Christian K. Caruzo

Cuba’s communist regime suspended all education and work activities for Friday and Saturday in a last ditch desperate effort to “save power” in the face of Cuba’s barely functional power grid.

Brazil’s Air Force announced that it shot down a plane allegedly carrying drugs that illegally entered its airspace from Venezuela, killing two pilots.

President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa claimed on Tuesday that there were “many irregularities” in the 2025 general election on Sunday, in which he narrowly defeated establishment socialist candidate Luisa González in the first round.

Bolivia must pay $2 billion plus interest to Chinese and Russian companies building lithium processing plants in the country, the Bolivian newspaper El Deber reported on Wednesday, even though Bolivia already offered them preferential extraction rights.

Attorney General of Venezuela Tarek William Saab said he would file a complaint in the U.S. against the Venezuela opposition for misuse of USAID funds.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro requested the resignation of all of his government’s ministers and directors of administrative institutions on Sunday, choosing to announce the move on social media.

Incumbent President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa narrowly defeated establishment socialist candidate Luisa González on Sunday in the first round of the nation’s 2025 presidential elections.

Ricardo Leal, a forensic expert at the Brazilian Society of Toxicology (SBTox), warned of the dangers of the nitazenes synthetic super-opioids arriving to Brazil from China in an interview published by the Argentine outlet Infobae on Friday.

Venezuelan non-governmental organization Foro Penal on Wednesday published a list of the names of the six American men who returned home last week as a result of negotiations led by President Donald Trump.

The president of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, said the U.S. Department of State’s claim about Panama Canal fees was false.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s offer to take in convicted criminals, including convicted U.S. citizens, and house them in the country’s “mega-prison” would have to first be fully studied.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro once again called for the legalization of cocaine and claimed it is “not worse than whiskey” during a disastrous six-hour-long meeting on Tuesday evening with his cabinet of ministers that the government broadcast live.

President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa announced on Monday that his country will impose a 27 percent tariff on Mexican goods to ensure “fair treatment” of Ecuadorian producers.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio received a warm welcome from President Nayib Bukele and his family at the presidential palace in El Salvador.

Six American citizens, unjustly detained by Venezuela’s socialist Maduro regime between September and October, returned home this weekend after negotiations led by President Donald Trump.

An American woman identified as 33-year-old Onijah Andrew Robinson made headlines in Karachi, Pakistan, this weekend by demanding the South Asian nation grant her Pakistani citizenship and $50,000 after a failed online relationship with a 19-year-old man.

Colombian Army officials found weapons belonging to Venezuela’s National Bolivarian Armed Forces (FANB) in a camp of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Marxist terrorist group, local outlets reported on Thursday.

Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro called for Colombians illegally in the United States to return “as soon as possible.”

Cuba’s communist regime on Wednesday rejected a plan by President Donald Trump to use the American military base at Guantánamo Bay to house illegal migrants slated for deportation.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro said on Wednesday that he will stop using Twitter (or “X”) after he caused an hours-long diplomatic crisis with the United States by refusing to accept a deportation flight and disparaging Colombia’s longtime ally in a post published at nearly 4:00 a.m. local time.

Far-left President of Honduras Xiomara Castro canceled a meeting scheduled for Thursday of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to discuss President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal migrants in the United States, citing a “lack of consensus” among member states.

Conservative former President of Colombia Álvaro Uribe Vélez helped defuse a short-lived diplomatic crisis between Colombia and the United States caused by far-left President Gustavo Petro on Sunday, The New York Times reported on Monday.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro on Monday refuted claims that he was in a state of inebriation when he published a late-night social media message that caused a short-lived diplomatic crisis with the United States on Sunday.

Brazil’s Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned the head of the U.S. embassy in Brasilia Gabriel Escobar to demand explanations on the “degrading treatment” that a group of 88 Brazilian deportees were allegedly subjected to, local outlets reported.

Far-left President of Honduras Xiomara Castro on Sunday called for an emergency meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) later this week to discuss President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal migrants in the United States.

Politicians across the political spectrum in Colombia panned far-left President Gustavo Petro’s short-lived “trade war” with President Donald Trump and are calling for his impeachment and urging Congress to investigate his actions.

Ongoing violent clashes in Colombia between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Marxist terrorist groups in the Colombian region of Catatumbo have left over 40,000 displaced, local media reported Friday.

Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro warned on Thursday that the South American nation is in constant preparation for an “armed struggle” to defend “democracy and peace” ahead of a purported invasion against his authoritarian regime.

Cuba’s communist Castro regime on Wednesday launched military exercises to “increase the country’s readiness for defense” following the start of President Donald Trump’s new administration.

President of Argentina Javier Milei delivered a scathing condemnation of woke ideology at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, describing the “woke mind virus” as an “epidemic that must be cured and the cancer that must be eradicated.”

Heads of state and officials from Latin America’s leftist governments and authoritarian regimes issued statements this week marking the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, condemning Trump’s firm stance against authoritarianism.

The government of Panama announced on Tuesday that it sent a formal letter to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressing its “concerns” over President Donald Trump’s statements on having the United States retake control of the Panama Canal.

President of Argentina Javier Milei and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni appeared to spend much of their time together during President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday.

President Donald Trump, in the first hours of his administration, revoked former President Joe Biden’s decision to remove Cuba from the United States’ list of state sponsors of terrorism (SST).

The governments of ten Latin American nations expressed concern over the “threat” of mass deportations under President Donald Trump in a joint statement released over the weekend.

President of Argentina Javier Milei blamed the “regime” of Brazilian radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for not allowing conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro to travel to the United States for the inauguration of President Donald Trump.