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The Islamist terror state of Iran accused the United States of “piracy” on Thursday in response to President Donald Trump revealing that U.S. authorities had seized a crude oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea accused of transporting sanctioned oil from Iran and its ally Venezuela.

Officials of Venezuela’s socialist Maduro regime claimed President Donald Trump “confessed” to having “stolen” a sanctioned oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast.

Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro on Wednesday sang a modified version of Bobby McFerrin’s iconic song, Don’t Worry, Be Happy as a “message” to American citizens amid growing tensions between both countries.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday afternoon announced that the United States has seized an oil tanker bound for Cuba as it was sailing off the coast of Venezuela.

Netflix is being dragged for its upcoming ultra woke film featuring a transgender coal miner “fighting the patriarchy.” Some are saying that with lunacy like this, Netflix is going to turn Warner Bros. into a “woke wasteland.”

The European Union (EU) has belatedly joined the rush for rare earth minerals in Latin America, months after the United States began working on a deal with Brazil.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, in a surprise Wednesday morning announcement, revealed that Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado is on her way to Oslo, Norway, to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

American pop star Beyoncé’s team took legal action over the “unauthorized” use of the song Survivor in a teaser trailer for “Dark Horse,” an upcoming film about the life of conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilian outlets reported on Tuesday.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, banned from leaving her own country by the socialist Maduro regime, will not receive the Nobel Peace Prize in person on Wednesday, the Norwegian Nobel Institute said.

Heavily armed members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Marxist terrorist group held a funeral parade in honor of an explosives expert who died after a failed attack on a police station, Colombian outlets reported on Monday.

The Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control holds a hearing on Chinese drug trafficking through Latin America to the United States on Tuesday, December 9.

Nicaragua is set to pay $2 billion in interest to China for the multiple predatory debt trap loans it has signed with the Chinese communist regime, the newspaper Confidencial reported Monday.

Honduras on Sunday marked a week without definitive vote results from the Honduran National Electoral Council (CNE) indicating who won the November 30 presidential election.

Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro over the weekend announced the inauguration of a maternal and child health center at the Helicoide (“the Helix”), Venezuela’s largest and most infamous torture center.

The administration of President Donald Trump deported more Nicaraguan migrants during the first nine months of 2025 than all of 2024 and 2023 combined, the newspaper Confidencial reported on Sunday.

Rixi Moncada, candidate of Honduras’ ruling Libre socialist party, on Sunday called for protests against its yet-to-be defined results and accused President Donald Trump of allegedly “coercing” in the nation’s recent election.

Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro, announced this weekend that he would run for president in the 2026 election – but would step down from the campaign should his father be freed and allowed to run for a second term.

Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro on Thursday starred in a bizarre “comedy sketch” involving an antique rotary phone — apparently alluding to his recent phone call with President Donald Trump.

Former Honduran vice president and current presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla claimed to Reuters on Thursday that President Donald Trump’s “last-minute interference” in the still-undefined election “damaged” his chances of winning.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Jimena Romina Araya Navarro, a Venezuelan actress linked to the Tren de Aragua terrorist organization.

Conservative politician Nasry Asfura is back in the lead in Honduras’ ongoing presidential vote count as of Thursday morning.

Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro on Wednesday claimed his recent phone conversation with President Donald Trump was “friendly” and “cordial.”

Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday suggested maintaining economic pressure against Venezuela’s socialist regime as a means to promote change in the country.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian on Wednesday said that China opposes “external interference” in Venezuela’s affairs amid rising tensions between the South American country and the United States.

Brazil’s Federal District Criminal Enforcement Court (VEP) on Tuesday night confirmed that conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro will finish serving his 27 years and three months prison sentence on November 4, 2052.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro on Tuesday threatened President Donald Trump with “awakening the Jaguar” after Trump said any country trafficking drugs into the U.S. could be subject to attack.

President Donald Trump expressed concerns about the now-halted presidential vote count in Honduras in a statement on Monday — stressing that there will be “hell to pay” if the results are altered.

Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro on Monday once again danced to the “Not War, Yes Peace” remix song of his past “English” messages to the United States.

Preliminary results from Honduran authorities indicate that conservative candidate Nasry Asfura is narrowly leading the presidential election.

President Donald Trump confirmed to reporters Sunday aboard Air Force One that he spoke with Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro over the phone.

Argentine President Javier Milei formally launched the “Isaac Accords,” declaring Argentina would serve as a “pioneer” with the United States in advancing a new regional framework to expand political, economic, and cultural cooperation with Israel.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported Jorge Luis Vega García, allegedly one of the Cuban communist regime’s most feared prison torturers, Martí Noticias reported Thursday.

U.S. law enforcement needs a single, articulated national strategy to counter the Venezuelan terrorist gang Tren de Aragua, José Gustavo Arocha, national security expert at the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS), told Breitbart News.

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth will visit the Dominican Republic on Wednesday amid Operation Southern Spear’s fight against drug trafficking.

Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday ordered conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving his 27 year and three month prison sentence for “crimes against democracy.”

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar told the Argentina-based outlet Infobae the South American nation will finish moving its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem by May 2026.