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As Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro shows new signs of flexibility, the Biden administration is weighing options for how to approach the leadership. “The question is whether the White House is ready to commit to a full-fledged negotiations strategy," said one expert.

Share José Gregorio Hernández was a Venezuelan doctor well-known for his faith. Pope Francis announced his beatification on June 19 in the midst of one of the most unstable periods in Venezuela’s history. Yet one quality of the so-called “doctor of the poor” is his ability to unite the country.  Cardinal Baltazar Porras traveled to Rome to plan for the much-anticipated event. CARD. BALTAZAR PORRAS Apostolic Administrator of Caracas “We were just at the (Congregation for) Divine Worsh...

Caruzo: Twitter Lets Venezuela’s Maduro Peddle ‘Miraculous’ Anti-Coronavirus Cure 23 Feb 2021 CARACAS, Venezuela – Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro has spent months promoting Carvativir, his “miraculous” droplets that, according to him, neutralize the Chinese Coronavirus in its entirety. Maduro’s is a bogus claim seemingly exempt from any repercussions on behalf of Twitter, a radical contrast from the treatment received by conservative figures in the past over their endorsement ...

11:44 EDT, 26 January 2021 Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is promoting a miraculous medication that he claims neutralizes COVID-19 without any side effects, a claim doctors said was not backed by science. Maduro on Sunday evening presented the drug Carvativir, an oral solution he said was tested on patients in a Caracas hospital and a sports center used as an emergency medical facility.  10 drops under the tongue every four hours and the miracle is done, Maduro boasted on live televis...

CARACAS: The Bishops of Venezuela are insisting once again that their country needs “a radical change in political leadership, which requires from the government sufficient strength, reasonableness, and feelings of love for the country to stop this sea of suffering of the Venezuelan people.” They call for efforts to be made to find legal, peaceful, and expeditious means to secure a “democratic transition” through early presidential and parliamentary elections “on the basis of freedom ...

Share In June, one of the names that came up often was George Floyd. His cruel murder by a policeman in Minneapolis, Minnesota, generated a wave of protests worldwide, including in Rome. Thousands of people took to the streets and challenged the pandemic to denounce racism. In the Vatican, the pope did not miss the opportunity to address this issue. POPE FRANCIS We cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every human life....

Best Reissues of 2020 By S&C Team | 23 December, 2020 More than any other year, it definitely feels as if there has been a shift in terms of the types of albums being reissued from Latin America. Sure, there are still plenty of tropical Colombian albums and 70s Brazilian gems, but a lot of labels are now going even deeper, unearthing Venezuela’s avant-garde pioneers, Afro-Colombian music that was ignored in its own country for a long time, funky numbers from Guadeloupe, as well as many esoter...

Best Albums of 2020 By S&C Team | 18 December, 2020 What a year!? It’s certainly been like no other. Well… except for the amount of music that’s been released, which appears to be as abundant as usual, if not more so. While some releases have certainly been delayed until 2021, their absence has been filled by other quarantine-recorded albums or some dropped early to bring a little bit of joy. All in all, the year left us with a list of 125 albums for consideration and that all of our writ...