Author: Regina Garcia Cano
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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in the South American nation, winning recognition as a woman “who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.” The former opposition presidential candidate is a “key, unifying…
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International Women’s Day is a celebration and call to action. Beware the flowers and candy
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Women across the world will demand equal pay, reproductive rights, education, justice, decision-making jobs and other essential needs during demonstrations marking International Women’s Day Friday
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Venezuela sets its presidential election for July 28 as the opposition candidate remains barred
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Venezuela has announced that its highly anticipated presidential election will take place July 28, but the country’s leading opposition candidate remains barred from the ballot
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Venezuela orders UN human rights office to close, accusing it of anti-government activity
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Venezuela’s government has ordered the local U.N. office on human rights to suspend its operations and has given its staff 72 hours to leave the country, accusing it of promoting opposition to the South American country
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Human rights groups in Venezuela demand release of prominent detained attorney and activist
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Representatives of several human rights organizations have held a press conference demanding the immediate release of a prominent attorney and activist detained last week
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Ecuador’s high court decriminalizes euthanasia, following a lawsuit by a terminally ill patient
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Ecuador’s high court has decriminalized euthanasia and ordered lawmakers and health officials to draft rules and regulations for the procedure
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Peru judge denies ousted leader Castillo’s jail appeal
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LIMA, Peru • A judge ordered ousted Peruvian President Pedro Castillo to remain in custody Tuesday, denying his appeal as authorities build a rebellion case against him. Supreme Court Judge Cesar San Martin Castro’s decision could further inflame violent protests across the country, where people have been demanding Castillo’s freedom, the resignation of his successor…
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White House: Venezuela has freed 2 detained Americans
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WASHINGTON • The Venezuelan government has freed two jailed Americans, including an oil executive imprisoned alongside colleagues for more than four years, as it seeks to improve relations with the Biden administration amid Russia’s war with Ukraine, the White House announced Tuesday night. Gustavo Cardenas was released following a secret weekend visit to Venezuela by…
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Powerful Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings has died
BALTIMORE — Maryland U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper’s son who rose to become a civil rights champion and the powerful chairman of one of the U.S. House committees leading an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, died Thursday of complications from longstanding health problems. He was 68. Cummings was a formidable orator who…
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U.S. Catholic bishops convene to confront sex-abuse crisis
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BALTIMORE • The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops convened a high-stakes meeting Tuesday under pressure to confront the ever-widening child sexual abuse crisis that has disillusioned many churchgoers. A key question at the four-day gathering: How willing are the bishops to give lay experts a major role in holding the clergy accountable? Francesco Cesareo, an academic…