Source: Miami Herald  For more than six weeks, dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez has crisscrossed the Atlantic, making a splash and garnering accolades as she hopscotches between high-profile events in Brasilia and Amsterdam, Mexico City and New York, Washington, D.C. and Miami, with an eloquent, unvarnished plea for freedom of [...]

Source: AFP CARACAS — Hundreds of thousands of supporters on Sunday crammed Caracas’ streets in what opposition presidential hopeful Henrique Capriles, trailing in the polls, called a fast-changing tide. “Today, we are winning this contest,” Capriles, the 40-year-old governor of Miranda state, told masses of faithful, despite polls showing him [...]

Caracas’ pre-election rally saw several hundred thousand opposition supporters take to the streets. Henrique Capriles Radonski the main opposition leader will face acting President Nicolas Maduro in national elections on 14 April. Click on the link below to see the amazing images. Source: The Guardian     Related PostsStudent being [...]

Source: Miami Herald CARACAS, Venezuela – Interim President Nicolas Maduro exhorted supporters of Venezuela’s ruling party on Tuesday to stop mourning the late President Hugo Chavez and spring into action to secure Maduro’s victory in a looming presidential election. Speaking in Chavez’s native state of Barinas, Maduro told a crowd of [...]

Source: Miami Herald BOGOTA – Drugs, lies and murder plots. Venezuela’s compressed presidential campaign officially begins Tuesday in a race that will determine the future of the Andean nation after the death of President Hugo Chávez, who led the country for 14 years. But the accusations and innuendos being hurled between [...]

Source: ABC Doing business in post-Hugo Chavez Venezuela is not for the faint of heart. Thousands of companies suffer under currency controls that all but deny them the U.S. dollars they need to import vital items into this oil-rich country, from food to cars to spare parts — even gasoline. [...]

Source: The American The State Department is reportedly considering dropping Cuba’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism. Doing so would hand Havana a major – and unmerited – diplomatic victory. Cuba’s Castro brothers have spent billions of dollars over the last decade seducing U.S. farm bureaus and agri-business to [...]

Source: Miami Herald Venezuela’s interim president, Nicolás Maduro, came out Tuesday fighting the acute depreciation of the bolivar against the U.S. dollar by ordering the indictment and jailing of the creators of lechuga.com, a popular website that thousands of Venezuelans consult everyday to check currency exchange quotes in the parallel [...]

March 21, 2013 Mr. President, there is much at the Organization of American States that needs to be reformed, but the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is not among them.  Yet that is what the Government of Ecuador, and some other Latin American governments, purport to be calling for [...]

Source: Miami Herald When Maria da Penha’s husband shot her in the back, leaving her paraplegic, it was the culmination of years of domestic abuse. In her battle for justice, she was fortunate to have an ally in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), a respected independent body, established [...]