News stories by Humberto Márquez

CARACAS, July 18 (IPS) - China, with its investments, products, technology, and innovation focused on solar and wind farms in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as on electricity networks and services, stands out as a driving force for the region’s shift toward energy less reliant on fossil fuels and increasingly cleaner and greener. 

CARACAS, July 2 (IPS) - Having hydroelectric power without damming rivers, dismantling the environment or displacing populations is possible in Latin America and the Caribbean, with reversible power plants that take advantage of their mountainous geography, and pave the way for only renewable sources to generate electricity.

SALZBURG, Austria, Aug 09 (IPS) - A sea of white-gloved hands swaying gracefully to the rhythm of tropical music shows the audience in the hallowed Mozarteum concert hall in this Austrian city how Venezuela is combining musical education and social inclusion.

CARACAS, Jun 25 (IPS) - "The river is reclaiming its place, the water has risen up to here," says Ana Polanco, crouching down to hold her hand high above her head in the little tin house she shares with her children in El Hueco, one of the communities on the east side of the Venezuelan capital besieged by the polluted and deceptively calm Guaire River.

SAN CRISTÓBAL, Venezuela, May 17 (IPS) - A Venezuelan movie about a young deaf woman who is sexually abused by her stepfather, "Brecha en el silencio" (Breach in the Silence), took top prize at the second Colombia-Venezuela film festival.

CARACAS, Apr 16 (IPS) - Noisy pot-banging protests broke out in Venezuela's cities to demand a recount of the votes from Sunday's presidential elections, which leftwing candidate Nicolás Maduro won. Several people have been killed in violent incidents.

CARACAS, Apr 12 (IPS) - Venezuelans will cast their ballots this Sunday to elect a successor to late president Hugo Chávez. The choice is between his political heir Nicolás Maduro – the front-runner in the polls - and the leader of the revitalised opposition, Henrique Capriles.

CARACAS, Apr 02 (IPS) - The São Paulo Forum, which groups leftist political parties and organisations of Latin America and the Caribbean, sees a victory by Venezuela's acting President Nicolás Maduro in the Apr. 14 elections as key to the future of the left in the region, and to "containing the right".

CARACAS, Mar 18 (IPS) - Russian state oil firm Rosneft and Venezuela's PDVSA (Petróleos de Venezuela S.A.) have agreed to form a partnership to exploit an oilfield with estimated reserves of 40 billion barrels, strengthening the alliance between the two countries.