Venezuelans seeking a visa for leave to the United States for the first time will no longer be able to apply for one, the U.S. embassy in Caracas announced, due to the socialist government’s forced reduction of the number of American staff working there.
President Barack Obama’s visit to Vietnam, in which he announced the end of an embargo on arms sales to the southeast Asian country, is an attempt to destabilize the region that exposes Washington’s lack of interest in human rights, according to Chinese state-controlled media.
A spokesperson for Coca-Cola confirmed Monday that the corporate giant would stop making its signature beverage in Venezuela, as the nation’s sugar shortage makes it impossible to continue production.
The end of China’s one-child policy, which resulted in forced abortions and sterilizations for millions, has triggered a new crisis: parents are struggling to schedule medical appointments for their children due to the severe lack of pediatricians to address the population surge.
Thousands of leftist supporters of ousted former President Dilma Rousseff gathered in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday. They want interim President Michel Temer to step down, citing the new government’s call to review the expansive social programs put in place during Rousseff’s tenure.
The United States is already home to hundreds of Zika patients, with a local transmission hub in the territory of Puerto Rico. But health officials are warning that Zika-carrying mosquitos could be sweeping the continental U.S. within the next month, making it extremely difficult for the government to track who has Zika and prevent it from spreading.
Populist firebrand Rodrigo Duterte is ready to assume the presidency of the Philippines in June, preparing an array of zero-tolerance laws against crime, including bans on public smoking and late-night drinking. What he will not be preparing for is a move into the presidential palace, he says, because he has been there and it is haunted.
A U.S. broadcaster is about to confuse millions of Americans by broadcasting the Eurovision Song Contest. You will probably be one of them.
Fernando Collor de Mello knows the Brazilian impeachment process well. In 1992, as president, he faced impeachment proceedings against him for alleged corrupt activity. He stepped down before the Senate could vote him out, has returned as a senator, and voted “yes” to impeach now ex-president Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday.
Brazil’s new president Michel Temer promised to return trust and “confidence” in the executive government to the Brazilian people in his first speech as president, shortly after Dilma Rousseff was informed that her impeachment was official and she would be forced to step down.
The “Bolivarian Revolution” is facing the biggest challenge in its history, as Latin America’s impoverished people turn on their socialist leaders. With Dilma Rousseff out as Brazil’s president and a recall effort started on Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, Cuba stands to lose friendships it has taken decades to cultivate in the region.
The Venezuelan opposition has begun a process to recall socialist President Nicolás Maduro, one that has outraged Venezuelans as the government stalls verifying the signatures to allow the process to go on. Thousands took to the streets Wednesday to demand Maduro address the recall effort properly, triggering widespread police violence.
A new study has allowed scientists to watch the Zika virus destroy nascent brain cells in mice fetuses, proving definitively the link between the virus and birth defects in humans as well as cementing suspicions that the strain of Zika spreading in Latin America is a more dangerous mutation than those seen previously.
The Senate of Brazil has temporarily deposed President Dilma Rousseff, replacing her for 180 days with her vice president until her impeachment trial concludes.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will not be presiding over this year’s Summer Olympics. The nation’s Senate has voted to impeach her, and as of Thursday morning, she is no longer in power, replaced by Vice President Michel Temer.
A private group in Taiwan has filed to intervene in a case at the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, asserting that at least one territory in the South China Sea belongs to neither the Philippines nor China, but to the “Republic of China,” Taiwan.
Blasting the World Health Organization’s (WHO) silence on the Zika virus in Latin America as “deplorable, incompetent and dangerous,” professor Amir Attaran writes in the Harvard Public Health Review that there is no way to continue with the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on schedule without exposing millions to the threat of contracting Zika virus.
“If I wanted to kill him, I would have,” the gunman responsible for an assassination attempt against newspaper editor Can Dündar last week said of his attack, hours before Dündar was sentenced to five years in prison for publishing a report unfavorable to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Manny Pacquiao, arguably the greatest boxing star in the history of the Philippines, has become the nation’s newest senator, running on a pro-Christian, anti-poverty platform. The election victory this Monday likely cements his decision to retire from the ring.
Following the cancelation of a similar exercise in April, a U.S. Navy missile destroyer has completed a voyage within 12 nautical miles of Fiery Cross Reef, a contested territory in the South China Sea. Beijing responded by demanding the ship leave the area “a dozen times,” CNN reports.
As ongoing operations have left the Islamic State-affiliated terror group Boko Haram significantly depleted of ammunition and members, the group is now offering business loans to poor Nigerians in exchange for spying on local soldiers, conversion to Islam, or joining the Boko Haram jihad entirely.
The Philippines has a new president: an aggressively anti-crime mayor who has vowed to jet-ski to the disputed territories of the South China Sea and personally plant a Filipino flag. China’s state media have reacted to Rodrigo Duterte’s election with an invite to “win-win cooperation” – coupled with a threat that it will respond in kind to any “blackmail” regarding its colonization of Philippine territory.
After a tumultuous 24 hours and a failed attempted at halting the process, Brazil’s Senate will vote Wednesday on whether to impeach socialist President Dilma Rousseff.
The American Christian missionary Kenneth Bae — who spent over 700 days as a captive of the North Korean communist regime — says the Holy Spirit held his hand through an “interrogation” exercise.
From the reports coming out of the country, it can be easy to dismiss the Brazilian people as having reached a point of such disappointment with their government that no politician will be able to win them over for a generation.
With 70 percent of votes tallied, Rodrigo Duterte – a populist candidate running on a zero tolerance anti-crime platform – is five million votes ahead of his closest competitor and expected to ultimately win the presidency of the Philippines.
The sweeping wildfire that has consumed a fifth of Fort McMurray, Canada, has slowed its march over the city’s surrounding forests, but experts still warn it could be “months” before the last ember is put out.
Venezuelan National Assembly Minority Leader Diosdado Cabello, the socialist party’s second-in-command and a longtime force within the national left, has filed a lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal for publishing reports revealing Cabello’s role as a major intercontinental drug trafficker.
Brazil’s Supreme Court has suspended the mandate of Eduardo Cunha, the president of the lower chamber of Congress, indefinitely. Cunha was the force behind organizing a push in the House of Representatives to impeach President Dilma Rousseff.
Cumhuriyet’s editor-in-chief, Can Dündar, was on trial for authorizing a report seen as unfavorable to Turkey’s ruling government. On Friday afternoon, an assailant ran towards him, shooting and shouting the word “traitor!” as Dündar was walking out of the courthouse.
A convoy of Royal Canadian Mounted Police have begun the trip into Fort McMurray, Alberta, where police expect to evacuate as many as 45,000 people from fires that have already consumed over 200,000 acres of land.
Following a week that has seen multiple fistfights erupt in the Turkish Parliament, minority party co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has threatened to take his Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and form a separate governing legislature.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has announced that his Justice and Development Party (AKP) will be holding a congress to elect a new leader, and he will not be seeking to stay in his post.
The Nigerian army issued a press release on Wednesday announcing that it had rescued 11,595 civilians held hostage by the Islamic State-affiliated terrorist organization Boko Haram and asserting once again that the group is close to total defeat.
A Philippine nationalist youth group is accusing the government of China of poisoning large swathes of the South China Sea to prevent Philippine and other foreign fishermen from benefiting from the waters’ resources, in an attempt to cement its control over the region.
A policy dispute in Peru’s presidential runoff election turned racially insensitive this week when the campaign advisor for candidate Pedro Pablo Kuczynski called opposing candidate Keiko Fujimori — a Japanese-Peruvian — a “chinawoman” and said her criticism of his policies was because “her eyes have gotten too wrinkly and she can’t read very well.”
Rosmit Mantilla, an LGBT activist and elected lawmaker for Venezuela’s western Táchira state, marked his second year imprisoned in a secret police facility after being arrested for alleged illicit activity against the socialist regime. He has still not been convicted of any crime.
The Chinese government has sent folk singer Song Zuying to Fiery Cross Reef, a disputed territory in the South China Sea, to perform patriotic songs and begin a tour of the region titled “The People’s Army Advances.”
Brazil’s Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot has formally requested the Supreme Court to allow him to open a corruption investigation against President Dilma Rousseff, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the nation’s attorney general, José Eduardo Cardozo.
As the media celebrated the incoming windfall to the communist Castro regime with the first commercial cruise voyage from the United States to Havana in nearly 40 years, a Cuban man was arrested in the capital city for welcoming the ship with a U.S. flag.
