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Venezuela on Tuesday marked the first month since the United States’s unprecedented January 3 law enforcement operation in Caracas that resulted in the arrest of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.

Chile’s outgoing far-left President Gabriel Boric on Monday formally presented the candidacy of socialist former President Michelle Bachelet to become the next U.N. Secretary-General — and announced that her bid is also backed by leftists governments of Brazil and Mexico.

Indian Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri appeared to confirm President Donald Trump’s claim that New Delhi would be expanding Venezuelan oil purchases in comments on Monday, stating that India was already buying Venezuelan oil and has refineries specially outfitted to handle crude from that country.

Ambassador Laura Dogu met with Venezuela’s “acting President” Delcy Rodríguez and her brother Jorge on Monday, hours after arriving in the country amid the ongoing reopening process of the U.S. embassy in Caracas.

Costa Rica’s 39-year-old conservative politician Laura Fernández became president-elect of the Central American nation on Sunday, winning a 15-point lead ahead of her closest rival in the first round of the election.

Ambassador Laura Dogu has arrived in Caracas with diplomatic personnel to reopen the U.S. embassy in the Venezuelan capital after a seven year pause.

The Supreme Court of Panama ruled on Thursday that two decades-long contracts awarded to Panama Ports Company (PPC), a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Hutchison Port Holdings, to operate two ports in the Panama Canal were unconstitutional.

Chile’s National Institute of Statistics (INE) on Wednesday published data that showed the country’s fertility rate has fallen to the lowest level in its recorded history: just 0.97 children per woman.

A new license granting U.S. oil companies expanded access to operate in Venezuela was issued Thursday by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

A poll published on Thursday found that slightly over half of Brazilians, 51 percent, believe that socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva does not deserve to win a fourth term in office in the October presidential election.

Strongman Diosdado Cabello branded the Venezuelan Catholic Church “fascists in cassocks” for not condemning the capture of Nicolás Maduro.

President Donald Trump on Thursday directed the opening of commercial airspace over Venezuela, allowing U.S. citizens to travel to the country soon.

Communist lawmakers from Russia’s State Duma established a committee seeking to achieve the “liberation” of Venezuela’s deposed socialist dictator, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, the Russian embassy in Caracas announced Wednesday.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) discussed the ouster of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela and stated that “if you talk to Bolsonaro, he’d probably say da Silva is an illegitimate leader in Brazil.

The Mexican Embassy in Washington published a statement this week insisting that all of its activities were conducted with “strict political neutrality” and its sprawling network of over 50 consulates was necessary to help Americans – a move some observers in Mexico linked directly to the release of Peter Schweizer’s bombshell book The Invisible Coup.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro took the opportunity of celebrating the reopening of a hospital in Bogotá to tell his audience he “does very good things in bed” — “unforgettable, a beast” — and that he personally thinks Jesus Christ engaged in sexual relations.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed that her country halted an oil shipment to Cuba slated for the end of this month.

Bolivian community leaders asked the federal government this week to investigate after an opposition lawmaker claimed that socialist ex-president Evo Morales, a fugitive charged with pedophilia who has been hiding for months in his stronghold Cochabamba, has fled to Mexico.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry complained on Tuesday that the American mission to arrest deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro was “bullying,” but offered no substantive response when asked what it was doing to aid the remains of the socialist regime.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told U.S. Senators that America is prepared to use force to ensure Venezuela’s “acting President” Delcy Rodríguez cooperates, Bloomberg reported.

The administration of President Donald Trump notified Congress it is taking the first steps towards a possible reopening of the U.S. embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, following the downfall of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro. The Associated Press (AP) reports it obtained a

The administration of Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa on Monday announced a 900 percent increase in tariffs on Colombian oil transiting through its pipeline system, the latest move in an escalating trade dispute.

Chinese state-owned oil company PetroChina told its partners not to buy or trade Venezuelan crude oil ever since the U.S. took control of Venezuelan oil exports earlier this month, according to a report published by Reuters on Tuesday.

Socialist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pressured President Donald Trump to make changes to his proposed “Board of Peace” to solve global conflicts on Monday, demanding in a phone call that Trump invite the non-existent nation of “Palestine” to participate.

“Acting President” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez on Monday responded to “irrelevant and offensive statements” from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent by asserting Venezuela “does not accept orders from any external factor.”

The U.S. State Department revoked visas for two members of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council (TPC) over alleged gang ties.

Venezuelan ex-political prisoner Víctor Borjas surprised his two daughters – whom he had not seen in over a year – by wearing a teddy bear costume in a heartfelt Sunday reunion after his release from unjust imprisonment.

Russia’s ambassador to Caracas Sergey Melik-Bagdasarov on Sunday said that he believes Venezuela’s deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro was “betrayed,” allowing U.S. forces to capture him and his wife Cilia Flores.

A group of armed attackers on Sunday carried out a massacre at a soccer match in the Mexican town of Salamanca, Guanajuato, killing 11 and leaving 12 injured.

A Brazil presidential election poll found for the first time a lead for Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, in a runoff vote against incumbent socialist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

“Acting President” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez said she has had “enough” of Washington’s orders during a Sunday state media broadcast.

Authorities in Chile on Thursday arrested a suspect for setting the massive Biobio forest fire, which killed at least 21 people.

President of Peru Jose Jeri this week vowed that he will not resign from his position amid the ongoing scandal over his undisclosed meetings with a Chinese businessman known as “Chifagate.”

An unnamed “U.S. official” told the news agency Reuters in a report published on Thursday that America’s participation in the Venezuelan oil industry would not prevent communist China from buying such oil, but that they would no longer benefit from “unfair, undercut” prices.

Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López on Thursday claimed that Venezuela was allegedly a “testing ground for the use of unknown weapons” during the U.S. operation to capture Nicolás Maduro.

Socialist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva held a friendly phone call on Friday with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.