2018 has not been a great year for Venezuela from having an inflated currency with no value, to millions of citizens fleeing to other country. Venezuela may currently be the worst off County in the Americas, and it doesn’t look like It is getting any better. A gun ban that was created by the late President Chavez. The ban feels… Read more »
CUCUTA, Venezuela/Colombia border – As Venezuela continues to crumble under the socialist dictatorship of President Nicolas Maduro, some are expressing words of warning – and resentment – against a six-year-old gun control bill that stripped citizens of their weapons. “Guns would have served as a vital pillar to remaining a free people, or at least able to put up a fight,” Javier… Read more »
Dec. 17 (UPI) — Paraguay officials detained 18 police guards and placed them under investigation after an escape Sunday of two Brazilian inmates from a high-security prison. Paraguay’s internal security vice minister said inmates Thiago Ximenes, identified as a criminal band leader, and Reinaldo Araujo, identified as a hitman, escaped without a shot being fired from the Agrupamiento Especializado prison in… Read more »
German reporter Billy Six, 32, is being held in Venezuela, the German foreign ministry has confirmed. Venezuelan rights group Espacio Público says Mr Six, who writes for right-wing newspaper Junge Freiheit, has been charged with espionage and rebellion. Relatives say he was arrested more than three weeks ago while reporting on Venezuela’s economic crisis and the mass migration it has… Read more »
Anytime Margara Bermudez has to make a call, she rides her motorcycle to a tree about five minutes away from her home in a small town on the outskirts of the oil rich city of Maracaibo. That’s the only place where there’s enough signal for her cell to work. Residents of Los Puertos de Altagracia have figured out that the… Read more »
Berta Cáceres spent the final hours of her life being tailed by contract killers. On 2 March 2016, at least four men were following the Honduran activist in the town of La Esperanza. They shadowed her as she went the training centre where her organization – the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (Copinh) – was hosting an alternative energy workshop;… Read more »
The sentencing on Thursday of seven men accused of murdering the Honduran environmentalist Berta Cáceres is only partial justice, but it should inspire anyone committed to ending the slaughter of land and nature defenders around the globe. A court in Tegucigalpa handed down guilty verdicts on all but one of the eight accused, including two employees of the hydro-electric dam company that the indigenous… Read more »
Cáceres, a winner of the Goldman prize for environmental defenders, was shot dad late at night on 2 March 2016 – two days before her 45th birthday – after a long battle to stop construction of an internationally financed hydroelectric dam on the Gualcarque river, which the Lenca people consider sacred. The court ruled the murder was ordered by executives of the… Read more »
A former national police chief in Peru has been arrested along with his partner for allegedly belonging to a baby trafficking ring, Peruvian authorities say. Police and prosecutors seized the former police general Raul Becerra in a dawn raid on his home on Tuesday along with his partner Cintia Tello. Both are accused of belonging to an organisation of more… Read more »
In the United States, a letter was revealed in which, clearly, urges Venezuela to be included in the list of countries that support terrorism. This list includes countries such as Nicaragua, Syria or Sudan. Leer en español: Venezuela promueve el terrorismo As reported by the newspaper ABC of Spain, the letter was headed by Senator Marco Rubio: “A group of… Read more »