Caracas, February 19 (RHC)-- Venezuela has announced it will suspend TAP Air Portugal flights into and out of the country for 90 days, accusing the carrier of allowing opposition leader Juan Guaido’s uncle to bring explosives onto a flight to Caracas last week.... More


Santiago de Chile, February 19 (RHC)-- Four months of protests in Chile against the neoliberal policies of Sebastian Piñera's government has resulted in more than 3,700 people injured, 951 filed complaints of torture and 195 for sexual violence, according to updated figures released Tuesday by the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH).... More


Relatives of a social leader attend her wake in Puerto Tejada, Colombia in 2019.  (Photo: EFE)

Bogota, February 19 (RHC)-- The systematic killing of social leaders and former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) continues with impunity in Colombia, as two brothers - human rights defenders and campesino leaders - were killed Sunday in the southwest department of Cauca, raising the tally to 46 murdered in 2020.... More


Havana, February 19 (RHC)--The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, received this Tuesday in Havana the Secretary-General of the Democratic Revolutionary Party of Panama -PRD-, Pedro Miguel González Pinzón, who is visiting the island at the invitation of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party.... More


Brussels, Feb 19 (PL) Cuba denounced US agents before the European Parliament in its goal of overthrowing Cuba's constitutional order and reaffirmed its commitment to respect for human rights.... More


The second secretary of the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations, Indira Guardia. Cubaminrex Photo

Havana, February 18 (RHC)--The second secretary of the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations, Indira Guardia, reaffirmed the importance of the Special Committee on the UN Charter.... More


Havana, February 19 (RHC)-- Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, condemned the newly announced  U.S. government sanctions against the Russian oil company Rosneft Trading S.A. for trading with Venezuela.... More


London, February 18 (RHC)-- WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson is seeking answers after the publisher’s official account was mysteriously locked, ahead of an extradition hearing for founder Julian Assange, who faces life in prison if he is sent to the United States.... More


Washington, February 18 (RHC)-- Over 2,000 former Justice Department officials are now calling on Attorney General William Barr to resign, after he intervened to reduce the sentencing recommendation for President Trump’s longtime friend and former campaign adviser Roger Stone.... More


London, February 18 (RHC)-- The second-strongest non-tropical storm ever recorded in the North Atlantic Ocean is wreaking havoc in towns across the United Kingdom.  British authorities have issued over 300 warnings as “bomb cyclone” Dennis has produced 80-foot waves and winds reaching up to 90 miles per hour. ... More


Havana, February 18 (RHC)—Johana Tablada, Deputy Director of the U.S. Desk at the Cuban Foreign Ministry, blasted the U.S. policy of hatred the Trump Administration is waging against Cuba has reached levels never seen before.... More


Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro meeting with members of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB).  (Photo: AFP)

Caracas, February 18 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says the United States and some of its allies are plotting to invade Venezuela and that the South American country is “not afraid of military combat.”... More


Montevideo, February 18 (RHC)-- The Frente Amplio (Broad Front) of Uruguay deplored and rejected on Monday the absence of the heads of state of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela from the transmission of the presidential mandate on March 1.... More


The president of the Pan-African Parliament, Roger Nkodo Dang, paid tribute to the National Hero José Martí. National Assembly Photo

Havana, February 18 (RHC)-- The president of the Pan-African Parliament, Roger Nkodo Dang, paid tribute to the National Hero José Martí this Monday, placing a floral offering at the base of the monument to the Apostle, at Revolution Square in Havana.... More


Havana, February 18 (RHC)-- Francisco Durán, National Director of Epidemiology, of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health -MINSAP-, assured  Monday in Havana that there is no diagnosed or suspected case of the Coronavirus on the island so far.... More


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