Bolivia became the latest Latin American country to roll out free healthcare to the poorest citizens as President Evo Morales launched the Unified Health System (SUS), which will reach an estimated five million people. At least 70 percent of the Bolivian population will be covered by SUS, which was described by World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman Fernando Leanes as extraordinary… Read more »
An American citizen who working as a journalist in Venezuela has been freed after being detained by security forces early Wednesday. Weddle was at the main Caracas-area airport waiting for a U.S.-bound flight, according to the TV station he works for in Miami. A doorman at Cody Weddle’s residence said a squad of five men wearing black uniforms demanded entry and left… Read more »
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has sparked shock and outrage by tweeting a video showing one man urinating on another during his country’s massive annual street carnival. “What is a golden shower?” Bolsonaro tweeted on Wednesday, a day after posting the video in which a barely dressed party-goer writhes atop a bus shelter, plays with his behind, and then bends over before another… Read more »
Last year archaeologists in Peru announced the discovery of a centuries-old ritual massacre, at a site they believed was the largest known case of child sacrifice ever found. Buried beneath the sands of a 15th-century site called Huanchaquito-Las Llamas were nearly 140 child skeletons, as well as the remains of 200 llamas. While the reasoning behind the gruesome mass murder of the… Read more »
Bolivia became the latest Latin American country to roll out free healthcare to the poorest citizens as President Evo Morales launched the Unified Health System (SUS), which will reach an estimated five million people. At least 70 percent of the Bolivian population will be covered by SUS, which was described by World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman Fernando Leanes as extraordinary… Read more »
International pressure mounted against Venezuela’s leader Nicolas Maduro on Sunday, with Washington vowing to “take action” after opposition efforts to bring humanitarian aid into the country descended into blood-soaked chaos. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday that the United States “will take action” in Venezuela, as he condemned violence perpetrated by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s “thugs” after security forces fired… Read more »
The European Union on Monday urged countries to avoid any military intervention in Venezuela. “We must avoid a military intervention,” Maja Kocijancic, the spokeswoman for diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini, told reporters. “What is explicitly quite clear, from our point of view, is that we need a peaceful political and democratic and Venezuelan-owned resolution of this crisis,” she added. “This obvisouly excludes… Read more »
The US and Russia clashed Friday over how to assist ailing Venezuela, with Moscow pledging new relief channeled through President Nicolas Maduro and Washington slapping sanctions over the blocking of US aid it tried to force through the border. A day after Russia and China vetoed a US and European resolution at the UN Security Council that called for unimpeded aid deliveries, Washington said it was… Read more »
Russia and China on Thursday vetoed a US resolution in the UN Security Council on addressing the crisis in Venezuela, but a counter-proposal from Moscow did not win enough votes. The failure to take action on the two competing drafts laid bare divisions among world powers over the way forward in Venezuela, which is mired in a political standoff and an… Read more »
This past week, Hungary’s government has declared a policy allowing Venezuelan people seeking asylum to enter Hungary if they can prove Hungarian ancestry, however far down the road that may be. While these migrants are grateful for having a safe place to reside, the policy does raise some questions in light of the status quo of Hungary’s current administration, which… Read more »