Venezuela

By Cassandra Garrison SAN SALVADOR DE JUJUY, Argentina (Reuters) - In Argentina's remote northern province of Jujuy, Chinese telecoms giant ZTE is installing a little slice of the Asian nation's vast surveillance state - security cameras that the local gover…

By Cassandra Garrison SAN SALVADOR DE JUJUY, Argentina (Reuters) - In Argentina's remote northern province of Jujuy, Chinese telecoms giant ZTE is installing a little slice of the Asian nation's vast surveillance state - security cameras that the local gover…

Many if not most writers have penned and sent off for publication something that would have been best left on their laptop or in a drawer. Take Ken Silversteins recent depressing, semi-satirical Washington Babylon piece Eight Reasons the Left Should Root for …

Now a report from the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights is out, on Venezuela, and it's profoundly ugly. According to Bloomberg: The United Nations called on the Venezuelan government to take “immediate, concrete measures to halt and remedy the…

Venezuelan security forces are sending death squads to murder young men and staging the scenes to make it look like the victims resisted arrest, the UN claimed.  President Maduro's government registered nearly 5,300 killings during security operations last y…

"In every case, witnesses reported how FAES manipulated the crime scene and evidence. They would plant arms and drugs and fire their weapons against the walls or in the air to suggest a confrontation and to show the victim had 'resisted authority'." A demons…

AMYGOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, June 28th marked the 10th anniversary since Honduran soldiers stormed into the residency of democratically elected Presi…

Image copyrightReutersImage caption Jesús Santrich, who is blind, is one of the most recognisable former Farc leaders A Colombian former rebel-turned-lawmaker remains missing less than a week before he is due to appear before the country's supreme court ov…

In a stunning reaffirmation of core European values, the next European leadership team will by led by women and men who are strongly committed to European partnership and opposed to the anti-European ideology of Boris Johnson, Viktor Orban, Matteo Salvini and…

A 16-year-old has lost his eyesight after being shot in the face by officers at a protest over the lack of gasoline in President Nicolas Maduro's Venezuela. A policeman reportedly fired pellets at Rufo Valendria as he protested in the town of Tariba, in the …