Oleg Yasinsky presents his views on the current state of Venezuela and how facts and myths are contorted by the right wing and mass media. In recent days, the residents of Venezuela’s wealthiest neighborhoods received pamphlets containing the following message: “We, the active youth of Venezuela, consider it our duty to tell you the following: "Thanks to the vigilance of our activists, we have succeeded in ...

Ministers from several Latin American nations have met in Ecuador to discuss ways to deal with the exploitative practices of some multinational companies operating in the region. The First Ministerial Meeting of Latin American Countries Affected by Multinational Interests has been held with the aim of working out a common action plan in this regard. Addressing the meeting's opening ceremony on April 22, Ecu ...

Interview with Roberto Blueh and Juan Aviñó We had a chance to talk with the managers of a private company trying to implement a new model in the relations between capital and labour, as well as in the way their business is managed. Inspired by the Humanist Document, for the past twenty years these two Chileans have been trying to implement their vision of a company that develops and grows whilst meeting po ...

Venezuela's acting president has accused political opponents of drawing up plans to sabotage the Latin American country’s electricity grid and disrupt food distribution ahead of the April 14 presidential election. Nicolas Maduro made the remarks during a televised speech on Monday, The Associated Press reported. He did not provide further details about the alleged plots. The comments came amid mounting conc ...

Chilean President, Sebastian Piñera, said this Saturday that a supposed maritime case against his country by Bolivia in The Hague would be without historical or legal basis. “The supposed right of Bolivia to have sovereign access to the sea through Chilean territory, as well as the alleged obligation that Chile would have to negotiate on this lacks all basis, historical and legal,” said Piñera in a brief st ...

The Deputy Minister for Industrialisation, Commerce, Transport and Hydrocarbon storage, Alvaro Arnez, confirmed on Wednesday that with industrialisation of natural gas, Bolivia will increase its income by 500%. According to Arnez, Bolivia will earn around 6 billion dollars from the export of natural gas to Brazil and Argentina, an amount that is set to increase five-fold to 30 billion dollars annually, when ...

The case against Chile is for noncompliance with the 1904 Treaty of Peace and Friendship.  The Bolivian government is seeking to recover access to the Pacific ocean that was lost in the 1879 war. The government and congress of Bolivia are lodging a case in the International Court of Justice in The Hague against Chile for noncompliance with the 1904 Treaty of Peace and Friendship, announced parliamentarians ...

The Government of Ecuador reported on Tuesday that the country has started a process to revoke an investment protection treaty with the USA due to legal deficiencies when facing claims by US oil companies. This decision was adopted after the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, presented a bill to annul the treaty of the 27th of August 1993 which, according to national authorities, contains unconstitutional ...

Good planning is one of the main reasons for success of the Ecuadorian Government in its six years in office. To continue on this road of improvement in quality of life for Ecuadorian families, the Ministry of Planning and Development is putting together a new National Good Living Plan for the period of 2013 to 2017. The obligation for the State to plan the country's development is written into the 2008 con ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, aged 76, was elected in a surprise choice to be the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Wednesday 13 March, 2013. He will take the name Francis I. He was proclaimed as the first non-European pontiff in nearly 1,300 years, but clearly has a strong European ancestry. Thus, a Jesuit Argentinian is to lead the ancient Catholic Church into its future. That’s a positive ou ...