Latin America

Around 80 percent of the Venezuelan population is now short of food, according to the new data compiled by NGO Human Rights Watch on Tuesday.

Contents: Thousands of migrants overwhelm Mexican cities to Tijuana; People of Mexico are increasingly split between xenophobia and sympathy toward migrants

Cuban rapper “Pupito en Sy” announced a hunger strike in solidarity with fellow hip-hop artist Maykel Castillo “El Osorbo,” who last week sewed his mouth shut while in prison to protest Cuba’s impending ban on “unauthorized” music.

Politically motivated arrests of soldiers and military personnel in Venezuela reached an all-time high in 2018, according to a report from grassroots Venezuelan site Crónica Uno published Monday.

Rather than an act of nihilism, cult leader Jim Jones masked mass suicide as an act of idealism, a sacrifice for the higher purpose of giving glory to Communism.

The U.S. Department of State updated travel advisories warning tourists about increases in crime and violence in certain Mexican states that have reached the same security designation as the Afghanistan war zone.

The socialist-controlled National Assembly in Nicaragua approved plans on Wednesday to allow the entry of military personnel from the United States, Cuba, and even Taiwan in a mission they claim will be for “humanitarian purposes.” 

Chinese telecoms giant ZTE is helping the socialist dictatorship in Venezuela to create a social credit system known as the “Fatherland Card,” similar to the system already implemented by Beijing.  

The State Department announced Wednesday that it would add another 26 entities, including 16 hotels, to its “Cuba Restricted List,” generally barring Americans from doing business with those entities. The hotels and other businesses in question are those known to be owned by the Cuban military, which directly engages in human rights abuses throughout the Western Hemisphere.

Spanish authorities re-opened a money laundering probe targeting the former governor of a Mexican border state who was linked to Los Zetas Cartel in U.S. federal court cases.

Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro announced Wednesday that his administration will grant political asylum to Cuban doctors forced to work in the country for the dictatorship’s profit, reversing the policy his socialist predecessor imposed on them.

WASHINGTON, DC — Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah has established “large caches of military equipment and explosives” in Bolivia and deployed jihadis to Peru, the U.S. Department of State’s (DOS) top counter-terrorism official Nathan Sales cautioned lawmakers on Wednesday.

The Venezuelan socialist regime is allowing Colombia’s Marxist National Liberation Army (ELN) terrorists to operate in at least 12 Venezuelan states, a report revealed on Tuesday.

President Trump’s recent proclamation addressing the mostly Central American migrants marching toward the U.S. border contravenes U.S. laws on immigration, declared a statement posted on the U.S. bishops website Wednesday.

Venezuelan ranchers are protesting plans by the country’s socialist regime to begin expropriating cattle through local governments, as Nicolás Maduro’s economic policy moves towards that of a Cuba-style communist state. 

Two former Mexican presidents publicly denied taking bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel. The statements came after the legal defense for Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera made contrary claims this week.

Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has appointed retired army general Fernando Azevedo e Silva as the country’s new defense minister, as he plans for the military to take a more important role in ensuring domestic security. 

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado published a letter on Monday directed at Chinese Communist Party chief Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, intended to discourage both countries from continuing to do business with Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and Cuba’s ceremonial “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel took the time Sunday to celebrate the birthday of fellow leftist autocrat Daniel Ortega, who turned 73 years old and has ruled Nicaragua for about half of the years since the 1979 Sandinista revolution.

The mob attack on Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s home this week by radical Marxists – leaving his home with a broken door and vandalized with leftist slogans – has triggered widespread shock on the part of most decent Americans.

Cuba’s second-in-command, “President” Miguel Díaz-Canel agreed to participate in China’s “Belt and Road” Initiative during talks with Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping on Thursday.

Contents: Venezuela’s refugees crisis soars, as economic disaster reaches new levels; Number of migrants leaving Venezuela reaches three million

President Donald Trump marked the National Day for the Victims of Communism for the second year running on Wednesday, a day that honors the over 100 million killed in the name of that ideology.

Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro claimed he would do “everything legally in my power” to authorize the extradition of Italian Marxist terrorist Cesare Battisti, given asylum under socialist administrations, in remarks Wednesday.

International oil experts have warned that Venezuela’s production is in “free fall” and could soon fall as low as under one million barrels per day as a result of the socialist country’s severe economic crisis. 

The son of Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro will visit the White House next week as part of efforts to build stronger relations between the two countries, he announced on Wednesday.

Berta Soler, the head of Cuba’s pro-democracy Ladies in White group, denounced the communist regime there on Tuesday for refusing to renew her passport, telling her that she was being “regulated” generally and could not move freely.

Cuban state media celebrated the success of the Democratic Party in Tuesday’s midterm elections, describing the election as a defeat for “one of the most polarizing and unpopular Presidents in modern history.

Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López dismissed American National Security Adviser John Bolton as a “clown” in a rant Tuesday accusing the United States and Colombia of fabricating claims that the socialist failed state has established ties with Marxist terrorist groups.

Venezuela’s defense minister announced Monday that he had ordered additional troops to the Colombian border after alleged “paramilitaries” killed three Venezuelan soldiers this weekend.

The Bishop of Ciudad Juarez urged the faithful Sunday to tear down the walls that have been built against migrants, exhorting them to lend their full support to migrants.

Cuba’s Miguel Díaz-Canel, who holds the title of “president” but remains subordinate to dictator Raúl Castro, received a hero’s welcome in North Korea on Sunday and Monday, enjoying a theater performance and street parade with dictator Kim Jong-un.

The Dominican Republic opened in its new embassy in Beijing this weekend, as China attempts to woo the country as a reward for its decision to no longer recognize Taiwan as an independent country. 

Venezuelan refugees who have fled to Colombia are using their old currency to make and sell art in the street, local outlet La Opinión reported this week.

Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s choice for minister of defense revealed on Friday that intelligence services had thwarted a “terrorist” attack against the conservative future head of state, who survived an assassination attempt to win last week’s election.