Lawmaker Luis Pardo Sáinz told Breitbart News in an interview Thursday that authorities in his native Chile have “well-founded suspicions” that communists tied to the Castro regime in Cuba and allies of the rogue socialist regime in Venezuela are playing a role in ongoing violent protests.
The regional government of O’Higgins, Chile, announced the deportation of 50 illegal immigrants, among them 30 Cuban nationals, after some were caught participating in looting and riots, Diario de Cuba reported on Monday.
A woman in Argentina making her way to the Chilean border had nine pounds of pot hidden inside a fake wearable stomach to make it look like she was carrying a child, police said.
The singer Mon Laferte bared her breasts Thursday on the red carpet of the Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas, protesting police brutality amid ongoing civil unrest in her native Chile.
Violent riots in Chile have thrown the “phase one” trade deal between the U.S. and China into doubt.
Religious leaders in Chile called people to pray for the end of left-wing riots taking place across the country on Tuesday, after a weekend marred by violence that saw at least 15 people killed and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.
Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno called Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro an “ass” in remarks Monday during a meeting with Ecuador’s Confederation of Workers.
At least 11 people have died during violent riots in Chile this weekend following huge anti-government demonstrations that initially began in opposition to a four percent rise in subway fares.
Diosdado Cabello, a U.S.-sanctioned drug trafficker and one of Venezuela’s most powerful socialist henchmen, took credit for the violent riots that have consumed Ecuador and Chile this month, calling them the “little breeze” of a coming “Bolivarian hurricane” during a weekend rally.
The president spoke about the deal during remarks with reporters in the Oval Office at the White House after a meeting with the Vice Premier of China.
Latin American leaders called on the international community to find solutions to the crisis in Venezuela during the United Nations General Assembly this week, as Nicolás Maduro’s socialist dictatorship continues to preside over the most serious political and economic crisis in the region.
Chilean lawmaker Luis Pardo Sainz co-sponsored a bill this week urging Santiago to help create a court to prosecute human rights violations by the communist government of Cuba. Pardo Sainz told Breitbart News Friday that the move is necessary because the world has “forgotten” the Castro regime’s crimes.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet met with members of the Maduro regime, the opposition, and human rights groups during her visit to Venezuela this week.
An electric grid failure described by Argentine President Mauricio Macri as “unprecedented” triggered a blackout affecting tens of millions across South America Sunday.
Spanish actor, artist, and pop icon Miguel Bosé – a household name in Latin America for decades – has launched a pressure campaign to elicit action from U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet that culminated with the singer storming the hotel housing her in Mexico on Tuesday, demanding she break her silence on the crisis in Venezuela.
TEL AVIV – Only moments before the funeral was slated to take place, the family of an Israeli woman killed in a boating accident in Chile last week discovered that the wrong body had been sent for burial.
Latin America has continued its shift towards right-wing, anti-socialist leaders in the year 2018, electing new administrations in Colombia, Brazil, and Chile to change the political climate of a continent dominated by left-wing governments in the 21st century so far.
Several countries have withdrawn their diplomats from Venezuela this week following a sham presidential election that helped cement socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s grip on power.
The entire body of the Chilean Catholic bishops’ conference—34 bishops in all—submitted signed resignations to Pope Francis this week over the country’s clerical sex abuse crisis.
Pope Francis met with three Chilean victims of clerical sex abuse in the Vatican last weekend, in which he apologized to them for being “part of the problem.”
A Chilean lay Catholic group has sharply criticized Pope Francis for defending Bishop Juan Barros while claiming he had no knowledge of sex abuse charges involving a cover-up by the bishop.
A video gone viral on social media shows Pope Francis being hit in the face by a newspaper during his visit to Chile, fueling caption contests in the blogosphere.
Latin American politics for the past decade has been driven by a continental debate on the merits of socialism – a debate that, thanks to the devastating humanitarian situation in Venezuela, conservatives are increasingly poised to win.
Chile has elected former conservative president Sebastián Piñera to another term, rejecting socialist opponent Alejandro Guillier in a result that marks the further collapse of socialist leadership across Latin America.
A Haitian man risked his life to save a woman falling from her ninth-floor balcony in Chile, according to video footage taken by neighbors who witnessed the ordeal.
A transgender Chilean actress has turned in one of the most buzzed-about performances of the year and some are hoping she could be the first trans actor to land an Oscar nomination.
The Constitutional Tribunal of Chile has approved a bill that will allow abortion in some situations, a move that Socialist President Michelle Bachelet has campaigned for since 2015.
Vice President Mike Pence urged Chile, Peru, Mexico, and other Latin American nations to consider cutting all diplomatic ties to North Korea during his visit to Chile on Wednesday, suggesting only a full diplomatic freeze could pressure the rogue communist state to cease its constant threats of nuclear attack.
Vice President Mike Pence will cut short his trip to South America amidst turmoil over the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, but will still visit Panama tomorrow before heading home.
Vice President Mike Pence promised that the United States will “continue to take action” against Venezuela’s dictatorship until demands are met, including the release of political prisoners and restoration of democracy.
Mexico Chile, and Peru are among 11 Latin American nations, plus Canada, who announced they will not recognize the new “Constituent Assembly” created by socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is heading to Latin America next week — Ecuador, Peru, and Chile — while Chinese diplomats have scheduled a December meeting with Venezuelan counterparts.
An Israeli man has accused a Chilean border official of defacing his passport with pro-Palestinian words and a rude drawing.
A group of masked radical leftists broke into the Church of National Gratitude in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, dragging the church’s oversized crucifix into the street and breaking it into pieces during a student protest.
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One of two remaining holdouts against Zika on the Western Hemisphere has confirmed its first locally acquired case of the enigmatic virus. The government of Chile has confirmed that a Zika patient contracted the disease from a sexual partner who had been to Haiti.
Politicians of all political stripes in Chile are facing an investigation into misuse of state corporate funding, which has, so far, incriminated eight political parties, a scandal overshadowed only by the alleged billions stolen from a state-run corporation in neighboring Brazil.
The president of the Chilean soccer federation abruptly took a “medical leave” this week and flew to the U.S. to serve as an FBI informant into FIFA corruption, sources say.
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