Latin America - Page 6

Venezuela’s socialist regime held a rally in Caracas on Sunday to celebrate this year’s “Day of Indigenous Resistance,” a made-up holiday that erases the legacy of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and the Spanish monarchy that backed him.

Numerous people are dead in Mexico after heavy rains caused flooding and landslides, and video footage shows the devastation left behind. 

Prominent left-wing politicians, heads of state, and commentators reacted with vitriol, dismay, and apathy at the news this weekend that anti-socialist opposition leader María Corina Machado had won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Peruvian Congress voted on Friday morning to remove President Dina Boluarte from office, on the grounds that she was not dealing effectively with a crime wave sweeping the country.

President Donald Trump has placed freedom in the Western Hemisphere back on the table. In doing so, he is pointing to a reality that could transform Latin America and strengthen the United States: a free Venezuela, governed by a legitimate democratic leadership, aligned as Washington’s strongest ally.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, awarded with the Nobel Peace Price on Friday morning, has a decades-long track record of opposing the Venezuelan socialist regime established by late dictator Hugo Chávez and now led by Nicolás Maduro.

Conservatives throughout the world celebrated the announcement on Friday that Venezuelan anti-socialist lawmaker María Corina Machado had won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work against the narco-terrorist regime of Nicolás Maduro, declaring her a “very deserved” winner.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro on Wednesday claimed that the drug-laden vessel struck by the U.S. military in Caribbean international waters last week was “Colombian with Colombian citizens on board,” prompting the White House to refute his claims.

Cuban citizens in Marianao, Havana, peacefully protested this week to denounce blackouts, hunger, and neglect under the communist regime, defying recent threats by figurehead “President” Miguel Díaz-Canel against dissidents, Martí Noticias reported on Wednesday.

Russia’s rubber-stamp legislature passed an “intergovernmental agreement on military cooperation” with the communist government of Cuba.

Tuesday pro-Hamas “peaceful” protests in the Colombian cities of Bogotá and Medellín concluded with numerous acts of vandalism and clashes between violent protesters and law enforcement, leaving several injured.

Los Angeles Rams legend and NFL Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson is no fan of the league’s choice of pop star Bad Bunny as this year’s Super Bowl halftime show entertainment, saying that if the performer truly does not like America, he should “keep his a** out.”

Relatives and allies of former President Jair Bolsonaro led a peaceful walk in Brasília calling for amnesty for the January 8 protesters.

Pope Leo XIV received a copy of “Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church,” an extensive report detailing thousands of acts of Christian persecution.

Argentine President Javier Milei honored Charlie Kirk while leading a rock concert in Buenos Aires on Monday.

Both President Donald Trump and socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil confirmed on Monday that they shared a phone call to discuss the deterioration of diplomatic relations between their countries, a result of Lula’s persecution of conservatives in the country.

José Daniel Ferrer — the leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), the nation’s largest dissident organization — announced that he has agreed to go into forced exile after enduring months of unbearable torture.

Nicolás Petro Burgos, Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro’s oldest son, admitted on Sunday that he received 1.3 billion Colombian pesos (roughly $336,000) during his father’s 2022 presidential campaign, but denied that the funds were illegal or meant for his father’s campaign.

As AI tools like ChatGPT become increasingly popular for travel planning, some vacationers are finding themselves led astray by the technology’s hallucinations and misinformation — sometimes putting themselves in danger by searching for nonexistent destinations in dangerous locales.

Miami Police Department Chief Manuel Morales confirmed on Thursday that the FBI is investigating death threats against himself and prominent Florida democracy activist and Breitbart News contributor Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat originating from a YouTube account linked to the communist regime in Cuba.

Argentine President Javier Milei on Thursday presented a new “Zero Tolerance” draft bill to overhaul the nation’s over 100-year-old Penal Code and impose tougher penalties for criminals as part of Milei’s goal to “Make Argentina Great Again.”

Nicaragua has signed a contract with the China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), a major actor in China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Far-left President Gustavo Petro purged Colombia’s diplomatic staff in China reportedly claiming they “sabotaged” his administration’s outreach to the communist regime.

Venezuela’s socialist regime kicked off its mandatory 2025 “Christmas season” on Wednesday with a fireworks show launched from the Helicoide (“The Helix”), its largest and most infamous torture center.

The U.S. State Department, in a statement to Breitbart News on Thursday, denied complaints from the Communist Party of Cuba that visa restrictions on members of the violent regime would prevent Cuba from being an active participant in the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), the regional body of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.).

The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) on Tuesday approved a U.S. proposal to add more personnel and funding to the security mission in Haiti, which has been overrun by violent gangs ever since the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in July 2021.

Cuba’s communist regime accused the United States of engaging in “discriminatory treatment” by allegedly refusing to allow Deputy Health Minister Tania Margarita Cruz to participate in an event for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), a regional subsidiary of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), in Washington.

Conservative former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro, recently diagnosed with skin cancer, suffered a new health complication on Monday, prompting an urgent visit from his head doctor Cláudio Birolini.

Violent rioters in Ecuador on Sunday assaulted a convoy loaded with humanitarian aid led by President Daniel Noboa in the province of Imbabura amid fierce anti-government protests over the end of fuel subsidies, according to the Ecuadorian government.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro on Monday doubled down on his call for the U.S. military to disobey President Donald Trump as commander-in-chief, and called for Trump to be imprisoned for allegedly aiding “genocide” in Gaza.

The government of Colombia accused the United States over the weekend of violating international law by revoking far-left President Gustavo Petro’s U.S. visa, a result of Petro calling for the U.S. military to disobey its commander in chief’s orders.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil on Friday used his platform at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to once again claim that the United States seeks to end the Venezuelan socialist regime’s “historic liberation project” and steal the country’s resources.

Latin America, once fertile ground for China to sign “Belt and Road” infrastructure deals with poor countries, is turning its back on “crappy” construction projects that erode the sovereignty of local governments, a senior State Department official told Breitbart News.

The U.S. State Department announced it would rescind the visa of Colombian President Gustavo Petro after he urged American soldiers to defy orders from President Donald Trump and compared Israel’s military actions in Gaza to the Holocaust during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in New York City.