Cuba y Venezuela acuerdan nuevos proyectos para atención del pueblo

Cuba y Venezuela acordaron la ejecución de 56 nuevos proyectos para la atención social de la población, durante la reunión de Alto Nivel celebrada en Caracas el miércoles y jueves. El vicepresidente para el área Económica en Venezuela, Rafael Ramírez, destacó la profundización de la alianza estratégica entre estas naciones, "hemos podido poner el acento en lo más importante que es nuestro pueblo”.



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Yanukóvich y oposición logran acuerdo para superar la crisis en Ucrania

El presidente de Ucrania, Víctor Yanukóvich, y tres líderes de la oposición parlamentaria –Arseni Yatseniuk (Batkivschina), Vitali Klitschko (Udar) y Oleg Tiagnibok (Svoboda)– firmaron esta viernes un acuerdo para resolver la profunda crisis que ya provocó decenas de víctimas mortales y centenares de heridos. La suscripción del acuerdo, de seis cláusulas, tuvo lugar en la sede de la Administración Presidencial, en presencia de mediadores que representan a la Unión Europea.



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Would A Higher Minimum Wage Increase Inequality?

The increased earnings for low-wage workers resulting from the higher minimum wage would total $31 billion, by CBO’s estimate. However, those earnings would not go only to low-income families, because many low-wage workers are not members of low-income families. Just 19 percent of the $31 billion would accrue to families with earnings below the poverty […]



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Face of Venezuela's opposition

When Leopoldo Lopez turned himself in to authorities this week, he did it on his terms -- and not before climbing onto a statue of a Cuban national hero to deliver a passionate message to hordes of his supporters gathered at a square in the eastern Caracas neighborhood of Chacaito.



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VIDEO: Pro-Maduro Venezuelans on protests

Supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro talk to the BBC about what they think of anti-government demonstrations.



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Blaming Babies

[Tim Armstrong, the chief executive officer of AOL] explained it this way: “We had two AOL-ers that had distressed babies that were born that we paid a million dollars each to make sure those babies were OK in general. And those are the things that add up into our benefits cost. So when we had […]



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Venezuelan President Threatens to Expel CNN

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