Ecuador is a beautiful Country with plenty of raw materials . The access to the Amazon allows Billions of dollars worth of land. One of the biggest materials is copper. Copper is one of the most useful and important materials we use everyday without even realising it. Copper is used in most electronics, so it’s in your phone, your car,… Read more »
A former Venezuelan Supreme Court justice has fled to the U.S. and denounced the results of an election last year that will keep President Nicolas Maduro in power. Judge Christian Zerpa’s renunciation of the Venezuelan government comes as Maduro prepares to be sworn in to a second six-year term Thursday, Agence France-Presse reports. Zerpa also reportedly told a Miami-based broadcaster in an… Read more »
Geraldine Chacón, a 24-year-old lawyer from Caracas, went four months without seeing the sun while a prisoner in the Helicoide, the feared hillside prison complex administered by Venezuela’s secret police, where she was denied access to sunlight, water and food. “The guards told me I was a political prisoner, and for that I don’t get anything,” said Chacón, speaking by phone… Read more »
Venezuela Supreme Court judge Christian Zerpa has fled to the US to protest over President Nicolás Maduro’s second term in office. Last year’s election “was not free and competitive”, the former Maduro loyalist told a Florida radio station. And he accused President Maduro of systematically manipulating the affairs of the Supreme Court. In response, the court said Mr Zerpa was… Read more »
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 »
Vice president, Maria Vicuna, resigned on Tuesday December, 4th. Vicuna’s resigning is in direct correlation to the investigation surrounding her. “Prosecutors are investigating funds that Vicuna received from a former adviser between 2011 and 2013 while she was a legislator for former leftist president Rafael Correa’s Country Alliance (AP) party.” (Cohen, 2018) This is the second Vice president to resign… Read more »