Five Venezuelan cops die in chopper crash

Five members of Venezuela's PNB national police force died Thursday when the helicopter they were using to pursue a group of kidnappers in a rural part of Caracas crashed, PNB director Luis Karabi said. The helicopter crashed in an uninhabited area near the Antimano neighbourhood in the northeastern part of the capital in conditions of very low visibility due to a thick fog that covered the ...

ELN Greets Peace Forum for Colombia in Porto Alegre

Bogota, May 24 (Prensa Latina) The leader of the Ejercito de Liberacin Nacional (ELN)guerilla, Nicolas Rodriguez, reiterated his willingness to engage in dialogue with the Colombian government while greeting the peace forum in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre. The meeting, inaugurated today in the Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Sul in support of talks between the Government and the ...

Evo Morales Describes Chavez as Irreplaceable Leader

La Paz, May 24 (Prensa Latina) Evo Morales described the late President Hugo Chavez, as a Latin American leader irreplaceable and highlighted his oratory, sense of humor and his contact with the people. In an interview about his personal life published in this month's edition of Oxigeno Magazine, Morales confessed the deep regret caused by the death of the Venezuelan leader last March and ...

Venezuelas PDVSA says gets $1 bln credit line from Schlumberger

MORICHAL, Venezuela | Fri May 24, 2013 3:46pm EDT MORICHAL, Venezuela May 24 (Reuters) - Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA will receive a $1 billion revolving credit line from oil services giant Schlumberger, the OPEC nation's oil minister said on Friday. The two companies also signed an agreement to create an oil services joint venture that will help increase production in ...

Colombia ‘False Positive’ Killings Still Ongoing According To Report

Colombian Defence Minister Rodrigo Rivera and Police chief. (Photo: Globovision) The Centre for Popular Research and Education (Cinep) in Bogot has reported that during 2012 there were 11 separate cases of extrajudicial executions in Colombia, suggesting that executions known as ‘false positives’ are still ongoing. A further eight cases of arbitrary detention have also been ...