Anti-government activists across Venezuela are toppling giant statues of Hugo Chávez to express their anger over the alleged stealing of an election by the late president’s handpicked successor, Nicolás Maduro. In the seaside city of La Guaira, outside the capital Caracas, twisted rebar and chunks of concrete lie below a pedestal where a group of...
Protests have broken out across the country as both sides of the Venezuela presidential election claim victory, with opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez claiming he has proof that he won. “The voice of the Venezuelan people has been clear through their votes, yet the morally bankrupt dictatorship remains deaf to their cries,” Isaias Medina III, a...
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is widely believed to have fraudulently won Sunday’s election, ensuring him another six-year term. Numerous regional governments cast doubt on the official vote tally, which showed Maduro with 51.2% of the vote with 80% of polling stations reporting. The opposition contends that the results are not accurate, and claims that it...
Venezuelans head to the polls on Sunday for their first full presidential election in over a decade after opposition parties ended their boycott and coalesced around a single candidate in hopes of ousting the current regime. “The de facto opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has galvanized the Venezuelan people to the point that both Chavistas...
Rescue teams on Wednesday found another body at a tequila distillery in Mexico a day after an explosion and fire, bringing the death toll to six. Two workers were injured. The factory belongs to the Jose Cuervo company, one of Mexico’s most famous tequila brands. POSEIDON VS. CHAAC: MEXICO ‘CANCELS’ STATUE OF GREEK GOD AFTER...
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations announced $60 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Haiti during a trip Monday to the troubled Caribbean country. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield also said the U.S. Defense Department would provide a “substantial increase” in mine-resistant vehicles to a U.N.-backed, multinational security mission led by Kenya to help Haiti’s national...
An aircraft that had made an emergency landing on a snowy mountain in Argentina was rescued by specialized personnel and a helicopter. The aircraft, a Piper PA-18, had to land on a frozen lagoon in the province of Chubut on June 29 due to technical problems. Its operator was rescued a day later. VIDEO SHOWS...
Police in Peru said Tuesday they have found the body of an American mountaineer who was buried by an avalanche 22 years ago as he tried to climb one of the highest peaks in the Andes with two friends. The body of William Stampfl was discovered on Friday near a camp 17,060 feet above sea...
