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North Korea stands at the top of a list of 50 countries where at least 215 million Christians faced the most severe persecution in 2017, resulting in 3,066 deaths and 1,020 rapes mainly targeting women, revealed Open Doors, an organization that monitors ill-treated Christians worldwide.

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.

Struggling to survive a socialist economy lacking everything from basic maternity goods to cancer drugs, Venezuelans have begun trading at “medical flea markets” outside of the control of the government, where they receive no guarantee the drugs will actually work.

In another extraordinary outburst, Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro accused Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos of drug-trafficking despite substantial evidence his regime sells huge quantities of narcotics itself.

The narco-terrorist group FARC has announced that it has nominated its leader Rodrigo Londoño (alias “Timochenko”) to run for president of Colombia in 2018.

United Nations Assistant Secretary-General of Human Rights Andrew Gilmour lamented the state of Colombia’s program to integrate communist terrorists into civilian society on Friday, warning that, if the plan fails, the terrorists have a “strong chance” of going “back to something worse.”

Republican Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) have warned President Donald Trump against appointing a State Department official and former Clinton aide as the new ambassador to Colombia.

The Marxist terrorist organization FARC–recently relaunched as a political party–has failed to meet the requirements of a peace deal signed in Cuba with the government of Colombia, the U.S. ambassador to that country asserted this week.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to visit three Latin American countries next week, as a part of his ongoing effort to boldly go where none of his predecessors has gone before.

Vowing that “we do not want to break ties to our past,” Colombia’s Marxist terrorist group FARC has announced it will keep its acronym as a political party, while rebranding as the “Revolutionary Alternative Common Force.”

Government officials in Colombia have accused the Venezuelan military of invading the Colombian province of La Guajira, Reuters has reported.

Colombia is preparing for a potential exodus of Venezuelans by drawing up plans for refugee camps, Colombian news outlet El Colombiano has revealed.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly to meet President Donald Trump in the US in mid-September. The two are scheduled to meet on September 17 in New Jersey, likely at Trump’s National Bedminster Golf Club, the Israel Hayom daily reported Sunday.

Vice President Mike Pence made an urgent plea to President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia on Monday to act to reduce record cocaine production in that country during a visit to Bogotá Monday.

The nations sharing a border with Venezuela, increasingly on the brink of civil war, are bracing for an influx of tens of thousands of refugees, most having crossed into Cúcuta, Colombia, and Roraima, Brazil.

The ongoing implementation of the peace pact between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has helped to render the country the world’s top producer of cocaine again, fueling a historic number of overdose deaths in the United States, says the U.S. Department of State (DOS).

The flow of Venezuelans across the Colombian border is quickly becoming an exodus amid the country’s worsening humanitarian crisis, as well as fears of the creation of a “constituent assembly” that will codify the country’s dictatorship into a new constitution.

Colombia’s Marxist FARC terrorists have announced that they will launch a political party in the nation’s capital in September, the product of years of peace negotiations with the government of Juan Manuel Santos that will also allow most in the terrorist group to escape prison sentences.

Costa Rica authorities arrested a 22-year-old Colombian man who allegedly threatened to attack an Ariana Grande concert, less than two months after a suicide bomber killed 22 people during the pop star’s Manchester, England, show.

As Venezuela enters year eighteen of the Bolivarian Socialist Revolution, the international community is finally paying attention, as Venezuelans struggle to find food, medicine, and an outlet for their frustration that will not trigger rampant state violence.

Investigators said the trafficked women – who were shipped in from Central and South America – were forced to have sex with over 100 men per week.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) assisted in the seizure of nearly eight metric tons of cocaine near Latin America – considered one of the largest drug busts in history.

The Colombian government is preparing to reintegrate members of the FARC Marxist narco-terrorist group into its society as they undergo their first round of rehabilitation. FARC terrorists continuing to stage bombings and kidnappings have marred the process, however, which the Colombian people voted against last year.

According to U.S. government estimates, Colombia produced 710 metric tons of cocaine in 2016, compared to 235 in 2013.

Immigration officers removed the former Colombian director of intelligence from the U.S. to face charges in his home country for psychologically torturing a journalist.

A photo of rapper Wiz Khalifa apparently paying tribute to the late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar sparked furor across the South American country this week.

Guatemalan Raúl Arturo Contreras, known as “dead” or “skeleton” in his country’s slang, will soon be a free man after serving 18 months and paying a $100 fine for being part of cocaine trafficking network linked to Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah.

The Colombian government announced Wednesday that it had approved for an amnesty and rehabilitation program four members of the Marxist terror organization FARC, the beginning of the implementation of a peace deal expected to allow 4,500 terrorists to reintegrate into society.

Los Angeles officially has the worst traffic in the world, as drivers spent an average of 104 hours stuck in traffic in 2016.

Brazilian and Colombian officials are warning that Brazil’s largest drug syndicate, the First Capital Command (PCC), has begun hiring members of the Marxist terrorist group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) following the signing of a “peace deal” to disarm the FARC.

Seventeen Colombian nationals were arrested by the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office after allegedly running a burglary operation which targeted Asian and Pakistani communities.

The Obama administration has linked U.S. law enforcement with their Cuban counterparts in a partnership “on counternarcotics, counterterrorism, legal cooperation, and money laundering,” according to a Statement from the U.S. embassy in Havana.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro has temporarily closed the Colombian border in an attempt to “destroy the mafia,” whom he claims are taking advantage of the country’s faltering economy.

Women living in Venezuela’s border region are flocking into neighboring Colombia to sell their hair, sometimes for as little as $20 a head.

The Colombian legislature has passed an updated version of the peace accord proposed by President Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC, over protests from opposition legislators who say it is unconstitutional to agree to such a deal without a democratic vote.

President-elect Donald Trump’s administration will encourage foreign governments to investigate the Clinton Foundation’s finances, according to a source close to the transition team.