Venezuela

Iranian-Dutch avant-garde artist Sevdaliza returns with a riveting new video for her song ‘Darkest Hour’, from her critically-acclaimed album ‘Shabrang’.  In honour of Women’s History Month, the visual puts women from across the world front and centre, scored by Sevdaliza’s diaphanous utopia, to affirm womanhood and serve as a source…

The Cape Verdean court on Tuesday approved the extradition of Alex Saab, the embattled Venezuelan diplomat, to the United States.  This comes after the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) court ruled that Saab's arrest and extradition attempt was illegal. On Monday, March 15, the ECOWAS court ruled that…

News Paula Lindo 13 Hrs AgoTT, HEED THIS: A woman displays a placard with a message to the nation as she and hundreds more marched against crime on Sunday around the Queen’s Park Savannah. PHOTO BY VIDYA THURAB - HUNDREDS of women, girls, men and boys marched around the Queen's…

Features Debbie Jacob 6 Hrs Ago - Part I IT’S impossible to talk about the history of Carnival without examining the role that colour or ethnicity played in the celebration and the role that calypso eventually played in the festival. In his book Trinidad Carnival, Errol Hill says that “according…

/ Americas Issued on: 13/12/2020 - 08:00 A woman casts her vote during a popular consultation launched by opposition leader Juan Guaido to reject Venezuela's December 6 parliamentary election, in Doral, Florida, U.S., December 12, 2020. REUTERS - MARCO BELLO Venezuela's opposition wrapped up a "popular consultation" on Saturday, in…

Freedom and prosperity are gone under dictatorship, but she fights on Prosperity, peace, and plenty of opportunity for all.  To hear Henriette Pauchet talk about her years growing up in Venezuela, one would think of it as another American “land of opportunity.” Twenty years later, she had become a freedom…

Here’s one all-too-plausible way that Election Night 2020 might play out. It’s just after 11 p.m., when Fox News cuts live to President Trump’s reelection party. Millions of mail-in ballots remain to be counted in the swing states of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, but Trump claims victory based on the early…

The final vessel in a flotilla of three Iranian fuel tankers entered gasoline-starved Venezuela’s waters on Saturday, in the latest sign of cooperation between the two countries amid protests over shortages in the South American nation.The Faxon, carrying around 234,000 barrels of fuel, was directly north of Venezuela’s northeastern Sucre…

Oct 3 (Reuters) - The final vessel in a flotilla of three Iranian fuel tankers entered gasoline-starved Venezuela’s waters on Saturday, in the latest sign of cooperation between the two countries amid protests over shortages in the South American nation.The Faxon, carrying around 234,000 barrels of fuel, was directly north…

CARACAS – The start of Venezuela’s 2020-2021 school year is marred with problems both old and new, and under an ongoing fierce Chinese Coronavirus lockdown that prevents you from leaving the country. A crumbling infrastructure, lack of public utilities, teacher protests and strikes over their low wages, and other logistic…