Latin America

Luís Roberto Barroso — head of Brazil’s top court, the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) — issued a public letter on Sunday refuting President Donald Trump’s reasons to impose a 50-percent tariff on the South American country, which will go into effect on August 1.

Federal prosecutors in Argentina launched a probe to uncover the logistic and financial networks that allowed Russian spies to enter the country and carry out disinformation campaign efforts, the newspaper La Nación reported Sunday.

Cubans around the world marked the fourth anniversary on Friday of the nationwide protests on the island in 2021 in which thousands of people flooded the streets of nearly every major city to demand an end to communism.

Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, criticized the U.S. government after the American Secretary of Agriculture announced the closure of the border to cattle from Mexico. The secretary ordered the closure due to the ongoing spread of the deadly New World Screwworm, a plague that can be fatal to humans.

Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro on Thursday offered to “help” the state of Texas and those affected by deadly floods with the “experience” of his regime — notoriously known for not handling similar tragedies well.

Ecuador’s Public Prosecutor’s Office this week launched an investigation into leftist lawmaker Joseph Santiago Díaz for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl, local outlets reported.

China and Brazil signed a memorandum of understanding, Chinese state media reported on Wednesday, to explore the possibility of jointly building a transcontinental railroad from the east coast of Brazil to the west coast of Peru – directly to a port funded and partially owned by Beijing.

President Donald Trump announced the imposition of a 50-percent tariff on Wednesday on Brazilian products sent into the United States, citing the “witch hunt” against conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro, which he described as an “international disgrace.”

Illegal armed groups in Colombia have significantly expanded their territorial control and added thousands of members to their ranks in the past three years of the administration of far-left President Gustavo Petro, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

Conservative Senator Miguel Uribe, in critical condition since an assassination attempt in June, is the frontrunner in the Colombian presidential election.

President Donald Trump published a message on Monday in defense of longtime ally Jair Bolsonaro, who served as president of Brazil during Trump’s first term, accusing the Brazilian judiciary of doing a “terrible thing” by launching multiple criminal investigations against him and banning him from running for office.

Cuba’s figurehead “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel on Sunday delivered an impassioned screed against America President Donald Trump’s recent measures against the communist regime during the annual summit of the anti-U.S. BRICS coalition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

A video released by El Salvador President Nayib Bukele casts doubts on claims by Kilmar Abrego Garcia that he was beaten and tortured during his imprisonment in his country of origin. In a video posted by the president on X,

The authoritarian regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua have spent extensive efforts to diminish or outright erase the significance of their countries’ national independence days, crafting unpopular communist replacements for the anniversaries.

Cuba’s communist regime launched an intense repressive campaign against several journalists, activists, and dissidents to prevent them from attending the Fourth of July celebrations hosted by the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba-focused outlets reported on Thursday.

Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergey Naryshkin on Tuesday met in Havana with Cuban figurehead “President” Miguel Díaz-Canel, who described the Russian official as a “good friend” of Cuba.

Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro claimed, without evidence, on Monday that the WhatsApp messaging platform was used to “kill Iranian scientists,” referring to Israel’s recent military operations against Iran’s nuclear program.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) implementing a tougher U.S. policy against Cuba’s communist regime and reversing concessions granted by former U.S. President Joe Biden.

Sandro Castro, grandson of late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, published a bizarre video on his social media accounts on Sunday in which he, with an American flag in the background, appears to ridicule the endless blackouts that the Castro regime forces Cubans to live through.

Chilean communist politician and former Labor Minister Jeannette Jara overwhelmingly won in Sunday’s “progressive primary,” becoming the incumbent leftist government’s presidential candidate for the November 16 general election.

President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele said on Sunday that his country is willing to send deported illegal migrants detained at the CECOT mega-prison to France after Mexican-American fashion designer Willy Chavarria held a performance “inspired” by the detainees at the Paris Fashion Week show.

Lux Pascal, Chilean-American Hollywood actor Pedro Pascal’s youngest sibling, will play the lead role in the drama Miss Carbón (“Queen of Coal”), a Spanish-Argentine production based on the story of Carla Antonella Rodríguez, Argentina’s first transgender coal miner worker.

A judge in Argentina ruled on Thursday that the country could place ten Iranian and Lebanese citizens – including the recently appointed head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – on trial in absentia for their suspected roles in the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA).

Colombia’s Council of State, the country’s top administrative court, on Friday morning rejected a lawsuit filed by two Colombian unions against conservative Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, who has reportedly not awakened since being shot in the head this month.

Cocaine production, seizures, and use reached all-time highs in 2023, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) revealed in its latest world drug report published on Thursday.

Argentine law enforcement officials on Wednesday arrested Alexia Abaigar, an official with Buenos Aires’s far-left autonomous government, for throwing feces and vandalizing the home of libertarian Congressman José Luis Espert this week.

Argentina’s annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth stood at 5.8 percent during the first quarter of 2025, outpacing China, the National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina (INDEC) shockingly revealed this week.

Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro called President Nayib Bukele a “lowly monster” and compared him to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in response to El Salvador detaining 252 Venezuelan illegal migrants suspected of being members of the Tren de Aragua terrorist organization.

Sandro Castro, grandson of late Cuban communist mass murderer Fidel Castro, published a bizarre video message on Monday condemning President Donald Trump’s illegal migrant crackdown policies.

Cuba is preventing provincial Cubans who live outside Havana from attending the U.S. embassy’s traditional Independence Day celebration on July 4, the independent outlet 14 y Medio reported on Monday.

Latin America’s far-left governments and Iran’s top allies in the region over the weekend rallied in defense of the rogue Islamic regime after the United States launched strikes against three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday.

Seemingly defying all odds, more than a dozen people somehow survived a ride on a hot air balloon that caught fire, rose skyward, then tumbled to the ground in Brazil — killing at least 8 who were on board.

A 55-year-old Frenchman suspected of commissioning online pedophile crimes in Colombia has been arrested and charged in France, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Saturday.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado warned this week that Venezuela is the only country in the Western hemisphere with the capacity to produce Iranian combat drones.

President Javier Milei declared on Thursday that Iran is an enemy of Argentina and reiterated his support of Israel and his “dearest friend,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.