Sea survivor’s family thought he was already dead
February 04, 2014 GARITA PALMERA, El Salvador (AP) — A Salvadoran fisherman’s account of his survival after more than 13 months and about 6,500 miles in an open boat has proved a double miracle for his...
View ArticleProtests turn violent in Venezuela amid growing anger
The demonstrations are the largest faced by President Nicolás Maduro since he came to power last year. February 16, 2014 CARACAS — Shots rang out and tear gas clouded the air of a wealthy Caracas...
View ArticleMore protests as Venezuela leader calls for talks with US
At least nine killed, scores arrested in demonstrations against Maduro government, which called on Obama to negotiate amid unrest CARACAS — Opponents of Venezuela’s leftist government prepared for a...
View ArticleProtests persist in Venezuela ahead of Carnival
Supporters and opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro have clashed for weeks in several cities, and barricades were again present in some neighborhoods. February 28, 2014 CARACAS, Venezuela —...
View ArticleState Dept Again Announces $95K Grant to Teach Haitian Inmates How to Sew
February 28, 2014 The State Department did not have success finding a grant recipient last year, so it decided to again announce a $95,000 grant opportunity for a pilot program to train Haitian inmates...
View ArticleVenezuelan middle class seeks refuge in Miami
March 07, 2014 MIAMI (AP) — Carlos Salamanca fled Venezuela’s growing political turmoil in January with his wife, two teenage children and $7,000. Two months into their journey to the United States, he...
View ArticleVenezuela ‘sham’ resolution renews US scorn for Organization of American States
March 11, 2014 In the shadow of the Washington Monument sits the headquarters of an organization, the oldest of its kind in the world, founded on the pillars of human rights and democracy promotion....
View ArticleVOICES: Venezuelan Americans fight for our attention
March 16, 2014 MIAMI — Sometimes, when Emily Bello-Pardo tries to inform people in the USA about the brutal crackdowns on protesters in her native Venezuela, they admit they have no idea what she’s...
View ArticleMagnitude-6.7 quake hits Chile, 100,000 evacuated
March 17, 2014 SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A strong 6.7-magnitude earthquake shook Chile’s northern Pacific shore Sunday, and authorities said more than 100,000 people briefly evacuated some coastal areas...
View ArticleArgentina president defies US court order on repayment of debts
June 17, 2014 Argentina’s president has said that she would refuse to comply with a U.S. judge’s order to pay $1.5 billion to winners of a decade-long legal battle over defaulted debt after the U.S....
View ArticlePoll shows Rousseff gaining momentum as Brazil election nears
October 20, 2014 (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff is gaining momentum but remains locked in a dead heat with challenger Aecio Neves ahead of Sunday’s runoff to Brazil’s presidential election, a...
View ArticleBrazil suitors increase bid for Chiquita
October 23, 2014 Shares of Chiquita Brands International (CQB)surged Thursday after a team of Brazil-based corporate suitors raised their proposed takeover bid for the banana market giant by 50 cents...
View ArticleObama congratulates Brazilian president on re-election
October 27, 2014 President Obama, who felt the wrath of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff over revelations of U.S. spying on her phone calls, said Monday he “looks forward to calling” soon to...
View ArticleBodies believed to be Miss Honduras, sister found buried
November 19, 2014 Two bodies authorities believe to belong to Miss Honduras 2014 and her sister have been found buried near the spa where they vanished six days ago, Honduras’ National Police director...
View ArticleJailed Venezuela opposition leader rattles cage
December 15, 2014 CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Locked up and denounced by Venezuela’s government as a terrorist, Leopoldo Lopez may be out of sight, but he is not out of mind. Building-sized posters of...
View ArticleU.S. seeks to normalize relations with Cuba
December 17, 2014 Cuba has released an American prisoner it held for five years as part of an agreement to open talks about normalizing relations the United States and its long-time communist foe,...
View ArticleObama moves to normalize relations with repressive regime in Cuba
December 17, 2014 President Obama will announce Wednesday that the U.S. is beginning talks to normalize full diplomatic relations with Cuba. In what a senior administration official called “the most...
View ArticleObama normalizing relations with communist Cuba
December 17, 2014 The United States and Cuba exchanged prisoners Wednesday as part of a deal to expand trade, increase travel, and normalize relations between the U.S. and its six-decade communist...
View ArticleGangs in El Salvador target women and girls
December 22, 2014 SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — In a country terrorized by gangsters, it is left to the dead to break the silence on sexual violence. Rather, to the bodies of dead women and girls...
View ArticleSliding oil prices leave socialist Venezuela on brink of financial collapse
December 24, 2014 The ongoing plunge in global oil prices is pushing Venezuela toward economic collapse just as President Nicolas Maduro — the hand-picked successor to the late socialist Hugo Chavez —...
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