Venezuela

Poll after poll indicates that the only pubic institution Americans still trust is the military. Not Congress, not the presidency, not the Supreme Court, the church, or the media. Just the American war machine. But perhaps that faith in the U.S. Armed Force…

Matiado Vilme contributed to this report from Port-au-Prince. Thousands took to the streets in Haitis capital, Port-au-Prince, Sunday to protest corruption and to demand the president resign. You can understand, $4.2 billion what it wo…

Jacquelin Belizaire in Washington, Matiado Vilme, Renan Toussaint, Florence Lisene in Port-au-Price, Yvan Martin in Cape Haitian, Jean Hernst Eliscar in Les Calles contributed to this report. WASHINGTON /PORT-AU-PRINCE Haiti is bracing for more anti-corrupti…

By RFE/RL June 07, 2019 A regional bloc of countries in the Americas has called on the international community to put more pressure on Venezuela's allies, including Russia, to resolve the growing crisis in the South American country and help remove its "ille…

MOSCOW After years of increasing assertiveness by Russias military in waters and airspace around its borders, a Russian destroyer nearly collided Friday with a US warship in the waters of the Philippine Sea. Each side blamed the other for the episode, which …

Seven months ago, DER SPIEGEL correspondent Jens Glüsing asked the Brazilian Supreme Court for permission to conduct an interview with the country's former president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has been in prison for over a year. Until April, all intervie…

Sajid Javid has said he would allow international students to stay in the UK for up to two years after they graduate from a British university if he becomes prime minister. The home secretary called for an end to limits introduced by Theresa May, who brought…

Editors Note: In the last week of May, Jay Nordlinger was at the Oslo Freedom Forum, the annual human-rights gathering in Norways capital. His journal, which will be in three parts, began yesterday, here. Fabiana Rosales does not join us in person, but she j…

People watch the cruise ship MS Empress of the Seas, operated by Royal Caribbean International, as it leaves the bay of Havana, Cuba, on June 5. (Reuters / Alexandre Meneghini) Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. …

Ali AbunimahActivism and BDS Beat5 June 2019 Former Canadian justice minister Irwin Cotler was on stage as one of several inspiring thought leaders talking about pressing human rights issues at Montreal’s Concordia University on Monday. But one issue the ch…