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The largest airlines in Canada announced on Monday and Tuesday that they would be suspending flights to Cuba for the immediate future as a result of the Castro regime announcing it no longer had any jet fuel.

Colombian model Valentina Forero Álvarez this week plead guilty of leading a multi-state criminal organization that used the U.S. financial system to launder more than $31 million in drug trafficking proceeds.

Venezuela’s socialist strongman Diosdado Cabello celebrated the abduction and rearrest of opposition politician Juan Pablo Guanipa.

Mexico, China, and Russia vowed to provide assistance to the ailing Cuban regime this week — but none offering to provide the oil that the ailing communists desperately seek.

The Venezuelan terrorist organization Tren De Aragua (TdA) is expanding dramatically in Mexico City and has become one of the leading criminal organizations in the Mexican capital city. TDA is one of several criminal organizations designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations by the U.S. government. The expansion in Mexico appears to be closely tied to the push by the U.S. government to track down its members and remove them from U.S. soil.

President Donald Trump was no fan of Bad Bunny’s halftime show at Super Bowl LX, calling it an “affront to the greatness of America.”

Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Pablo Guanipa was rearrested 12 hours after being released from prison.

The Communist Party of Cuba warned airlines operating in the country that it would soon run out of jet fuel, reports revealed on Monday, potentially lasting through the middle of March.

The U.S. State Department announced on Thursday that it will send an additional $6 million worth of direct humanitarian assistance to the Cuban people still heavily affected by last year’s Hurricane Melissa as the nation’s heavily dysfunctional communist regime finds itself on the brink of collapse.

Conservative President of Panama José Raúl Mulino issued a stern warning to the Chinese Communist Party on Thursday not to expect its threats against his country to be tolerated, responding to browbeating from Beijing following a ruling against Panama Canal contracts signed with a regime-linked corporation.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, welcoming his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodríguez, offered China’s support “to the best of our ability.”

Brazil’s socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that Nicolás Maduro’s freedom is “not a main concern of his.”

The United States and Argentina on Thursday signed an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade and Investment (ARTI), granting U.S. goods preferential market access to the South American nation.

Colombian Military forces on Wednesday carried out a bombing attack in the Catatumbo region against the warring National Liberation Army (ELN) and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Marxist terrorist groups.

The success of the United States’s three-phase plan toward stabilizing Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro depends on neutralizing Iran’s military presence in the country as well as Russia and China’s encroachment, the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS) warned this week.

The business outlet Bloomberg reported on Thursday that its anonymous sources affirmed that the Chinese Communist Party had ordered an end to “projects” in Panama following that nation’s top court ruling that a deal granting outsized power to a Hong Kong corporation over the Panama Canal was unconstitutional.

Colombian businessman Alex Saab, widely considered to be Nicolás Maduro’s top money launderer, was arrested in Caracas on Wednesday as part of a join U.S. – Venezuela operation, several outlets reported.

Uruguay’s Leftist President Yamandú Orsi met with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping in Beijing, pushing his country closer to communist China.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro on Tuesday disclosed details of his meeting with President Trump at the White House, stating, “We didn’t hit or scratch each other; we look for solutions.”

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a new license Tuesday authorizing the export and sale of U.S. diluents to Venezuela. Diluents are a key fuel needed to produce exportable crude oil grades in the ⁠OPEC country.

“Acting President” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez on Tuesday night said the country is calm a month after U.S. forces captured socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.

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.

Far-left Colombian President Gustavo Petro met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday.

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.

U.S. Ambassador to Panama Kevin Cabrera over the weekend emphasized in an official statement that the recent ruling from Panama’s Supreme Court nullifying two Canal port contracts awarded to a China-linked company strongly affirms the rule of law.

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.

President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order declaring a national emergency over the threats to America posed by Cuba.

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.