Venezuela moves to relieve toilet paper shortage

CARACAS (AFP) - Venezuela's National Assembly approved a $79 million credit to import toilet paper and other personal hygiene products to relieve shortages in the petroleum-rich state.The South American OPEC member has the world's largest proven oil reserves but has wrestled with periodic shortages of several consumer goods since price controls were imposed in 2003 under the late ...

Uruguay joins the women’s presidential club Mujica flies to China and Astori to Colombia

For several days beginning Wednesday Uruguay, as its neighbours, Brazil and Argentina will be ruled by a woman. Lucia Topolansky, Fist Lady but also Senator and third in the succession line will become interim president since her husband is off on an official trip to China and Europe, and Vice-president Danilo Astori will be attending the Alliance of the Pacific summit in ...

Venezuela to Host CELAC Ministerial Meeting

Caracas, May 22 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela will host the Ministerial Meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in the Social Development and Poverty Eradication sector, to be held in July, announced official sources today. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said that he met today with diplomatic representatives from 33 Latin American countries accredited in this ...

Endy Chavez has played ninth-inning hero before as a Met | Mariners notebook

ANAHEIM, Calif. — As impressive as Endy Chavez looked hitting that ninth-inning, pinch-hit home run for the Mariners in Cleveland on Monday, he's done it all before. Chavez became the first Mariners player in 23 years to hit a go-ahead homer in the ninth inning or later. Ken Griffey Jr. did it in 1990. But on Tuesday, Chavez, who weighs all of 170 pounds and isn't known for home ...

Venezuelas Maduro warns of psychological war

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 ...