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Textbook in France will Include Caricature of Cuban Anti-terrorist

Gerardo Hernández

A cartoon of Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, drawn at the maximum security prison in Victorville California, United States, was chosen to illustrate a chapter of a textbook that will be used in several Spanish schools in France. The book is being published in Paris and will begin to be used in April 2013 by students in their preparatory year to college. In its first edition 10,000 copies will be printed.

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Venezuela Seeks Way to Stability after Right-wing Violence

Nicolas Maduro

Caracas, Apr 17 (Prensa Latina) The search for the country’s stability is now a priority for the Venezuelan government after violent actions carried out by extremist groups and fostered by the opposition’s calls to ignore the outcome of the recent presidential elections. Even when President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday that the probably “coup d’Etat” in progress was defeated, security measures to ensure peace in this South American nation will continue today.

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Suriname Moves Toward Joining MERCOSUR

Mercosur

Montevideo, Apr 16 (Prensa Latina) Suriname is making progress in the procedures to join the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR), that sub-regional integrating authority reported today. The Foreign Ministry of Uruguay, a country that presides currently over the bloc, composed of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela and Paraguay (suspended), said a delegation of MERCOSUR visited Paramaribo, the Surinamese capital, this week to negotiate the steps to take with its authorities.

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The Venezuelan Ombudsman Today Repudiated Violence

Venezuela violencia

Caracas, Apr 16 (Prensa Latina) The Venezuelan Ombudsman today repudiated violence sectors of the right to peace and called attempts to destabilize the opposition, which seeks to ignore the results of the presidential elections. This institution warned that there is a defeated candidate (Henrique Capriles) interested in leading the country into violence between siblings who

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Fidel Castro Holds Fraternal Meeting with Maradona

Fidel Castro y Maradona

Havana, Apr 15 (Prensa Latina) The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, held on Saturday afternoon a fraternal meeting with former Argentine soccer star Diego Armando Maradona. Maradona arrived in Havana on Friday night from Caracas, occasion in which he visited the Mountain Barracks where he paid tribute to the Supreme Commander of the Bolivarian Revolution Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias, and met with the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro.

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Raul Castro Congratulates Maduro for Momentous Victory

Raul Castro

Havana, Apr 15 (Prensa Latina) Cuba’s President Raul Castro congratulated today Nicolas Maduro for his momentous victory in the Sunday elections in Venezuela. “Dear Nicholas: On behalf of the Cuban government and people, I congratulate you on this momentous victory, demonstrating the strength of the ideas and work by Commander Hugo Chavez,” the message stated.

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Nicolas Maduro Wins Presidential Elections in Venezuela

Nicolás Maduro

Caracas, Apr 15 (Prensa Latina) The candidate of Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) to the presidency of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, today won the elections to define the head of state in the period 2013-2019. According to the National Electoral Council (CNE), with the result of 99.12 percent of polling stations, the socialist candidate won 50.6 percent of the vote cast (7 505 338 votes).

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Nicolás Maduro Stresses Venezuelan Democracy

Nicolás Maduro

Caracas, Apr 12 (Prensa Latina) Socialist candidate Nicolás Maduro says that in Venezuela there is “a mobilized democracy” and a conscious people, that have taken on the election campaign as a way to heal the grief and pain over the death of President Hugo Chavez.

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Venezuela Denounces Opposition Plans to Ignore Elections

Venezuela

Caracas, Apr 10 (Prensa Latina) The First Vice President of the Venezuelan United Socialist Party (PUSV), Diosdado Cabello, denounced opposition plans today to disregard the results of April 14 presidential election. The also president of the National Assembly said that the right-wing is becoming increasingly desperate as their election defeat approaches and are as a result moving on to another agenda.

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A War With Korea Must Be Avoided

A War With Korea Must Be Avoided

A few days ago I referred to the great challenges humankind is facing today. Intelligent life has been on our planet for around 200,000 years, unless some new discoveries show otherwise. Not to confuse the existence of intelligent life with the existence of life itself which, from its elementary forms in our solar system, came into being millions of years ago.