Mexico City, September 23 (teleSUR-RHC)-- In the small, usually quiet town of San Antonio Matute, in the northern Mexican state of Jalisco, armed forces clashed with heavily armed drug gang members, with a death toll between five and eight, according to local officials and conflicting news reports.... More
Mexico City, September 23 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Tensions have been heating up in Mexico this week both in the streets and in congress, days ahead of the one year anniversary of the infamous disappearances of the 43 Ayotzinapa students. The case, which has shaken the country over the past year, is rife with controversies and contradictions and is still far from being resolved. ... More
Montevideo, September 23 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Uruguayan women's organization Cotidiano Mujer has presented a report analyzing the effects of the gender quota system implemented in the 2015 local elections, showing the outcome could be even lower than in the past in some cases. ... More
Guatemala City, September 23 (teleSUR-RHC)-- A Guatemalan court has ordered the confiscation of a bank account and six countryside houses belonging to former president Otto Perez Molina, who resigned on September 3rd over corruption allegations, said judge Marco Antonio Villeda on Tuesday. ... More
La Paz, September 23 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Bolivian government will hold a national referendum next February to determine if the country’s current President Evo Morales will be allowed to run in the 2019 presidential election, the country’s Senate President announced on Tuesday. ... More
Bogotá, September 23 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos revealed on Tuesday part of his administration's comprehensive strategy aimed at providing poor farmers with alternatives to illicit coca crops, as the forced eradication approach implemented for the past two decades has failed so far to address drug-trafficking and poverty in rural areas.... More
Washington, September 23 (RHC)-- Pope Francis has called the U.S. blockade of Cuba by its name -- a "blockade." According to CubaDebate, this the first time in 17 years that a Pope has not called the blockade "an embargo."... More
Havana, September 23 (RHC)-- Cuba's Litz Alfonso Ballet Company is preparing a tour of several Mexican cities, according to the general director of the dance company. ... More
Pinar del Rio, September 23 (RHC)-- The outstanding natural scenes of the Viñales Valley, in the western Cuban province of Pinar del Rio, is the green zone picked by 160 tour-operators, travel agents and journalists taking part of the 10th International Nature Tourism Event, Turnat-2015.... More
Quito, September 22 (RHC)-- The presidents of Venezuela and Colombia met on Monday in host country Ecuador and have agreed to normalize border relations.... More
Havana, September 22 (RHC)-- The Ninth Symposium of Technical Criminologists begins tomorrow in Havana, where experts and forensic investigators from 11 countries will expand ties with institutions dedicated to teaching, application and development of this science.... More
Camaguey, September 22 (RHC)-- Nearly 300 delegates from 15 countries will exchange updated concepts and criteria in the context of the 26th International Congress of Orthopedics and Traumatology, which officially begins tomorrow, Wednesday, in the Cuban city of Camaguey. ... More
Havana, September 22 (RHC)-- The 10th International Event on Natural Tourism, Turnat 2015, begins today, where more than 150 travel agents and tour operators from around will present new products related to eco-tourism. ... More
Washington, September 22 (RHC)-- Pope Francis arrives in Washington, D.C., today from Cuba for the start of his historic U.S. tour. ... More
Bogotá, September 22 (teleSUR-RHC)-- For the second time this month, over 300 Colombians, displaced during the armed conflict between the government and rebels, took to the streets, demanding government aid for housing, as they occupied an abandoned building in the capital's center. ... More
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