QUITO — Iranian Vice President Ali Saeedlu said Wednesday he delivered an invitation from Iran’s president to his Ecuadoran counterpart to visit Tehran for the Non-Aligned Movement summit in August. Saeedlu, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s deputy for international affairs, told reporters after meeting with President Rafael Correa at the Carondelet presidential [...]

President Rafael Correa of Ecuador has launched another attack on the “corrupt” private press, publically tearing up a copy of newspaper La Hora [1] and calling for Ecuadorians to boycott the non-state media, reported the news agency AFP [2]. “We can achieve a citizen boycott of this press. We have 80% of popular support,” announced the left-wing [...]

BEIRUT: Syrian oil minister Sufian Alao said on Wednesday a Venezuelan oil tanker with 35,000 tonnes of diesel had docked in Syria a day earlier and another was being prepared. “A Venezuelan tanker carrying 35,000 tonnes of diesel docked in Syria yesterday and Venezuela is preparing another tanker which will [...]

Press Release of Senator LugarLugar calls to suspend Argentina from G20 Monday, May 14, 2012 Last Friday, U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) introduced S.Res.457, which expresses the sense of the Congress that the Republic of Argentina’s membership in the G20 should be conditioned on its “adherence to international norms of [...]

Former judge of the Criminal Chamber , Supreme Tribunal of Justice, Eladio Aponte is in the United States, in contact with the Drug Enforcement Administration, and will speak publicly on the links between members of the Venezuelan government with drug trafficking and corruption, a senior US official told AP on [...]

A number of leading Cuban-American politicians demanded Tuesday a meeting with the North American head of the home furnishing giant IKEA, after a German newspaper uncovered documents that allege the company used Cuba prison labor to manufacture some of its furniture in the 1980s. According to the German broadsheet Frankfurter [...]

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By MARIANA ATENCIO Eladio Aponte Aponte, a former Supreme Court justice in Venezuela, fled his country through Costa Rica and is now talking to the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) about possible connections between President Chavez, his tight-knit circle, and drug trafficking. In an interview granted to the Miami-based television station Soitv, [...]

CONFERENCE PRESS UNDER ATTACK How Latin American Regimes attempt to destroy the independent press   April 26, 2012 – 9:00 am to 1:00 pm United States Capitol, Rayburn House Office Building Room 2172 Washington, DC   RSVP HERE   CONFIRMED SPEAKERS  Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) – Chairwoman, Committee on Foreign [...]

  Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has begun the process of purchasing software that will enable the government to monitor social networks, according to the Ecuadorian daily La Republica.   The official solicitation was published in the Public Procurement portal. The amount of the contract amounts to $214,000, and the monitoring official is named as [...]