Venezuela’s Roman Catholic Church has accused President Nicolás Maduro’s government of “totalitarian” tendencies and “brutal repression” of demonstrators during two months of political unrest that has killed several dozen people. 

Developers say the Golfito Marina Village & Resort’s deep-water marina will accommodate “gigayachts” up to 350 feet. 

Even if the French press did not give it much notice, the visit to Cuba by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius marked a new stage in the relations between the island and the EU. 

Less than three months before the most important soccer event in the world, mass demonstrations continue throughout the country. 

Cuba needs to attract $2 billion to $2.5 billion in foreign direct investment per year to reach its economic growth target of 7 percent, the Minister for Foreign Trade and Investment, Rodrigo Malmierca, said on Cuban state television. 

Representatives of Latin American immigrants in the U.S. asked Pope Francis to intercede with U.S. President Barack Obama to end deportations of undocumented immigrants. 

In early April Panama hosted the Ninth World Economic Forum for Latin America, and expected to host 600 leaders from government, industry, civil society, and academia from over fifty  countries, there to analyze the challenges facing the region. 

Legalization will not solve the world’s narcotics problem, the UN anti-drugs chief insisted, indicating his disapproval of the decision by Uruguay to allow the growing, sale and smoking of marijuana, according to the MercoPress of Montevideo. 

Sebastián Premici wrote in Página/12 of Buenos Aires that the Argentine government is one step closer to a compensation deal with Spaniards. 

In La Jornada of Mexico City Eric Nepomuceno observed that while Brazil will host the 2014 Soccer World Cup in a few short months, there are still “concerns.”