Latin America - Page 37

Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro designated a hat that once belonged to Carlos Pizarro — one of the founders of the Marxist M19 terrorist guerrilla Petro was part of — part of Colombia’s “cultural heritage” on Tuesday.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said in an interview on Tuesday that he would consider running for a fourth term in office.

The socialist dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced the creation of a “Vice Ministry for Tending to Venezuelan Migration.”

Authorities in Nicaragua blocked Cuban opposition activist Bárbaro de Céspedes from entering the country, preventing him from fleeing from Cuba, several Cuban-focused outlets reported on Monday.

Venezuelan citizens will soon have to book appointments to buy subsidized fuel rations for their vehicles, Oil Minister Pedro Tellechea said.

Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich visited El Salvador’s CECOT “Mega Prison” seeking policies to emulate at home.

American kitchen product company Tupperware is shutting down its last U.S. factory and moving production to Mexico amid financial troubles.

Cuba’s communist Castro regime — which does not respect the freedom of expression and aggressively silences dissenting voices — will host its first bi-annual international “Political Humor” event in Havana on Friday.

Russia’s Kazan nuclear submarine and the Admiral Gorshkov frigate arrived in Cuba on Wednesday morning as part of a five-day stopover.

A group of far-left U.S. students representing the “Let Cuba Live” pro-regime group held an encounter in Havana on Monday evening with the figurehead president of Cuba’s communist Castro regime, Miguel Diaz-Canel.

Chiquita Brands, the famous banana company, was ordered by a federal jury on Wednesday to pay $38.3 million to the family members of people killed by the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a paramilitary group it funded during the 1990s and early 2000s.

A hunger strike that thousands of Venezuelan inmates staged on Sunday in 16 prisons has reportedly expanded to at least 51 prisons.

The Ohio judge who released the woman accused of stabbing a three-year-old to death at a grocery store has defended his decision, saying the suspect had no “red flags” despite her extensive criminal background.

Rosabel Roca Sampedro, a Cuban prosecutor, has requested asylum in the U.S. on the CBPOne app, the U.S-based outlet Martí Noticias reported.

Bolivian truckers and local transport organizations called for an indefinite strike of heavy transport next week against the government of socialist President Luis Arce and ongoing shortages of diesel fuel and foreign currency.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov welcomed the interest of Venezuela’s socialist Maduro regime in joining BRICS.

Venezuela’s socialist regime signed a deal with Turkey that will allow the Middle Eastern nation to mine gold in the Orinoco Mining Arc.

The growing debt accrued by Nicaraguan communist dictator Daniel Ortega from borrowing Chinese money has compromised the future of the Central American nation, according to a report published by the local newspaper Confidencial on Monday.

The government of Chile presented a formal note of protest to Venezuela’s socialist regime this week in response to Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab accusing Chilean intelligence officials of involvement in the death of Venezuelan dissident Ronald Ojeda.

Bolivian socialist President Luis Arce met with his “brother,” Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, in St. Petersburg on Thursday to address “a broad bilateral agenda” that includes Bolivia’s lithium resources and potential membership in the China-led BRICS bloc, currently chaired by Russia.

Dissident Cuban priest Father Castor José Álvarez Devesa urges Cubans to embrace the social lessons of Jesus as a path to freedom from communism.

Russia is reportedly preparing to deploy combat vessels to the Caribbean Sea in the summer as part of combat exercises.

Bernardo Raul Castro Mata told police that a member of the Tren de Aragua recruited him, per the New York Post.

Update: One of the authors of the original New York Times story upon which this article is based published a new piece insisting that porn addiction is not prevalent in the Amazon tribe he reported on.

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador told journalist Tucker Carlson in an interview published Wednesday that he believes former President Donald Trump can win the 2024 election and that attempts to imprison him are only giving him the “greatest campaign ever.”

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, described the dramatic crackdown on violent gangs in his country as a “spiritual war,” explaining to journalist Tucker Carlson this week that the largest gang, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), has a long history of satanic activity.

The foreign ministers of Venezuela’s socialist regime and Cuba’s communist regime began a visit to China this week to meet with Communist Party officials, state media from all three nations reported.

Truckers in Bolivia carried out a two-day blockade of some of the country’s key roads to protest against the government of socialist President Luis Arce over ongoing shortages of diesel fuel and foreign currency, which have severely affected the truckers’ ability to continue their labor.

The Latin American branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center denounced far-left Chilean President Gabriel Boric in a public letter on Monday.

Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro accused the United States government on Monday of allegedly being run by “Nazis” who are purportedly conducting an “experiment” in Gaza comparable to the Holocaust.

Claudia Sheinbaum, the candidate for the ruling leftist party, was overwhelmingly elected the next president of Mexico in Sunday’s general election.

Melody González Pedraza, a judge in communist Cuba, reportedly requested asylum in America after arriving in Tampa, Florida, through the Biden administration’s “Humanitarian Parole” program.

Leftist President Gabriel Boric of Chile announced Saturday that his country would join a controversial case led by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel, accusing the nation of “genocide” for its self-defense operations against Hamas.

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele told Donald Trump Jr. that his country does not “jail the opposition,” days after a Manhattan jury convicted former President Donald Trump.

Britain’s ambassador to Mexico left his post after a video purportedly showed him pointing a rifle toward a colleague.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday he is working to establish a joint weapons production project alongside Argentina and its president, Javier Milei.