Journalist attack in Venezuela
A group of Venezuelan journalists who who were protesting peacefully in a crowded street in Caracas were attacked by people supporting the Chavez government. 12 Journalists from “Grupo Editorial Cadena …
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FARC commander ‘open to talks’
Colombia’s Farc rebels are open to negotiations with the government if they get guarantees for safe conditions for talks, the top guerrilla commander said in an interview. Alfonso Cano, who …
Stanford Caught Between Rights in His Search for Defense Funds
R. Allen Stanford, ranked by Forbes magazine last year as the 205th richest American, with a reported net worth of $2 billion, says he has no money for a lawyer …
Chavez aids Antigua after Stanford fraud scandal
The tiny Caribbean state of Antigua and Barbuda, still reeling from the fraud scandal surrounding Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, on Thursday found a new foreign benefactor in Venezuelan President Hugo …
El Salvador: Investigate Killing of Community Leader
El Salvador’s attorney general should conduct a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation of the murder of the community leader and environmental advocate Gustavo Marcelo Rivera Moreno, as well as subsequent …
A Chávez/Obama Showdown?
U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela Patrick Duffy resumed his post in Caracas last month after being expelled by President Hugo Chávez in 2008. But he better not unpack his bags just …
Madoff Victims Start Getting IRS Refunds
The Internal Revenue Service has begun to send refund checks to Madoff investors who paid taxes on money they thought they had made before the massive fraud was revealed. An …
Florida regulators failed to stop Stanford’s Miami operation
Desperate to prop up Allen Stanford’s financial empire, his Miami brokers jetted to South America with a sales pitch they said would deliver gold to investors: Invest in the Miami …
Lawyers balk at representing Stanford
Fallen financier R. Allen Stanford sat in jail Tuesday facing 21 federal charges while lawyers who don’t want to defend him for free worked to keep their distance. Stanford was …