18 Jul in 0:55 Financial Times
This week Cuba declared a state of emergency in the country amid massive protests calling for free elections and more decisive action to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Pandemic devastated tourism industry and cut state’s ability to finance food imports, leading to higher prices.
Cuba’s communist revolution is one of the world’s great survivors. The Soviet Union may have crumbled, the Berlin Wall fallen and China and Vietnam turned to a form of capitalism, but Havana still stands as a lonely outpost of Marxist central planning. Only North Korea can rival it for longevity and unreformed socialism,
Spain is grappling with the dilemma of whether it should allow the courts to consider a request to extradite the leading Venezuelan opposition activist to Caracas. The Venezuelan government filed a request for Spain to return Leopoldo López to complete the remaining eight years of a 14-year prison sentence for instigating violence in antigovernment protests…
Spain Grapples with Venezuela Extradition Request
Voice of America
02 Jun 2021, 00:05 GMT+10
MADRID - Spain is grappling with the dilemma of whether it should allow the courts to consider a request to extradite the leading Venezuelan opposition activist to Caracas.
The Venezuelan government filed a request for Spain to return Leopoldo Lopez to complete the remaining eight years of a 14-year prison sentence for instigating violence in antigovernment protests and other crimes.
The former Caracas mayor, who has been one of the most prominent leaders of the opposition to the rule of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, fled the country last year and has been living in Spain.
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Spain has promised to donate 7.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Latin American and Caribbean countries this summer as its vaccine diplomacy contrasts with the more cautious approach taken by the United States.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged to ship between 5% and 10% of the country’s total vaccine supply in an effort to combat a third wave of the pandemic that is raging in a number of Latin American nations.
Spain’s leftist government is confident that 70% of its population of 47 million will be inoculated by the end of August.
Sanchez said this week the country was “100 days away from herd immunity,” and will send surplus vaccines to donate to Latin America.
Spain Promises Ambitious Vaccine Diplomacy in Latin America
Voice of America
14 May 2021, 00:05 GMT+10
MADRID - Spain has promised to donate 7.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Latin American and Caribbean countries this summer as its vaccine diplomacy contrasts with the more cautious approach taken by the United States.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged to ship between 5% and 10% of the country s total vaccine supply in an effort to combat a third wave of the pandemic that is raging in a number of Latin American nations.
Spain s leftist government is confident that 70% of its population of 47 million will be inoculated by the end of August.