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An independent study conducted by the Cuban Observatory for Citizen Auditing (OCAC) and published on Monday by the Madrid-based Cuba Siglo 21 think tank found that the communist regime is severely downplaying the number of preventable deaths caused by an ongoing epidemiological crisis.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro, an unabashed Marxist and former guerrilla member, spent much of 2025 embroiled in outrageous incidents while making wild claims that proved embarrassing for his entire nation.

Argentine President Javier Milei emphasized his admiration and support for American counterpart Donald Trump in an interview with the British Telegraph on Monday, praising Trump as a peacemaker and clear-minded leader.

The Chinese embassy in Panama on Sunday expressed its “deep dismay, strong indignation, and firm opposition” to the recent demolition of a Chinese monument in the city of Arraiján this weekend.

Over 250 Colombians were displaced from their homes on Christmas Day due to violent clashes between the FARC and ELN Marxist terror groups

Cuban slave doctors presently in Luanda, Angola denounced that they spent Christmas without receiving pay for their services from the Cuban communist regime, the independent outlet 14 y Medio reported on Thursday.

Conservative former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro’s Christmas Day double hernia surgery went “smoothly” and with no complications, his medical team confirmed.

One of China’s oldest and most reliable business partners in Latin America, the nation of Chile, just elected a hardline conservative who supports a military overthrow of the Venezuelan socialist regime, a core Chinese ally, as its president.

Honduras’ National Electoral Council (CNE) on Wednesday proclaimed conservative and President Donald Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura as the winner of the 2025 presidential election — ending a three-week uncertainty period over the extremely narrow race and controversially slow vote count process. 

Maritime tracking data released on Monday showed that international oil tankers have dramatically scaled back loading activity at Venezuelan ports, fearful of a crackdown by the Trump administration on illegal sanctions-busting oil shipments.

El Salvador’s Villa Navidena, the Christmas Village in the capital city of San Salvador, featured familiar holiday favorites like Santa Claus, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and the Grinch in a parade on Sunday.

Conservative former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro will undergo surgery on Christmas Day on Thursday to repair two inguinal hernias, local outlets reported. 

The U.S. Coast Guard is awaiting for additional resources to arrive before potentially attempting to stop and board another oil tanker linked to Venezuela’s socialist Maduro regime, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

Cuba’s communist regime, which regularly rants about the purported U.S. “embargo” hurting its economy, has purchased over $8 billion worth of agricultural and food products from the U.S. since 2001, the Madrid-based outlet Diario de Cuba reported on Monday.

Foreign Minister of Panama Javier Martínez-Acha said on Monday that the Panama-flagged oil tanker recently interdicted by the United States failed to comply with the country’s maritime rules.

The government of Argentine President Javier Milei has created a government office to support the candidates of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi to become the next United Nations secretary-general, the newspaper La Nación reported on Tuesday.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) stated that the Trump administration has a plan to ratchet up pressure to “force the outcome that we want” in Venezuela and time is running

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” CNN Senior Political and National Security Analyst and New York Times White House and National Security Correspondent David Sanger is going after ships that are under sanction and “many of these sanctions go back to

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro issued a furious six-page letter to international heads of state and to the United Nations denouncing the United States’ drug-fighting efforts as part of Operation Southern Spear. 

On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) said that there may be a legal justification to go after some Venezuelan oil tankers, but he is worried “that we’re going to turn Venezuela into another American military

A mob of over 200 people kidnapped 18 Colombian soldiers on Sunday during an armed operation against the National Liberation Army (ELN) Marxist terror group, local outlets reported.

248 members of El Salvador’s Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) deadly gang were sentenced to up to 1,335 years in prison for multiple crimes.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry condemned the administration of President Donald Trump on Monday for operations to stop Venezuela’s illicit trafficking of sanctioned oil, claiming that the seizures, and not the trafficking, were the true international crime.

President of Argentina Javier Milei over the weekend welcomed President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign on Venezuela’s socialist Maduro regime during the latest Heads of State summit of the Mercosur trade bloc. Milei urged the bloc’s member states to back the

The United States Coast Guard is in pursuit of a third sanctioned oil tanker near Venezuelan waters, both Reuters and Bloomberg reported on Sunday. Both outlets identified the vessel as the Bella 1, an oil tanker reportedly en route to

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro on Thursday stressed that Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro cannot give orders to the Colombian military after Maduro called upon the Colombian army to join him and defend Venezuela against the “threat” of a U.S. “invasion.”

Socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil confirmed on Thursday he will veto a bill passing both chambers of the Brazilian Congress that reduces the sentence of conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro, currently serving 27 years in prison on dubious “coup” charges.

Police, who held a line at the very gate of the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium were pelted with potatoes by angry farmers.

The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, announced on Wednesday that his country would be welcoming members of the United States Air Force for a temporary joint operation intended to fight drug trafficking and narco-terrorism.

Nicaragua’s communist regime is banning travelers from bringing Bibles into the country, the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa reported.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday filed a criminal complaint in Sweden against the Nobel Foundation, seeking to prevent Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate María Corina Machado from receiving the $1.18 million monetary prize that comes with the award and demanding she returns the medal.

The governments of China and Russia issued impassioned statements in support of Nicolás Maduro’s narco-terrorist regime in Venezuela on Wednesday and Thursday, urging President Donald Trump to reconsider his regional actions protecting America’s national security.

Venezuela’s socialist Maduro regime has requested an urgent U.N. Security Council meeting to address President Donald Trump’s order to impose a blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela.

Protests in Honduras staged by members of the ruling socialist Libre party this week against the nation’s electoral authorities left at least eight injured, further delaying the slow vote counting process of the November presidential election.

Conservative President-elect of Chile José Antonio Kast proclaimed, “Liberty advances in Latin America,” alongside President Javier Milei.