Guiado is the interim president of Venezuela, and is backed by the United States. Recently, a chief justice had asked politicians to strip the immunity from Guiado, in order to prosecute him for alleged crimes while he wants to overthrow President Maduro. A Supreme Court justice says that Guiado violated a policy on not leaving the country after he went… Read more »
San Salvador – When Saskia ter Laag visited the spot where Salvadoran soldiers shot her brother, Hans, while he reported on El Salvador‘s civil war 37 years ago, she felt peace, but not closure. In 1982, the Salvadoran military ambushed and killed four Dutch journalists – Koos Koster, Jan Kuiper, Joop Willemsen, and Hans ter Laag – alongside the Salvadoran rebel fighters… Read more »
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced a 30-day plan to ration electricity after nationwide power cuts that have inflicted misery on millions of people and ignited protests, including one near the presidential palace in Caracas. The rationing plan will help deal with the outages that have also cut off the water supply and communications for days at a time, Maduro said on Sunday… Read more »
Guatemala City – Guatemala‘s elections are just two and a half months away, but whether the leading presidential contenders will end up on the ballot, disqualified, or even behind bars is still up in the air. “There is so much uncertainty,” Iduvina Hernandez Batres, the director of the Association for the Study and Promotion of Security in Democracy, told Al Jazeera. “Two… Read more »
Venezuelan security forces fired tear gas Saturday to disperse demonstrators who turned out in Caracas to protest massive power outages that have kept much of the country in darkness since early March. AFP journalists on the scene said the security forces blocked opposition protesters from concentrating at certain points in the western side of the city. Venezuela has been hit… Read more »
San Salvador, El Salvador – Mario* says he used to be an aggressive, domineering and an arrogant person. When his relationship ended more than two years ago, he threatened to publish intimate photos and videos of his ex-girlfriend in an attempt to regain control. He did not share the images publicly, but his messages were still a crime under Salvadoran law:… Read more »
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced a 30-day plan to ration electricity after nationwide power cuts that have inflicted misery on millions of people and ignited protests, including one near the presidential palace in Caracas. The rationing plan will help deal with the outages that have also cut off the water supply and communications for days at a time, Maduro said on Sunday… Read more »
Seventeen people have been killed and eight more injured after a double-decker bus caught fire at an illegal transport terminal in the Peruvian capital Lima, a spokesman for the country’s firefighters said. Witnesses said the fire on Sunday started in the bus’s motor at the rear of the vehicle and quickly spread to its interior, spokesman Lewis Mejia told reporters,… Read more »
Venezuela’s chief justice on Monday asked politicians to strip opposition leader Juan Guaido of immunity, taking a step towards prosecuting him for alleged crimes as he seeks to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro. Supreme Court Justice Maikel Moreno said Guaido should be prosecuted for violating a ban on leaving the country when he went on a tour of Latin American countries that… Read more »