Cuba and Nicaragua have signed new agreements to strengthen scientific and academic cooperation contributing to better trained personnel devoted to the protection of animal, plant and human health.... More


Héctor Rodríguez, head of the Great Patriotic Pole

Social movements, lawmakers and members of the Venezuelan government are protesting against the Amnesty Bill that right-wing members of the National Assembly want to approve despite its unconstitutional nature.... More


Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Venezuela have agreed to freeze oil production at January levels if other major oil producing nations also commit to stabilizing output.... More


The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People' Army (FARC-EP) has issued a report on the progress of peace negotiations in Havana with the government of President Juan Manuel Santos.... More


UN peace-keepers from the Democratic Republic of Congo have been accused of sexually abusing four children who were living in a camp for displaced civilians in the Central African Republic.... More


Bolivian President Evo Morales says that voting "yes" in Sunday's referendum will boost the development and industrialization of Bolivia in the next decade.... More


At least 100 trucks carrying humanitarian aid are scheduled to set off for the besieged areas of war-hit Syria from the capital, Damascus.... More


Argentina's Education Minister Esteban Bulrich

The government of Argentina has yielded to demands for salary increases by five teachers' unions, and both parties have arranged a new work contract to avoid a strike.... More


A global humanitarian organization has warned against fencing off Europe’s borders in response to a huge influx of refugees, saying countries in the continent should treat asylum seekers with “dignity.”... More


The Foreign Minister of El Salvador, Hugo Martínez, has confirmed that representatives of his country, Honduras and Guatemala will meet on February 24th in Washington with U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden... More


Berlin’s Konzerthaus

An artist critical of the EU’s response to the ongoing refugee crisis has covered a famous concert house in Berlin with 14,000 lifejackets discarded by asylum seekers on the Greek island of Lesbos.... More


Pope Francis

A transcript of the RHC program, Pope Francis in Chiapas broadcast on Tuesday February 16. Spanish exerpts voiced by Estela Christina and English translation by Gerwyn Jones... More


Cuban Vice President Ricardo Cabrisas held talks Monday in Havana with Uruguayan Vice President Fernando Sendic, who is paying an official visit.... More


Cuba and the United States signed an agreement on Tuesday morning to resume commercial air traffic for the first time in five decades. ... More


In a message to the nation on Tuesday, Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro announced his government’s actions to overcome the current economic crisis.... More


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