Bogota, January 31 (RHC)-- Colombia’s former rebel group, FARC -- now called the Common Revolutionary Alternative Force -- has denounced the execution of an extermination plan against former guerrilla fighters who are settled in the Ituango Municipality, in Antioquia.... More


Protest against the Migration Protection Protocols (MPP) program, San Diego, California.  (Photo: EFE)

San Diego, January 31 (RHC)-- Social activists gathered in San Diego, California, to protest against the U.S. Migration Protection Protocols (MPP) program due to human rights abuses occurring in the places to which migrants are sent.... More


San Salvador, January 31 (RHC)-- Retired Salvadoran General Juan Rafael Bustillo has acknowledged for the first time that elite United States-trained forces were responsible for carrying out the 1981 El Mozote massacre in which nearly 1,000 unarmed villagers were killed. Most of those tortured and murdered by the U.S.-backed troops were women and children.... More


Refugees and migrants cross a part of the Aegean Sea from the Turkish coast to reach the Greek island of Lesbos.  (Photo: Reuters)

Athens, January 31 (RHC)-- Greece is planning to install a floating fence on the Aegean Sea to block migrants from reaching its islands' shores through Turkey. According to Greek government officials, Athens wants to build a 2.7-kilometer-long net-like barrier near the island of Lesbos, where the overcrowded Moria camp operates.... More


New York, January 31 (RHC)-- Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has sharply disagreed with U.S. President Donald Trump’s characterization of his country's current state of the economy, saying they are just wrong and in line with his other lies and misrepresentations.... More


At the end of 2019, unemployment in the region amounted to 8.1 percent, one tenth over the index registered in 2018. (Photo: EFE)

Geneva, January 31 (RHC)-- The International Labor Organization (ILO) has expressed concern over the alarming level of unemployment among youngsters in Latin America, where one out of five is lacking a job.... More


Trump with Pastor Darrell Scott.  A group run by Scott gave away $25,000 in cash-stuffed envelopes at events promoting Trump

Washington, January 31 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump’s allies are trying to win over Black voters by offering envelopes of cash at pro-Trump events around the country.... More


New York, January 31 (RHC)-- In the United States, the publisher Flatiron Books has canceled the author tour of the controversial novel “American Dirt,” after the book faced massive criticism and backlash for its stereotypical and inaccurate portrayal of Mexicans and the current migration crisis.... More


Artemisa, January 31 (RHC)-- The province of Artemisa is gaining in organization and creating a more coherent and comprehensive work system, the president of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, said at the closing of the second government visit to the western territory... More


Havana, January 31 (RHC)-- The rector of the University of Computer Science (UCI), Walter Baluja García, and Claudio Viqueira López, president of the Sociedad Mercantil Telefónica Antillana S.A., led Thursday the act of incorporation of the Mercantile Society that gives legal life to the Scientific and Technological Park of Havana (3CE).... More


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Havana, January 31 (RHC)-- Cuba and Germany confirmed on Friday the positive state of their relations, said diplomatic sources of the Caribbean nation.... More


Havana, January 31 (RHC)-- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla rejected the so-called "Deal of the Century," presented by U.S. President Donald Trump, which supports Israeli intervention in Palestinian territory.... More


Geneva, January 30 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization (WHO) Thursday declared an international emergency in the face of the rapid increase in patients affected by the new 2019-nCoV coronavirus, and more than 8,000 confirmed cases in 18 countries.... More


Ramallah, January 30 (RHC)-- Thousands of Palestinians have taken to the streets in several parts of the occupied West Bank to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s so-called “peace deal.”  At the same time, Israeli forces shut down the Old City of Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa compound.... More


Washington, January 30 (RHC)-- U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross made a controversial statement on Fox News, saying that he sees the coronavirus as a good business opportunity for the United States.  The virus has killed nearly 200 people and infected more than 7,000 more as it threatens to become a global pandemic.... More


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