Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela is now focused on repressing protests relating to widespread hunger rather than their political opposition to his leadership, as his government seeks to retain a level of credibility on the international stage.
The International Monetary Fund is predicting that inflation in Venezuela will surpass 10 million percent by the end of 2019, the organization said in its World Economic Outlook report on Monday.
Contents: China aids Venezuela as inflation rate exceeds one million percent; Venezuela migration crisis continues to grow
Brazil’s House of Representatives will soon feature over double the number of representatives with military experience than it did before Sunday’s election. According to a tally by Folha de Sao Paulo, 22 members of the lower chamber are either veterans or retired military personnel.
Fernando Albán, a local councilman in Caracas, died in police custody on Monday shortly after returning from New York and taken into custody on Friday. Venezuelan officials claim Albán threw himself from the tenth floor of Secret Police (Sebin) headquarters, a claim opposition leaders aggressively rejected.
Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime in Venezuela arrested nurses and doctors across the country this weekend for repeatedly protesting the lack of medicine and essential resources required for them to treat their patients.
Fernando Haddad, the socialist Workers’ Party (PT) candidate for president in Brazil, made his first public act since securing a spot in this month’s run-off election a visit to prison on Monday, where PT leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is serving a 12-year prison sentence for corruption.
A former porn star successfully rode the conservative wave in Brazil’s nationwide elections on Sunday, gaining over 150,000 votes to become a federal representative of his home city of São Paolo.
Conservative candidate Jair Bolsonaro won the first round of Brazil’s presidential election Sunday, securing the top spot against socialist Fernando Haddad in a run-off race scheduled for October 28.
Brazil’s conservative presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro reached 39 percent support in a poll released Thursday, a new high placing him 14 points ahead of the second place candidate just three days from the national election.
One child was murdered every eight hours in Venezuela last year, according to a report published the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (OVV) on Wednesday.
A monthly report tracking politically motivated arrests in Cuba published this week revealed that over half the victims of these arrests, most members of pro-democracy dissident groups, were women, an indication the communist regime is systematically targeting women for repression.
Cuban dissident Tomás Núñez Magdariaga, imprisoned on false charges of threats against state police, reached day 50 of his hunger strike on Wednesday.
Colombia is preparing to receive around four million Venezuelans over the coming years as the humanitarian crisis under Nicolás Maduro’s socialist dictatorship continues to worsen.
Nearly two million people have fled Venezuela since 2015 as the economic and humanitarian catastrophe under Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime continues to fester international alarm.
Brazilian conservative candidate Jair Bolsonaro gained six points among women voters in a poll released Tuesday, less than a week after he was accused of threatening to kill his ex-wife and after a weekend in which leftist feminist protests drew thousands to convene nationwide to reject his candidacy.
Thousands of left-wing protesters took the streets of dozens of cities across the country Saturday to oppose Brazilian presidential frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro, triggering similarly populated rallies in support for the candidate nationwide on Sunday.
Cuban dissidents published a video Sunday showing the head of Cuba’s pro-democracy Ladies in White group, Berta Soler, being assaulted and dragged away by state security for holding up a sign reading “Revolution is Repression.”
Venezuelan Police detained a journalist this week for interviewing patients receiving treatment onboard a Chinese hospital ship, local media reported.
Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro made his way to New York Wednesday to address the United Nations General Assembly, where he accused the United States of orchestrating a terrorist attack against him and, without mentioning the grave humanitarian crisis his government created, declared, “Venezuela is stronger than ever.”
Two candidates in Peru named “Hitler and “Lennin” will face off in a mayoral election for control of a small village in the Andes mountains.
Miguel Díaz-Canel, the titular “president” sent to the United Nations to represent dictator Raúl Castro at the General Assembly this week, dedicated his address to defying U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for the world to reject socialism and warn the world it should “not harbor any illusions” that Cuba would change with his new title.
Colombia’s conservative president Iván Duque made his first address to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, demanding global intervention to stop the socialist dictatorship in Venezuela from “annihilating the freedoms” of its people.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro branded President Donald Trump a coward on Tuesday after the United States imposed sanctions on his wife Celia Flores and other high-ranking regime officials.
Tomás Núñez Magdariaga, a Cuban political prisoner imprisoned on false assault charges, entered day 42 of a hunger strike Tuesday. His case rises to prominence as Cuban puppet president Miguel Díaz-Canel makes the social rounds at the United Nations in New York.
Car owners in Táchira, Venezuela, had to wait up to five days to buy gasoline this week after Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime piloted a new scheme to keep foreigners from profiting off of subsidized prices.
Five prominent Latin American democracies will ask the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday to investigate Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime in Venezuela on charges of crimes against humanity.
Marco Noel Novoa survived over a week of intense torture in a Nicaraguan prison, exacerbated by the communist regime knowing his status as a U.S. citizen and fearing he was working for the CIA. In remarks to Breitbart News this week, Novoa says the violence against pro-democracy student protesters like himself continues, even if international media attention has waned.
A paraplegic man has fled Venezuela in his wheelchair in search of medicine, as the humanitarian crisis under Nicolás Maduro’s socialist dictatorship continues to worsen.
The “world’s preeminent state sponsor of terrorism” Iran and its proxy Hezbollah maintain an operational presence across Latin America and in the United States, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) reported this week.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime revealed in a report Wednesday that Colombia produced record yields of cocaine in 2017, a major blow to joint U.S.-Colombian investment in dissuading peasants from harvesting coca leaf and an outcome some conservatives predicted as inevitable to peace talks with the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro said on Tuesday that he may skip his planned trip to the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week over fears that an unspecified “they” is trying to kill him.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro told the nation in a televised press conference Tuesday that the funds he secured from the Communist Party of China during a visit to Beijing last week were not economic aid – Venezuela will pay for that money with at least one million barrels of oil.
The head of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro, warned on Monday that it is the responsibility of the international community to avoid a Rwanda style genocide in Venezuela.
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper boasted of Beijing’s expanded presence in Venezuela on Sunday, noting that the “U.S. is skeptical for geopolitical reasons” of growing ties between socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and Communist Party chief Xi Jinping.
Colombia, Canada, and Guyana refused to sign a declaration ruling out a military solution to the crisis in Venezuela on Sunday, agreeing with comments by the head of the Organization of American States.
Venezuelans suffering through the worst crisis in the nation’s history have responded with outrage to actor Jim Carrey’s call to the world to “say yes to socialism.” In a column published Wednesday, columnist Laureano Márquez argued that Carrey misunderstands the “repression” conducted in the name of socialism in places like the Latin American country.
China agreed to provide Venezuela with a $5 billion credit line in return for future oil payments ahead of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s visit to Beijing, the country’s finance minister announced on Wednesday.
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced in a letter from prison Tuesday that he would not be running in October’s presidential race, shortly before the deadline to sign up for the presidential ballot and months after his conviction on corruption charges disqualified him from running in the election.
A poll published by the Brazilian research firm Datafolha on Tuesday found that conservative presidential frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro expanded his lead by two points since being stabbed at a campaign rally last week.