Wednesday, 22 May 2013 11:10
Posted by Parvez Jabri
CARACAS: President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday denounced as "psychological war" a leaked audio recording that purports to show a power struggle among key followers of the late Hugo Chavez.In the recording, which has set off a sensation since it was made public Monday by an opposition lawmaker, a well-known government newscaster is heard accusing National Assembly speaker Diosdado Cabello of conspiring against Maduro.The newscaster, Mario Silva, dismissed the recording as a montage pieced together from his television show. He later announced he was suspending the show indefinitely for undisclosed health reasons.Cabello insisted there was "monolithic unity" among Chavez's followers, and on Tuesday he called a vote in the National Assembly to squelch an opposition call for an investigation into charges made in the recording.In his first public response to the recording, Maduro attacked the opposition deputy who made it public, Ismael Garcia."We have to keep our defenses up high and ...
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CARACAS: President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday denounced as "psychological war" a leaked audio recording that purports to show a power struggle among key followers of the late Hugo Chavez.In the recording, which has set off a sensation since it was made public Monday by an opposition lawmaker, a well-known government newscaster is heard accusing National Assembly speaker Diosdado Cabello of conspiring against Maduro.The newscaster, Mario Silva, dismissed the recording as a montage pieced together from his television show. He later announced he was suspending the show indefinitely for undisclosed health reasons.Cabello insisted there was "monolithic unity" among Chavez's followers, and on Tuesday he called a vote in the National Assembly to squelch an opposition call for an investigation into charges made in the recording.In his first public response to the recording, Maduro attacked the opposition deputy who made it public, Ismael Garcia."We have to keep our defenses up high and ...
CARACAS: The Venezuelan opposition has released what it says is an audio tape revealing intrigue within the ruling socialist party of the late Hugo Chavez and Cuban meddling in the country's affairs.The opposition says the tape is of a conversation between well-known state media presenter Mario Silva and a Colonel Aramis Palacios, identified as a Cuban intelligence agent, about a rift among Venezuela's top leadership.In the tape, Silva accuses Diosdado Cabello, president of the National ...
SANTIAGO: Chile's economic growth eased in the first quarter to expand 4.1 percent year-on-year, its slowest pace of growth in a year and a half, central bank data showed on Monday.The mining and services sectors helped lift activity in the first quarter, while drops in fishing, restaurant and hotels, agriculture and livestock and industry weighed, the bank said. Gross domestic product grew 0.5 percent in the first quarter from the last quarter of 2012, compared ...
SANTIAGO: A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Chile on Monday, the US Geological Survey said, but Chilean emergency authorities said they saw no prospect that the tremor would generate a tsunami.The quake struck 400 miles (640 km) west of Puerto Aisen at a depth of 6.2 miles, the USGS said.It said the quake had occurred at 5:49 a.m. Chile time (0943 GMT)Chile's emergency office said on Twitter that the quake did not ...
BUENOS AIRES: Jorge Rafael Videla, an austere former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest period of a "dirty war" dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, died on Friday at age 87.Videla was the first president to head the military junta that "disappeared" thousands of suspected leftists from 1976 to 1983, and he spent his final years behind bars for human rights crimes, including the systematic theft of ...
QUITO: A ring that smuggled immigrants from India and Sri Lanka into the United States through Ecuador has been broken up with the arrest of six people, Ecuadoran authorities said Thursday.Three Indian nationals and two members of Ecuador's immigration police were among the six people arrested in the port city of Guayaquil, where the smuggling network operated, officials said."They brought in nationals from India and Sri Lanka, and arranged refuge for them in various hotels," ...
