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 One month after suffering a tough defeat in a referendum over a
socialist constitution, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez carried out a
comprehensive cabinet reshuffle, including the naming of a new vice
president.
On Friday, new Chief of Staff Jesse Chacon, until now at the helm
in the telecommunications ministry, revealed 12...
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 The volcano Llaima in southern Chile continued to erupt Wednesday,
spewing fire and lava and forcing authorities to evacuate some 150
tourists and residents.
Since Tuesday, fire and lava have been shooting about 1,000 metres
above the volcano, which is located some 900 kilometres south of the
Chilean capital, Santiago.
The...
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 A long-awaited handover of three high profile hostages by left-wing
rebels in Colombia remained up in the air Sunday amid uncertainty over
whether Venezuelan officials had been given the location of where the
release was to take place.
Top officials from seven countries, as well as members of the
International Committee of the Red...
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 The much-awaited handover of three high profile hostages by left-wing
rebels in Colombia has been postponed until Sunday at the earliest,
Venezuelan officials said.
A complicated handover process, involving multiple countries in the
region, was supposed to take place at a secret jungle location
Saturday. The release has been...
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 Three high profile hostages being held by left-wing rebels in Colombia
could be released as early as Saturday as a complicated process
involving multiple countries in the region has begun.
The expected release is the latest twist in the mediation efforts
of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has been a key figure in
trying to...
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 The government of Colombia on Wednesday agreed to a humanitarian
operation that would see three high profile hostages released by
left-wing rebels - a plan mediated and proposed by the government of
Venezuela.
The government delegated Colombian Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos
Restrepo to be its representative at the handover,...
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 France is prepared to accept members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces
of Colombia (FARC) released by the Colombian government in any hostage
exchange, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Wednesday.
Fillon told Europe 1 radio that other European or Latin American
countries could also be used in a possible exchange and that...
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 The death toll from tropical storm Olga climbed to more than 30 on the
Caribbean island of Hispaniola, local newspaper reports said Friday.
Twelve Haitian seasonal workers drowned in flooding late Thursday
on the Dominican Republic side of the island, which has been drenched
by days of rain that unleashed mudslides and...
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 Tropical Storm Olga left at least 22 people dead in the Dominican
Republic and one dead in Haiti after drenching the Caribbean island of
Hispaniola and moving west toward Cuba.
Dominican authorities said Thursday that 34,480 people had to be evacuated and 7,594 homes suffered damage.
The toll could rise. Dominican Republic...
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 Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was sentenced Tuesday to six
years in jail, over an illegal search carried out in 2000 in an
apartment owned by former security advisor Vladimiro Montesinos.
The sentence is the first prison term ordered against Fujimori, 69,
extradited in September from Chile and facing multiple cases...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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