Baracoa, (RHC-PL) May 15 -- The Alejandro de Humbolt National Park, a World Heritage Site, is one of the world's best conserved natural reserves, according to Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA) experts.... More
Havana, May 15 (RHC) -– Focusing on increasing production yields, Cuban farmers opened the 11th Congress of the National Small Farmers Association, which groups some 400 thousand private and cooperative farmers throughout the island. ... More
Santiago de Chile, May 15 (RHC)-- In Chile, two students have been shot dead in the port city of Valparaiso amid mass protests demanding a greater voice in education reforms promised by President Michelle Bachelet.... More
Cuban Leinier Dominguez defeated Russian Dmitry Jakovenko on Friday in the second round of the Chess Grand Prix in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Dominguez won in 36 moves with a semi-Slavic defense and earned 1,5 points and comes first after two matches.... More
Georgetown, May 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Guyana’s opposition coalition won the national elections on Thursday, ending the rule of the Indo-Guyanese party in the country for the last 23 years. ... More
Quito, May 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Ecuador's President Rafael Correa warned on Thursday during a televised interview that the right-wing of Latin America seems to be planning to destabilize the region's progressive governments. ... More
Mexico City, May 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Members of the Jalisco drug cartel in Mexico have received paramilitary training from foreign military veterans, including from the United States, according to various Mexican authorities quoted in a Wall Street Journal report published on Wednesday. ... More
Washington, May 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The House of Representatives rejected a proposal on Thursday to close down the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay. ... More
Lima, May 15 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Peruvian judicial authorities granted the request from human rights groups to re-open the case of thousands of rural indigenous women forcefully sterilized under Alberto Fujimori dictatorship in the 1990s. ... More
Senior Cuban officials told participants at the recently concluded 10th World Economic Forum on Latin America that the government is eager to receive foreign investment, and has taken measures to make Cuba an attractive investment destination. The meeting was a historic one for the country, which has recently initiated diplomatic relations with the US after half a century.... More
In September 2014, the Latin America Working Group Education Fund coordinated a trip to Cuba with Ernest Hemingway's grandsons John and Patrick to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Hemingway's Nobel Prize in Literature, which he donated to the people of Cuba, with celebrations in the fishing town of Cojimar and Hemingway's estate, Finca Vigia.... More
Geneva, May 14 (RHC)-- The United States has been sharply criticized over its human rights record by numerous countries at the United Nations Office at Geneva. Member nations blasted the U.S. at the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, rebuking the country over police brutality, racial injustice, detention of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay and the continued use of the death penalty. ... More
San Jose, May 14 ( teleSUR-RHC)-- Costa Rican agriculture is likely to experience major damages this year as a result of extreme weather expected to be brought on by El Niño, the country's Meteorological Institute announced Wednesday. ... More
The Vatican, May 14 (RHC)-- The Vatican will officially recognize the state of Palestine in a new treaty. The treaty concerns the Vatican’s interests in the Occupied Territories. ... More
New York, May 14 (RHC)-- Prisoners with mental disabilities across the United States experience unnecessary, excessive, and even malicious force by prison staff, according to a new report by an international human rights organization. ... More
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