The protracted and useless war against drug traffickers, imposed on Mexico by the United States and accepted by Mexico’s neo-liberal administrations, has led to a security crisis and has turned the country into a huge mass grave, according to high officials of the Mexican Government.... More


The last four years have been the warmest since the pre- industrial era -- that is between 1850 and 1900 -- and United Nations experts say this dangerous anomaly is the result of the record accumulation of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere.... More


The UNICEF has just disclosed that the world is holding no less than thirty million children and adolescents who qualify as refugees, most of them without the company of an adult or family member.... More


The President of the United States Donald Trump has suffered a new defeat when judge Ray Moore, his candidate to a vacant post in the Senate in the State of Alabama, a traditional turf of the Republican Party, was defeated by the Democrat aspirant, Doug James. ... More


If Donald Trump has met huge storms as he sails his foreign policy through oceanic waters he has neither traveled with luck in the domestic scene.... More


The President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro has revealed the implementation of a new scheme to create a virtual national currency, in order to prevent the damage caused by the aggressive US economic war against that South American nation through the domestic moneyed circles that still operate there. ... More


CELAC, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, has just arrived at the sixth year of its foundation in December 2011 in Caracas, Venezuela, and is still involved in the struggle against hunger and poverty, one of its top priorities as evidenced in its first Summit, held in Chile in twenty thirteen.... More


As part of the modernization of its economy, Cuba is resorting to foreign investment in different areas, and every year it adds new joint projects that are catching the attention of entrepreneurs from all over the world.... More


Finally, one week after the presidential elections in Honduras, the Supreme Electoral Court disclosed the official results, following a twisted course of vote counting that has raised many doubts about the legality of the official results of the electoral contest.... More


The noted US intellectual and political activist Noam Chomsky has declared that humankind is now facing very serious dangers, with the capacity of either wiping out our species completely or substantially reducing its ability to survive.... More


Despite advances in the past few years in terms of legislation to counter violence against women, Latin America and the Caribbean continues to be one of the most dangerous regions in the world for women due to the high rate of violence against their sex within and outside their homes, according to data compiled by the United Nations and disclosed a few hours ago.... More


New Elections in Germany?

The failure of German Chancellor Angela Merkel in forming a new cabinet following last September's elections has led this week to a political crisis that could lead to a solution that has not been seen in Germany in the past seventy years.... More


Colombia Peace Accord in Danger

The Common Alternative Revolutionary Force of Colombia, the political party that replaced the guerrilla force following the signing of the Peace Accord in that South American nation, has denounced the Colombian Government for not following the signed accords and that the Senate and the so-called Constitutional Court have emptied the agreement of any practical meaning.... More


Mexico City has gathered experts attending the so called World Summit of Leaders against Cancer, a gathering where politicians, researchers and medical experts examined that disease charged with taking the lives annually of almost nine million human beings throughout the world.... More


One Year of Risk to Our Lives

On 9 November 2016 the world awoke to the news that magnate Donald Trump had been selected as the forty fifth President of the United States, a fact that opened up a period of uncertainty both within and outside the United States as the realization grew that humanity might explode at any moment and disappear from the planet.... More


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