Yesterday, Ambassador Samantha Power, a member of President Obama’s administration, tweeted that Cuban activist Antonio G. Rodiles had been beaten, and dozens more had been detained on their way to Sunday Mass.
House Speaker John Boehner plans to make immigration reform a top priority, the top Republican told business executives in Dublin, Ireland, over the weekend.
On Tuesday the lower house of Congress approved a bill that strives to change the law prohibiting use and cultivation of the plant in the socially conservative country.
An international human rights group on Friday criticized the president of Venezuela's parliament for questioning the legitimacy of activists who last week had testified before the United Nations Human Rights Council.
British bank HSBC apparently did not see the humor in an Instagram video that shows six of its employees staging an ISIS-style "mock beheading." The institution called the footage "abhorrent," and all workers involved in the incident have been let go.
Today, Pope Francis leads the world's estimated 1.2 billion Roman Catholics and serves as absolute monarch of the Vatican City State. But when the pontiff was still known as Jorge Bergoglio, his fame was largely due to the tasty barbecue he prepared for his fellow seminarians.
A Mexican navy Black Hawk helicopter was attacked during a shootout on Sunday. Gang members opened fire on the military chopper in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
As the United States and Cuba are renewing their relationship with the opening of embassies in their respective countries. American businesses are taking advantage of the improved relations.
Embattled Venezuelan President Nicoás Maduro on Monday upped the ante in a rekindled border dispute with Guyana and recalled his country's ambassador in Georgetown, the neighboring country's capital.
Colombia's peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia have reached one of its lowest points as the rebel group continues to carry out violent attacks.
On Friday the 88-year-old former communist revolutionary, who had retreated from his position due to illness, appeared in public for the first time in more than a month to meet with cheese masters at the Food Industry Research Institute in the capital city of Havana.
According to new poll released by a nonpartisan research firm Gravis Marketing, right now it looks like the top candidates favored to go head to head will be former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush.
