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The Venezuelan government has announced that it is banning airplanes from Argentina from entering its airspace. The announcement also affects private aircraft registered in Argentina. The decision will be in effect until they receive compensation for what they consider the Argentine theft and subsequent destruction in the U.S. of their Boeing 747 belonging to EMTRASUR, the cargo subsidiary of thei...

Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigned, a politician who had the rejection of the Haitian people in his country, but the support of the US and the West. Haiti is in a profound social, political and economic crisis since many years deepened after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021. Henry's resignation was announced after a carry-on meeting in Jamaica and now the reg...

As Ramadan approaches, the Gaza Strip continues to suffer from Israeli attacks. The Ministry of Health reported that at least 85 people were killed and another 130 injured in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to more than 31,000 in the conflict between Israel and the Gaza Strip since October 7. The United States and European Union countries evacuated staff from their embassies and stepped...

The Peruvian Congress will debate this Thursday the dismissal of the members of the Supreme Court of Justice, a decision that has been criticized by national and international organizations for breaking the balance of powers and endangering the justice system. In this sense, the social movements demonstrated this Wednesday to reject the institutional rupture and to repudiate the anti-constitutiona...

Heavily armed gangs have tried to seize control of Haiti's main international airport in Port-au-Prince, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers with police and soldiers. It is the largest attack on an airport in Haiti's history. The latest attack came hours after the Haitian government declared a state of emergency and night-time curfew following violence in which armed gangs overra...

Heavily armed gangs have tried to take control of Haiti's main international airport in Port-au-Prince, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers. It is the largest attack on an airport in Haitian history. The latest attack came after the Haitian government declared a state of emergency and nighttime curfew following violence in which armed gangs broke into the country's two largest pr...

Venezuela will hold presidential elections in the second half of the year. The National Electoral Council will receive this Friday the national consensus document signed by various sectors where 27 dates are proposed for the elections to be held. The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, will present this Thursday his annual balance before the Federal Assembly, where he will make a balance on his c...

Venezuelan President receives proposals of the national debate of the 7 transformations, arising from the more than 60,000 grassroots assemblies held. Argentine government takes case against Chubut to the Supreme Court and the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, will file a "per saltum" legal recourse before the Supreme Court in search of an intervention in the dispute with the governo...

The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, denounced on Wednesday the start of a media campaign by the US government and sectors of the Venezuelan right wing to brand Venezuelan migrants as criminals and link them to criminal organizations. The Argentine government, presided by the ultra-liberal Javier Milei, will approve by decree that workers may choose the social security and mutual insurance...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Brazil where he will meet with Brazilian President Lula da Silva in Brasilia, and then travel to Rio de Janeiro to participate in the G20 Ministerial Meeting where U.S. Secretary Antony Blinken will also be present. Brazil is the last destination of Lavrov's tour of the region, which included Cuba and Venezuela. This Wednesday the High Court i...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Venezuela from Cuba as part of his tour of the region. In Venezuela he met with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Vice-President Delcy Rodriguez and his counterpart Yvan Gil where they discussed the strengthening of economic cooperation between the two countries. After Venezuela, Lavrov will end his tour in Brazil where he will participate in th...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived on Monday in Cuba as the first stop on his tour of Latin American countries. During his stay in Cuba he will meet with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla.  After Cuba, Lavrov will visit Venezuela and Brazil, where he will meet with Presidents Nicolas Maduro and Lula da Silva and then participate in the...

Venezuela suspends activities of the technical advisory office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. In Paraguay, social movements gathered outside the Congress of the Republic of Paraguay in rejection of a summary trial against opposition leader Kattya Gonzalez. Brazilian President Lula da Silva stated that the United Nations has failed to resolve the conflict in Palestine and strongly cr...

The National Assembly (NA) of Venezuela continued this Wednesday a Great Day of National Dialogue with Political Organizations, in the continuity of its work to build consensus and listen to opinions and proposals from various sectors regarding the electoral process and its schedule. The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Ecuador approved this Wednesday the consultation and popular referendum pro...

Venezuela: Sessions of the National Dialogue are resumed to define the electoral calendar in view of this year's presidential elections. This Wednesday a new meeting with political organizations is scheduled to be held to define the electoral path after multiple meetings where the Legislative met with different political, social and religious sectors.  Talks between Egypt, the United States,...

The Venezuelan Government categorically rejected on Monday the blatant theft of the Boeing 747-300 aircraft, with the initials YV 3531, belonging to Empresa de Transporte Aerocargos del Sur (Emtrasur S.A.), after the collusion between the Governments of the United States (U.S.A.) and Argentina. Several Latin American and Caribbean countries celebrated with parades and festivities the carnivals of...

Brazil's Supreme Court on Thursday ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to surrender his passport for 24 hours in the middle of the police operation, which was carried out this day against allies of the far-right for attempted coup last January 8, 2023. The head of the Supreme Court, Alexandre de Moraes, issued the decision in the framework of Operation Tempus Veritatisas, which investigat...

Haiti receives another year without elections and without a government elected by the population. This February 7 marks one year since the historic investiture of Prime Minister Ariel Henry by the highest authorities of the country after the assassination of then President Jovenel Moise in 2021.  In Argentina, the controversial Omnibus Law is once again being put back to be discussed by the commis...

The Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, highlighted on Monday the success of the public consultation called by the National Assembly (NA) for the elaboration of the calendar for the presidential elections scheduled for 2024. Furthermore, the President of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez, announced that the proposed schedule for the 2024 presidential elections will be ready in a period of n...

The president of Colombia Gustavo Petro reiterated his denunciation against a political campaign of judicialization to provoke a coup d'état against him and accused the attorney general, Francisco Barbosa, for violating the law and allegedly trying to carry out a coup d'état. The number of victims of the forest fires affecting the Valparaiso region reaches 122, amid the high temperatures...

The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, reiterated the dialogue in defense of state institutions against interference and destabilizing attempts promoted by the extreme right. After the suspension of the analysis of the controversial Omnibus Law, this Thursday the Argentinean Congress resumed the sessions to analyze such resource while social and political movements of Argentina carried out pr...

The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, expressed on Tuesday his support to the call made by the National Assembly (NA) to a broad and inclusive dialogue in order to establish the electoral schedule for 2024. At the same time, the Venezuelan Parliament unanimously approved an agreement approved by majority in repudiation to any form of ultimatum by the Government of the United States (U.S.) ag...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro stated that the mechanism for reviewing the disqualifications of the Barbados dialogues was drafted by some representatives of the political opposition and also ratified that the presidential elections will be held in 2024. In Peru, the court hearing to evaluate Alberto Fujimori's request for house arrest for the Pativilca Case is taking place. The accusati...

The United Nations Supreme Court will rule today, Friday, on South Africa's request for interim orders in a genocide case against Israel, including that Israel halt its offensive in Gaza. The decision is a preliminary phase of the case brought by South Africa before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, which alleges that Israel's military action in its war against Palestine a...

The Colombian National Police is investigating reports of an alleged coup d'état against President Gustavo Petro, after eight months ago the same president denounced that the right-wing opposition was orchestrating a coup against his government. The director of the National Police, General William Salamanca, confirmed that the institution is investigating the possibility of a coup against Pet...