Politics

• Saturday, September 14th 2019 - 20:17 UTC

  Low profile talks between Venezuelan government and opposition continue sponsored by the Boston Group

  

  A group of Venezuelan government officials and opposition activists are quietly holding talks focused on the economy despite the stalling of a formal dialogue mediated by Norway, according to nine sources involved.

• Saturday, September 14th 2019 - 20:09 UTC

  Trump claims Bolton was holding him back on policy towards Venezuela

  

  President Donald Trump warned that the exit of his hawkish national security adviser won't bring a softening of the US position on Venezuela. Bolton, a prominent hardliner in Washington's attempt to pressure Venezuelan strongman President Nicolas Maduro from power, was sacked last week

• Saturday, September 14th 2019 - 13:16 UTC

  Maduro wants Guaidó jailed for a photo with two members of a Colombian drug group

  

  Venezuela's state prosecutor's office said on Friday it would open an investigation into Juan Guaido after the interior minister presented photos on state television showing the opposition leader in the company of two suspected members of a Colombian drug-trafficking group.

• Saturday, September 14th 2019 - 13:03 UTC

  Hard-time “Special period” creeping back in Cuba, diesel shortage and long queues

  

  Havana awoke on Thursday to long lines at gas stations and public transportation stops after President Miguel Diaz-Canel warned fellow Cubans to expect fuel shortages and blackouts that he blamed on US sanctions.

• Saturday, September 14th 2019 - 12:21 UTC

  Bolsonaro still in hospital returns to feeding with liquids

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro had a feeding tube removed from his nose on Friday, doctors said, five days after another operation on his stomach, where he was stabbed during a campaign rally last year.

• Saturday, September 14th 2019 - 12:08 UTC

  Cuban King censor exposed to some of his own medicine by Twitter

  

  Twitter has restored some of the accounts of Cuban state-run media, journalists and government officials it had blocked on Wednesday, although others like that of Communist Party leader Raul Castro remain suspended.

• Saturday, September 14th 2019 - 11:54 UTC

  Fact-checkers accuse Johnson's Conservative party of misinterpreting BBC article

  

  One of Facebook's third-party fact-checkers accused Britain's governing Conservative Party on Friday of misrepresenting a BBC News article in its ads on the social media platform.

• Saturday, September 14th 2019 - 10:52 UTC

  Man who set the forest on fire, admits another Brexit referendum might be needed

  

  Former British prime minister David Cameron, who took the decision in 2016 to hold a referendum on the country's membership of the European Union, said another vote may be needed to resolve the Brexit impasse.

• Saturday, September 14th 2019 - 10:42 UTC

  Venezuela “ready” to defend itself, says foreign minister after meeting with US rights chief Bachelet

  

  Venezuela is “ready” to defend itself, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said on Friday, after Washington invoked a regional defense pact that might justify such a move.“We are ready to protect ourselves, we are ready to react,” Arreaza told a news conference after meeting in Geneva with UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet.

• Friday, September 13th 2019 - 19:20 UTC

  Argentine Lower House unanimously approves draft emergency food law

  

  Argentine lawmakers on Thursday unanimously approved a draft emergency food law to free up resources for social programs amid a worsening economic crisis. The bill, yet to be approved by the Senate, would provide a 50 percent increase in food assistance programs to growing numbers of poor.