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Argentine President Javier Milei delivered an address fiercely condemning socialism at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro appointed his alleged top money launderer Alex Saab as the new head of the regime’s investment center.

The Sandinista regime of Nicaragua announced on Sunday that it had struck a deal with the Vatican to expel 19 Catholic clergymen imprisoned for their faith, including Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, a firm regime critic sentenced to 26 years in prison for opposing communism.

Guatemala inaugurated leftist President Bernardo Arévalo in the early morning hours of Monday following a series of delays.

Penitentiary authorities in Ecuador confirmed on Thursday that violent gangs are holding at least 178 people hostage across seven prisons in the country as part of a wider war between the nation’s organized crime syndicates and the newly minted government of President Daniel Noboa.

Ecuador will soon begin deporting 1,500 foreign prison inmates in an effort to reduce prison overcrowding.

The government of Ecuador formally declared an emerging gang war in the country an “internal armed conflict” on Wednesday, vowing to curtail the deadly violence that dramatically intensified the day before.

President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency in response to the disappearance of José Adolfo Macías, Ecuador’s “most-wanted criminal.”

Brazil’s Federal Police acted to fulfill 47 warrants on Monday against people suspected of financing the January 8, 2023, Brasilia riot.

President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa announced on Thursday that the South American country will soon begin construction of two maximum-security prisons in the same style as the “mega-prison” built by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in 2023.

Argentine President Javier Milei signed a decree significantly restructuring the nation’s military, prompting numerous retirements.

Argentina announced the arrest of three citizens of Syria and Lebanon suspected of plotting a terrorist attack in Buenos Aires.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Obokata Tomoya, asked the communist regime of Cuba to respond to evidence that it was selling its citizens to nations such as Spain, Italy, Ghana, and Qatar for labor exploitation in a letter published Tuesday by the human rights organization Prisoners Defenders.

Communist Nicaragua marked 500 days since imprisoning Matagalpa Bishop Monsignor Rolando Álvarez on Tuesday by publishing photos of an alleged “medical examination” on the Catholic leader.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry declared itself “fully confident in the BRICS’ future” on Tuesday following Argentina’s rejection of membership in the trade and security alliance.

Socialist former President Evo Morales announced on Sunday he would continue to campaign for president of Bolivia despite the nation’s Constitutional Court stating he is term-limited from running.

2023 was a year of majorly influential political news in Latin America.

The world is approaching the conclusion of President Joe Biden’s third year in office in a state of elevated geopolitical chaos.

Nicaragua’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China came into effect on January 1, marking both a new stage in the relationship between the communist nations and another victory for China’s growing influence in the rogue Central American nation.

CARACAS, Venezuela — Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro interviewed his alleged top money launderer Alex Saab on his podcast on Thursday, granting him a victory lap following President Joe Biden’s decision to free Saab despite the money laundering charges against him.

Nicaraguan police on Thursday detained two senior Catholic priests for the “crime” of praying in public for Bishop Rolando Alvarez, a critic of socialist dictator Daniel Ortega, who in February was sentenced to 26 years in prison for “treason.”

Argentine President Javier Milei presented a massive omnibus bill to the nation’s Congress on Wednesday.

Bolivia presented charges against right-wing leaders for their alleged role in a “coup” against former socialist President Evo Morales in 2019.

Taylor Swift fan Ana Clara Benevides Machado’s cause of death has been revealed one month after she died ahead of the pop star’s concert in Brazil during the “Eras Tour.”

Cuba’s Communist Party approved changes to the nation’s health code that, once formally implemented, will allow euthanasia.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” NPR White House Correspondent Deepa Shivaram reacted to the prisoner swap deal between the United States and Venezuela by noting that Venezuela has already missed deadlines to meet conditions it was supposed

Freedom House marked the 50th anniversary of its “Freedom in the World” report with the 2023 edition, which offered the grim observation that “global freedom declined for the 17th consecutive year,” and warned, “the struggle for democracy may be approaching a turning point.”

CARACAS, Venezuela — The Venezuelan socialist Maduro regime is expecting a substantial increase in its oil exports in 2024 after President Joe Biden eased oil sanctions on the rogue socialist regime in October.

Millions of Nicaraguans will spend Christmas under the growing repression of communist dictator Daniel Ortega, who has arrested and banished members of the Catholic Church, prohibited Catholic festivities, and intimidated Christians into silence.

CARACAS, Venezuela — The socialist regime will hold a presidential election sometime during the second half of 2024. 

John Kirby, the coordinator for Strategic Communications at the White House National Security Council, asserted on Thursday that President Joe Biden’s decision to release Colombian businessman Alex Saab, the alleged top money launderer of Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, will help curb the large flow of Venezuelan migrants to the United States.

Nicaragua arrested 11 Evangelical leaders and launched an investigation into three Americans on Wednesday.

CARACAS, Venezuela – The government of Qatar announced on Thursday that it successfully acted as a mediator in the latest prisoner swap between the United States and Venezuela’s socialist regime that resulted in the release of Alex Saab, allegedly dictator Nicolás Maduro’s top money launderer.

The communist Sandinista government of Nicaragua arrested Monsignor Isidro del Carmen Mora Ortega, the bishop of the Diocese of Siuna, on Wednesday shortly after he presided over a Mass in which he prayed for another imprisoned bishop, Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, sentenced to 26 years in prison for “treason.”

Argentine President Javier Milei announced during a national broadcast on Wednesday night the signing of a Necessity and Urgency Decree (DNU), a form of executive order, that would modify or overturn an estimated 350 federal economic policies.

President Joe Biden’s open-borders policy is pulling more foreigners into the United States while pushing more Latino citizens into the GOP, according to a Politico report from El Paso, the far-western tip of Texas.