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Budget cuts will affect travel to New York
NEW YORK, CMC – Secretary of the United States’ Homeland Security Department, Janet Napolitano, has warned passengers at John F. Kennedy International Airport to schedule extra hours for travel as the department faces a 5 percent cut in the US federal budget battle. Napolitano told reporters that while passengers at New York’s airports are yet feel the impact of spending…
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55 world leaders expected in Venezuela for Chavez funeral
CARACAS — Hundreds of thousands of President Hugo Chávez’s followers waited hours in a three-mile-long line Thursday to file past the late leader’s coffin as Cuban leader Raúl Castro and other presidents arrived to attend Friday’s state funeral. Castro’s unexpected arrival in the early afternoon at the Simon Bolivar International Airport was broadcast live by the official Venezuelan television network…
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Challenging times with passing of Chávez
WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States on Wednesday joined the global community in expressing sadness over the passing of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Chávez, the firebrand socialist and avowed enemy of the United States who transformed politics in his native country, died Tuesday at 58. He had struggled with cancer for almost two years. US President Barack Obama said it…
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Venezuela and the C’bean after Chavez
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Readers of these columns are well aware that we have always been critical of the undemocratic actions of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. For we hold firmly to the view that democracy demands the co-existence of opposing views, and people should not be punished for dissent. No one can deny that President Chavez is loved by Venezuela's…
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Crowdfunding Clean Energy
If you wanted to get large numbers of people actively engaged in helping to solve global warming, how might you go about it? For years, the main approach in the environmental movement has been to sound the alarm bell and implore people to consume less, switch to green products, recycle, and speak up to companies and politicians. It hasn’t always…
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Questions revived about exactly who should lead Venezuela until next election
CARACAS — President Hugo Chávez won an additional six-year term in October but was never sworn in. When he died Tuesday, after an 18-month battle with cancer, it revived questions about exactly who should be in charge of this oil-rich nation until new elections can be held. The constitution says that if a president dies before taking office, then the…
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Will Chávez’s Latin American legacy continue?
Hugo Chávez was a perpetual thorn in the side of the United States, sounding a constant drumbeat of anti-U.S. rhetoric and urging his Latin American compatriots to forge an independent, Washington-less path. And he drove home his points by force of personality and generosity with Venezuela’s oil wealth. He formed and was the driving force behind regional alliances, was an…
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CARICOM says no Caribbean student killed in accident in Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba, CMC – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) says no Caribbean student had been killed in a vehicular accident here over the last weekend. “The CARICOM Heads of Mission in Havana seeks to clarify that news reports which claim that five students had been killed in a vehicular accident in Cuba are misleading,” according to a statement issued by the…
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United States to help protect cultural heritage in Belize
WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States Department of State says it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Belize to protect the country’s cultural heritage. It said the MOU for five years “demonstrates a commitment by both governments to staunch the pillage and illicit trafficking of Belize’s archaeological heritage of African, indigenous Maya, Spanish, and British influences”. The State…
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