La Paz, January 11 (RHC)-- The de-facto government of Bolivia continues with the siege and political persecution of leaders and supporters of the Movement Toward Socialism party (MAS) and authorities that were part of the Evo Morales government, this time the former minister Carlos Romero.... More
Port-au-Prince, January 11 (RHC)-- There are at least 34,000 people living in displacement camps 10 years after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti. According to the head of the UN mission in Haiti, when the quake hit on January 12, 2010, there were 1.5 million displaced people in over 1,500 camps and displacement sites.... More
Cuba’s Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute is organizing the 13th Havana Course ‘Tropical and Travel Medicine 2020’, set for March 2nd through the 5th in Havana.... More
Havana, January 11 (RHC)--The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, today evoked the memory of the revolutionary fighter, politician and Cuban researcher Celia Sánchez Manduley, on the 40th anniversary of her death.... More
Havana, January 11 (RHC) -- The 15 Provincial Assemblies of People's Power in Cuba are holding their last sessions this Saturday as a preliminary step towards the establishment of new structures in the provinces, under the authority of governors.... More
Havana, January 11 (RHC)-- Cuba will allow cash deposits in bank accounts in USD opened by individuals before November 8, 2004, and will apply the 10% tax, the Official Gazette published earlier this week.... More
San Juan, January 11 (RHC)-- U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar has declared a public health emergency for Puerto Rico, after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake rocked the island early Tuesday, killing at least one person and plunging nearly the entire population into darkness. ... More
Paris, January 11 (RHC)-- In France, at least half a million people flooded the streets across the country to show their support for the unionized rail workers whose strike against French President Emmanuel Macron’s attempted pension overhaul has now become the longest transportation strike in French history. ... More
McAllen, January 11 (RHC)-- In the U.S., the Mexican asylum seeker died by suicide earlier this week when he slit his own throat after being denied entry into the United States at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge at the Texas-Mexico border. ... More
Chicago, January 11 (RHC)-- In the U.S., airline manufacturer Boeing is facing even more scrutiny over its troubled 737 MAX jet, as released internal e-mails show Boeing employees talking about deceiving federal regulators and joking about potential safety flaws in the plane’s design ahead of the two fatal plane crashes that killed all 346 people on board in Ethiopia and Indonesia. ... More
Havana, January 10 (RHC)-- The president of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, as well as the Councils of State and Ministers, sent flowers on Friday to the Memorial that keeps the ashes of student leader Julio Antonio Mella, on the 91st anniversary of his assassination.... More
United Nations, January 10 (RHC)-- Dozens of countries attending a UN Security Council meeting have used the forum to take a swipe at the U.S. administration for assassinating the Middle East's most prominent anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani.... More
Quito, January 10 (RHC)-- Ecuador’s Ministry of Defense has announced it will purchase $3.6 million worth of non-lethal weapons and riot gear for the Armed Forces, ahead of new strikes called by various social and Indigenous groups for the first quarter of 2020.... More
Vancouver, January 10 (RHC)-- In Canada, indigenous leaders issued an eviction notice to the workers of a pipeline company seeking to build a $6.6 billion gas pipeline through First Nations territory in British Columbia.... More
Sydney, January 10 (RHC)-- In news on climate change, a new analysis from one of the world’s largest insurance companies says hurricanes, wildfires and floods cost $150 billion globally in 2019 and that this figure is expected to increase in the coming years. In Australia, the death toll from the raging, climate-fueled wildfires has again risen — to 27 people and an estimated 1 billion animals.... More
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