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Reuters Created: Nov 24, 2009 HAVANA—Cubans are scrambling to turn off lights and appliances and children are going door to door reminding them to do just that under a government threat of dreaded blackouts if energy...
Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) has launched a "Spotlight on Spending" series to highlight items in his Control Spending Now Act, which includes 40 items that, the senator says, will reduce the government deficit by more than half a...
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The government of Cuba yesterday appealed to Tanzania to support its decision to pressurize the United States to free five Cuban nationals currently being held in US jails. Speaking during the signing of a five-year cooperation...
Dissidents rally for Dr. Ferrer. (Photo: Ainí Martín Valero) A group of Cuban dissidents gathered recently to rally for the release of human rights activist Dr. Darsi Ferrer, who has been unjustly imprisoned since July 21,...
It's time to end the counterproductive sanctions against Cuba, which have only served to strengthen its brutal regime This month Europe celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the collapse of the iron curtain . Tribute was paid...
Election Date: November 29, 2009 At stake: President, National Congress Background Honduras was once regarded as one of the poorest and least developed countries in Latin America. In 1933, Tiburcio Carías Andino—founder of the...
HAVANA, (Oct. 29, 2009) IPS/GIN - Three new international cooperation agreements channeled through the United Nations system in Cuba are aimed at strengthening food security, especially in the poorest parts of the country.
MIAMI -- Facing a group of presidents loudly critical of Washington, the U.S. government's Voice of America broadcast is expanding its audience in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua, VOA officials said.
The news that the Government of Sri Lanka is to close the internment camps where thousands of Tamils were illegally detained, following the end of the country’s civil war against the Tamil Tiger rebels six months ago, is...
