Washington, November 14 (RHC)-- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- the EPA -- plans to restrict the scientific research that the federal government uses to write new public health regulations. ... More


Bolivia's Evo Morales at a news conference in downtown Mexico City.  (Photo: AlbaMovimientos)

Mexico City, November 13 (RHC)-- Bolivia's President Evo Morales denounced Wednesday the Organization of American States for being at the service of the United States and contributing to his country's political crisis.... More


La Paz, November 13 (RHC)-- The legitimate President of the Senate, Adriana Salvatierra, was violently assaulted by the police as she was trying to enter the Senate on Wednesday in order to comply with the constitutional rule that automatically proclaims the head of the upper chamber the Interim President when the President steps down, after Evo Morales was forced to resign on Sunday.... More


Argentina's President-elect Alberto Fernandez at Grupo de Puebla meeting in Buenos Aires.  (Photo: Reuters)

Buenos Aires, November 13 (RHC)-- Argentinean President-elect Alberto Fernández has criticized the U.S. stance on Bolivia’s political upheaval, which saw long-standing leftist leader Evo Morales resign under pressure and seek asylum in Mexico.... More


George Kent, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state at impeachment hearings.  (Photo: The Hill)

Washington, November 13 (RHC)-- In the U.S., on Capitol Hill, televised impeachment hearings began Wednesday in the inquiry into whether President Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine to pressure the Ukrainian president to investigate his political rival Joe Biden and his son. ... More


Phoenix, November 13 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Arizona, activist Scott Warren of the group No More Deaths is heading back to court for a second trial for providing water, food, clean clothes and beds to two undocumented migrants crossing the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona. ... More


Santiago de Chile, November 13 (RHC)-- Nearly 130 organizations joined the general strike Tuesday, as hundreds of thousands of Chileans across the country took to the streets in the biggest demonstration since the beginning of the anti-neoliberalism protests. ... More


Washington, November 13 (RHC)-- The U.S. Supreme Court has begun to hear oral arguments on three lawsuits demanding that the Donald Trump administration preserve Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, DACA, the Obama-era program that grants protection from deportation.... More


Caracas, November 13 (RHC)-- Venezuela has denounced that its embassy in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, was invaded by right-wing opponents of Nicolas Maduro during the early morning hours of Wednesday.  ... More


 Bolivian military officer puts the presidential sash on Añez.   (Photo: teleSUR)

La Paz, November 13 (RHC)-- Opposition Senator Jeanine Áñez declared herself president of Bolivia on Tuesday, despite not meeting with the constitutional requirements for such a move, as Parliament did not achieve a quorum because the lawmakers of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) could not attend.... More


Police detain a man who was protesting against the coup d'etat.  (Photo: Reuters)

La Paz, November 12 (RHC)-- Bolivian police on Monday harshly repressed people in El Alto who took to the streets to protest against the coup that forced the resignation of Evo Morales.  Images uploaded on social media attest to a number of injured, however, there are no official figures on the number of victims.... More


La Paz, November 12 (RHC)-- Bolivian Defense Minister Javier Zavaleta -- who served under the presidency of Evo Morales -- presented his resignation on Monday and denounced violent actions that the mutinous security forces are carrying out.... More


Washington, November 12 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has issued threats against the governments of Venezuela and Nicaragua after Sunday’s coup against President Evo Morales in Bolivia.... More


Moscow, November 12 (RHC)-- Former Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said the resignation of Bolivian President Evo Morales was the result of a coup and that events could have ended in worse violence if the socialist leader had not resigned.... More


Santiago de Chile, November 12 (RHC)-- The Chilean government has agreed to write a new constitution to replace one dating back to the Pinochet dictatorship, bowing to demands of protesters who have taken to the streets in demonstrations in recent weeks that have left at least 20 dead.... More


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