Latin America

Officials from Panama’s Prosecutor General’s Office on Thursday raided the offices of Panama Ports Company (PPC), a China-linked organization that up until recently controlled two key ports at the Panama Canal.

President Donald Trump said Friday, “maybe we’ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba,” and that his administration is in contact with the Cuban government.

“Interim president” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez, who has run the country since the American arrest of deposed dictator Nicolás Maduro in January, referred to President Donald Trump as a “friend” and “partner” during an event next to Maduro’s son, lawmaker Nicolás Maduro Guerra.

A man falsely identified as being on the Cuba-bound speedboat said he is “worried” for his safety.

American lawyer Barry Pollack, currently representing Nicolás Maduro, on Thursday asked a federal Judge to throw out the drug trafficking case against the deposed socialist dictator alleging the Trump administration is “blocking” the Venezuelan regime from paying Maduro’s legal fees.

Granma, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba, featured a speech from figurehead “President” Miguel Díaz-Canel on the top of its front page on Wednesday in which he declared that Cuba would “fight and resist” the U.S., shortly after Cuban forces allegedly engaged in a shootout with a Florida speedboat.

The Kremlin said on Thursday that the Cuban coast guard “acted correctly” when it allegedly opened fire on a speedboat from Florida on Wednesday afternoon, claiming to kill four people aboard and wounding the other six.

Cuba identified seven individuals of the ten it claims were onboard a Florida-registered speedboat intercepted in a fatal shootout.

A hacker successfully used Anthropic’s Claude AI to conduct attacks on multiple Mexican government agencies, resulting in the theft of approximately 150 gigabytes of sensitive official data including tax records.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Wednesday evening that the government of President Donald Trump is working to verify the facts surrounding an alleged shootout at sea between an alleged Florida speedboat and the Cuban communist coast guard.

American lawyer Barry Pollack accused the Trump administration of not allowing the Venezuelan government to fund his representation of deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, a report Wednesday indicated.

Venezuela’s socialist regime this week announced the start of a construction project to “transform” the Helicoide (“The Helix”), its largest and most infamous torture complex, into a “cultural center.”

The Cuban Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday that a Cuban Coast Guard vessel fired on a U.S.-registered speedboat, killing four men aboard and wounding six other passengers.

Pro-communist social media users have spent much of the past week attacking Cuban-American pop star Camila Cabello after the artist published a statement condemning the Castro regime for the devastating humanitarian crisis her family in her home country are facing.

President Donald Trump announced during his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday night that the United States has received 80 million barrels of oil from the socialist rogue state of Venezuela this year, a development made possible by the arrest of its dictator, Nicolás Maduro.

The government of Panama on Monday took administrative and operative control of two key Panama Canal ports following the Panamanian’s Supreme Court ruling that annulled the contracts signed with a China-linked organization.

The wave of intense violence unleashed by Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) following their death of its leader, Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, left over a thousand tourists stranded at the Guadalajara City Zoo in the state of Jalisco this weekend, local outlets reported.

Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced that her government was looking into taking legal action against U.S. businessman Elon Musk over a series of comments he made on social media. The American social media executive reportedly claimed that Sheinbaum answered to her cartel bosses.

The Reuters news agency reported this weekend, citing 11 different anonymous sources, that the Cuban Communist Party has begun withdrawing its agents in the country, including both “security advisers” and slave doctors from Venezuela.

Brazil and India finalized a deal on critical minerals and rare earths on Saturday, followed by an agreement between Brazil and South Korea on Monday to increase their cooperation on minerals, technology, cultural exchange, and trade.

Catholic priests in Jalisco, Mexico, took to the rooftops on Sunday to display the Blessed Sacrament and pray for peace in their country as a terror campaign in response to the elimination of a top cartel boss plunged much of the country into chaos.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro on Sunday acknowledged that the Ocean Mariner, an oil tanker intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard near Cuban waters this month, had loaded fuel in Colombia.

The Government of Mexico confirmed that 25 Mexican National Guardsmen, one prison guard, and an innocent woman died in a series of terror-style attacks that were a direct response to the killing of Ruben Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, the leader of the terrorist organization Cartel Jalisco New Generation.

Sandro Castro, grandson of late Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro, published an obscene video on Sunday critical of the piling-up garbage and fuel shortages in Cuba.

Nuyorican music icon, activist, and retired law enforcement officer Willie Colón passed away in his native New York on Saturday at the age of 75, leaving an unfillable and quintessentially American void in Spanish-language music.

Cartel violence exploded across more than ten of Mexico’s 32 states on Sunday after the government of Mexico confirmed the death of Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera, triggering roadblocks, gunfire, and burning vehicle attacks from the Pacific Coast to the Texas border.

Panic erupted near Guadalajara International Airport on Sunday after gunfire broke out just outside the terminal, hours after the Government of Mexico confirmed the death of CJNG cartel boss Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera. The confirmation triggered a wave of cartel violence across western Mexico, forcing flight cancellations, diversions, and highway shutdowns as CJNG gunmen torched vehicles and blocked major travel corridors.

A hunger-motivated prison riot at the Canaleta maximum security prison in Ciego de Ávila, Cuba, left at least seven inmates dead and several injured, the human rights organization Prisoners Defenders denounced on Thursday.

A court in Peru summoned Marxist interim President José María Balcázar Thursday for an upcoming trial on embezzlement charges.

“Acting president” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday evening signed an “amnesty law” criticized by local human rights organizations over its limited reach for all of the socialist regime’s remaining political prisoners.

Conservative President of Paraguay Santiago Peña on Thursday confirmed his participation at President Donald Trump’s upcoming “Shield of the Americas” Summit.

Prosecutors in Brazil shelved an investigation on Thursday into conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro on charges of “genocide” for his handling of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

The Peruvian Congress on Wednesday installed 83-year-old Marxist lawmaker José María Balcázar as new interim president of Peru following the impeachment of former interim President José Jerí.

Cuba’s communist Castro regime, for the first time in decades, accepted a mass deportation flight containing at least six Cuban nationals convicted of serious crimes, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) revealed on Wednesday.

United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) commander, Marine Gen. Francis L. Donovan, met with Venezuela’s “acting President” Delcy Rodríguez and other members of the nation’s socialist regime Wednesday in a surprise visit to Caracas.