government forces.... More


Washington, September 1 (RHC)-- The U.S. Air Force has recently put out request for information (RFI) forms, calling on contractors to come forward with pricing and availability details for training no less than 41 Royal Saudi Air Force personnel, the website The Young Turks network has reported.... More


Caracas, August 30 (RHC)—A US-sponsored joint military naval exercise is underway in Colombia with the participation of 13 countries. Argentina, Brazil, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Canada, and England are participating in the 58th edition of the United States Southern Command-sponsored drill known as "Unitas."... More


Tehran, August 31 (RHC)-- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has fired back at “warmonger” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for threatening Iran with “atomic annihilation” right from the regime’s secretive atomic weapons facility.... More


Washington, August 31 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump described his administration's response to the catastrophe in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria last year as "a fantastic job.”  Trump made the comment on Wednesday, one day after Puerto Rico adjusted its official toll from the storm to almost 3,000 -- 46 times higher than the earlier death toll of 64.  ... More


Bogota, August 30 (RHC)-- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has urged the new Colombian government to search for the over 83,000 people who disappeared in the country, in commemoration of the International Day of the Disappeared, which is observed every year on August 30.... More


Jimmy Morales

Guatemala City, August 30 (RHC)-- Guatemala’s Congress announced earlier this week that the members of its National Investigatory Commission will probe President Jimmy Morales for alleged 2015 campaign finance violations, days after Congress revoked its 2017 vote granting him prosecutorial immunity.... More


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