Andres Bello polling station in downtown Caracas. | Brian Mier I covered Venezuela’s three-week presidential campaign, the elections and their impact for Latin American terrestrial and satellite news channel TeleSur (English) – the multilateral public television news network funded by the governments of Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. I am an experienced analyst of Brazilian […]
TO THE AFP STORY BY AIRA-KATARIINA VEHASKARI A man pours champagne at the 200-year-old … (+) July 17, 2010 in Mariehamn. Finnish officials pop the cork of a 200-year-old champagne bottle after 70 bottles of what is believed to be the world’s oldest sparkling wine were discovered in a shipwreck 50 meters deep southeast of […]
Agota Adler was 7 years old and living in Budapest, Hungary, when she, her mother, and dozens of others spent months in cramped quarters trying to seek refuge from the Nazis. It is the story of families who were forced to go underground and live in abject fear, like so many others since the end […]
Rhode Island is the only state in the United States that celebrates a holiday to commemorate the victory over Japan in World War II. Now there is a heated debate about the holiday. Victory Day, the second Monday in August, commemorates the estimated 92,000 Rhode Islanders who served in the war and the more than […]
