On Tuesday night, Cuban state TV showed videos and pictures of Cuban leader Fidel Castro chatting with President of Venezuela Cnel. Hugo Chavez, who is recovering from a surgery in Havana. Two days ago, the Foreign Relations Minister of Venezuela N. Maduro announced that Chavez´s health situation as critical, and that information plus a report [...]
For decades, Brazil has been one of the countries through which the drugs produced in the Andean region are routed to major global markets, Europe and USA. The report released this week by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on cocaine and derivatives, shows that in addition to maintain and enhance that [...]
Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami says police have seized more than 5.5 tons of cocaine, and the Minister calls the drug seizure in eastern Venezuela one of the country’s hardest blows to drug traffickers in recent years. A Saturday message on El Aissami’s Twitter site says the seizure is “one of the most significant drug [...]
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, an undercover police officer in Ecuador said that “this is a great country with many outstanding people, but the narcos are winning.” Violence in Ecuador is rising across the country, with crimes of all kinds up 15% to 50% last year compared with 2009 depending on the [...]
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A publicity-seeking hacker group that has left a trail of sabotaged websites around the world has unexpectedly dissolved itself. Lulz Security made its announcement yesterday through its Twitter account. It gave no reason for the disbandment, which could be a sign of nerves in the face of law enforcement investigations. One of the group’s members [...]
CARACAS .- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who is in Cuba where he underwent surgery, broke her silence Friday to send, via Twitter, congratulations to the Venezuelan army and its annibersary, and “a giant hug to his people”. “Good morning my candangueros“, welcomed the Head of State, using the nickname that goes with the followers of [...]
HAVANA .- Cuba maintains total secrecy about the health status of the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, two weeks after his emergency operation in Havana due to a “pelvic abscess”. Since then Cuba has not disclosed any medical report on that intervention nor the health situation of Chavez. A source at the Foreign Ministry of [...]
The president’s brother Adan Chavez said Wednesday that the president could return to his country in 10 or 12 days on the eve of the presidential summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean (CELAC) on 5 and 6 July in Caracas. “We do not know yet exactly when he will return. We must [...]
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro said President Hugo Chavez is fighting for his life, referring to the health situation of the venezuelan colonel, after undergoing surgery for a pelvic abscess in Cuba and without knowing a precise diagnosis. Unofficialy, rumours in Venezuela are mentioning an advanced prostate cancer. “The battle that President Chavez is giving [...]
The U.S. government is spending about $500 million on “cyber technologies” to fight back. A portion of this is set aside for a virtual firing range of sorts to test out what they develop. This would also allow military personnel to simulate attacks in order to train security personnel to be ready for when an [...]
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