Latin America

The U.S. Government publicly identified the main operator behind a cartel propaganda network that benefited one of Mexico’s most violent terrorist organizations. The man claimed to be a human rights activist. Numerous international news outlets routinely quote that individual, further pushing his pro-cartel propaganda.

Jorginho Frello, a Brazilian soccer star, has now publicly expressed regret for claiming that singer Chappell Roan’s personal security yelled at his daughter.

Miguel Díaz-Canel, the figurehead “President” of Cuba, claimed to NBC that any military attempt from the United States to depose him would be met by Cubans willing to die for the communist regime that has oppressed them for 67 years.

Foreign Minister of Panama Javier Martínez-Acha on Sunday rejected Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz and criticized the Islamic regime’s use of the waterway as a geopolitical tool amid its ongoing conflict with the U.S and Israel.

A survey conducted by Datafolha and published by local outlets on Sunday found that a majority of Brazilians believe that conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro should serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest over a prison cell.

Cuba’s figurehead “President” Miguel Díaz-Canel said he is “not stepping down” in an interview with NBC News.

The government of Ecuador announced Thursday that it is raising tariffs on Colombian imports from 50 to 100 percent on May 1.

Nicaragua’s communist Daniel Ortega regime is concealing from its official statistics the nearly 30 percent Gross Domestic Product (GPD) contribution that remittances add to the nation’s ailing economy, the newspaper Confidencial reported.

Venezuela’s National Assembly on Thursday passed a new mining law, opening its doors to private entrepreneurship as the nation’s socialist regime seeks to attract U.S. and other foreign investment after decades of socialist restrictions.

“Acting president” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez on Wednesday evening acknowledged that the Venezuelan socialist regime committed “errors in the past” that led to the nation’s unprecedented hyperinflation spiral and exodus of millions of Venezuelans.

Foreign Minister of Panama Javier Martínez-Acha on Wednesday called for China to respect Panama’s legal sovereignty amid a series of arbitrary detentions of Panama-flagged vessels by Chinese authorities after Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison lost control of two key Canal ports.

American multinational energy corporation Chevron is now importing an average of 250,000 barrels of Venezuelan crude oil per day into the United States,  the BBC reported on Tuesday.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday denounced Cuba’s communist regime for running a massive healthcare fraud operation in South Florida.

Indian refiner Reliance Industries has begun loading a 2-million barrel cargo of Venezuelan crude oil directly bought from the state-owned oil company PDVSA, Reuters reported on Monday.

A pair of Italian tourists travelling across Venezuela published a video on social media Monday claiming they experienced several instances of alleged extortion while passing through various police and military checkpoints in the country.

Venezuelan journalist and former political prisoner Carlos Julio Rojas on Sunday accused the nation’s socialist regime, now led by “acting President” Delcy Rodríguez, of criminalizing the Catholic “Burning of Judas” Easter tradition.

Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Jonathan Jackson (D-IL) revealed on Monday that they had briefly visited Cuba over the Easter holiday and met with figurehead “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel, saying they support greater engagement with the repressive Communist Party.

Iranian ambassador to Caracas Alí Chegeni recently met with members of Venezuela’s “Colectivos” socialist paramilitary gangs.

The Communist Party of Cuba announced a mass pardon of over 2,000 prisoners on Thursday, allegedly to mark the Christian holiday of Holy Week, but human rights groups have denounced the regime for neither freeing a single political prisoner nor clarifying who it is freeing.

The United Nations-backed security force in Haiti, which is staffed largely by police and military officers from Kenya, has been accused of four cases of sexual exploitation and abuse. U.N. investigators said all four of the allegations were “substantiated.”

The government of Argentina declared the Iranian chargé d’affaires persona non grata and gave him 48 hours to leave the country.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Wednesday announced that it lifted sanctions on Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez.

Michel Torres Corona, a propagandist on Cuban state television, complained on Wednesday that Cuban authorities allegedly censored a scathing condemnation he filmed against Sandro Castro, the “influencer” grandson of late Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro, for his recent interview with CNN and other antics involving President Donald Trump.

Nicaraguan Catholics were once again prohibited from freely celebrating Holy Week this year after the communist regime, led by dictatorial husband-and-wife couple Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, banned all Catholic processions in the country for the third year in a row.

The Colombian news channel Red más on Tuesday aired an interview with Sandro Castro, the “influencer” grandson of late Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro, in which he dubious claimed he has no close ties with the inner circle of his great-uncle dictator Raúl Castro.

A Delta Air Lines flight bound for Atlanta, Georgia, from São Paulo, Brazil, was grounded just after takeoff due to an engine fire.

Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Monday demanded “explanations” from Jair Bolsonaro’s legal team after his son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, said that he would record a video at CPAC to show his father, who is presently under house arrest recovering from pneumonia.

The leftist American news outlet CNN aired a favorable interview on Monday night with Sandro Castro, the grandson of late Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro and one of the few people in communist Cuba wealthy enough to enjoy marginal fame as an Instagram influencer.

The United States embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, formally resumed operations on Monday, marking a new step in the Trump administration’s three-phase plan towards restoring democracy in the South American nation.

A Canadian woman named Miriam Lancaster caused an uproar on social media by saying doctors offered her euthanasia – known in Canada by the euphemism Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) – when she visited the hospital for severe back pain.

A letter allegedly penned by Nicolás Maduro calling for “reconciliation and forgiveness” in Venezuela was published over the weekend.

Mexico’s Navy Secretariat (Semar) over the weekend announced that the two missing sailboats carrying “humanitarian aid” from Mexico to Cuba were found and have safely arrived in Havana.

A-list actor Antonio Banderas says when he came to Hollywood in the early 1990s, he was told black and Hispanic actors can only play the bad guys. But he broke that stereotype almost immediately.

Mexico’s government continues to use faulty stats to push a false narrative that the cartel-controlled country is safe. In the most recent attempt to trick the public, Mexico’s government is claiming that one-third of the country’s more than 130,000 persons reported as missing are believed to be alive.