Brasilia, April 9 (RHC) -- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff told her U.S. counterpart Barack Obama of her conviction, also shared by most Latin American nations, that the upcoming Summit of the Americas in Cartagena should be the last such meeting without Cuba, according to several news sources.

Bogotá, April 9 (RHC) -- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, in statements to the local newspaper El Tiempo, said “the time has come to see whether a rapprochement” between the U.S. and Cuba is feasible “to change those relations.”

Caracas, April 9 (RHC) -- Various activities will take place from Monday until April 19 throughout Venezuela to mark the tenth anniversary of the popular uprising that returned President Hugo Chavez to power, after the 2002 coup perpetrated by the political opposition in the country.

Havana, April 9 (Xinhua-RHC) -- Cuban leader Raul Castro welcomed his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez as the latter arrived in Havana over the weekend for his third session of radiotherapy to treat cancer, local media reported.

La Paz, April 9 (PL-RHC) -- Bolivian exports grew 8 percent in January and February 2012, compared to the same period last year, as a result of increased sales of hydrocarbons.

Quito, April 9 (PL-RHC) -- Ecuador will host the International Meeting on Social Struggle, Human Rights and Education from April 10 through 13.

Damascus, April 9 (RHC) Syria stated that it would follow through with the plan of U.N.-Arab League special envoy, Kofi Annan, as long as Syria´s sovereignty was respected and the disarmament of violent terrorist groups was guaranteed.

Washington D.C., April 9 (RHC) Members of the Occupy Wall Street Movement reiterated their call for a general strike on May 1st, also known as May Day, or International Worker´s Day.

London, April 9 (RHC) Information released on Monday shows that at least one hundred thousand more people will be unemployed in great Britain by the end of the summer.

Tehran, April 9 (Xinhua-RHC) Iran's Foreign Minister, Ali-Akbar Salehi, said on Monday that his country will not accept any precondition to the nuclear talks between Iran and the U.N. Security Council's five permanent members plus Germany (P5+1) scheduled for April 14th in Istanbul, Turkey, according to local satellite Press TV.

Lima, April 9 (ANDINA-RHC) -- Peruvian Minister of Women´s Affairs, Ana Jara, said that one of the main goals of her department is to place the National Action Plan for Children for 2012-2021 on the public agenda, as a policy tool for children and adolescents that will guide the State intervention in the next decade.

Ankara, April 9 (Xinhua) -- UN-Arab League joint envoy to Syria Kofi Annan is set to visit the camps sheltering Syrian refugees in Turkey's southern province of Hatay on Tuesday, local media quoted diplomatic sources as saying on Monday.

Tehran, April 9, (PRESSTV), -- Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) has announced that the first round of the fresh talks between Tehran and the P5+1 will be held in the Turkish city of Istanbul, and the second will be in Baghdad.

Caracas, April 9, (RHC), -- Venezuelans have kicked off activities to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the popular uprising that crushed the military coup against President Hugo Chavez.

Cairo, April 9, (RHC), -- An Egyptian pipeline supplying gas to Israel and Jordan has been hit by a major explosion, the fourteenth so attack since January 2011.