Daniel Llorente, a Cuban dissident arrested last May 1 for waving an American flag in front of the communist nation’s May Day procession, remains institutionalized at a mental ward despite not being treated for any disease or charged with a crime.
Contents: Cuba’s new president Miguel Díaz-Canel makes delusional promise to continue Socialist revolution; The Socialist delusion in Cuba; Cuba’s faltering economy and the dual currency problem
In his debut speech as the “President” of Cuba on Thursday, Miguel Díaz-Canel, billed as Raúl Castro’s hand-picked successor, made abundantly clear that Castro would continue to govern the country, telling the National Assembly that Castro “will preside over all major decisions for the present and future of the nation.”
WASHINGTON, DC — Iran has “converted and radicalized thousands of Latin Americans” throughout the years by dispatching imams to the region and establishing mosques and “cultural centers” that Hezbollah used as recruiting tools, an expert on the Islamic Republic indicated while testifying before a House panel.
Thousands of Venezuelan workers quit the country’s state-run oil company Petroleum of Venezuela (PDSVA) following the installation of Major General Manuel Quevedo as its head this month.
International news outlets were abuzz Tuesday with the news that the Cuban General Assembly, the nation’s legislature, will vote a new president in to replace Raúl Castro, leaving the head of state running only the Communist Party.
Two far leftist groups occupied a luxury beachfront triplex property Monday that Brazilian police say leftist ex-president and current presidential frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva received as part of a kickback from companies benefitting from corruption during his tenure.
Estimated thousands of members of the Venezuelan exile community in Peru marched on the streets of Lima Thursday night to demand that the Summit of the Americas, which the city is currently hosting, address the socialist-driven humanitarian crisis in their country.
Dozens of Cuban government agents forced the shutdown of a forum on civil society in the hemisphere at the Summit of the Americas Thursday by shouting over all the speakers until organizers postponed the meeting. The incident is an example of what pro-democracy activists call a “climate of violence” that the regime has brought to the event.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has finally given up on his plan to crash the Summit of Americas, having previously promised to attend come “rain, hail, or shine.”
The White House announced this week that President Donald Trump will be the first president to skip the Summit of the Americas in the history of that event, blaming tensions erupting in Syria for his decision.
“The golden opportunity for Chinese start-ups to ‘go Latin’ may have arrived,” China’s state-run Global Times declared on Tuesday, pointing to the enormous increase in Chinese trade with Latin America over the past two decades and China’s promise to invest $250 billion in the decade to come.
A top peace negotiator for the Colombian terrorist group FARC who was expected to take a lawmaking seat in Colombia’s Congress this year was arrested late Monday on charges of attempting to traffic ten tons of cocaine into the United States.
Sen. Dick Durbin has announced he is “heartbroken” after visiting the socialist state of Venezuela, which is currently embroiled in the worst political, economic, and humanitarian crisis in its history.
Brazil’s socialist Workers’ Party (PT) is scrambling for a plan after its leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, began to serve a 12-year prison sentence on corruption charges Sunday.
President Donald Trump will urge Latin American countries to accept the United States as their trading “partner of choice” instead of China in Peru next week, according to senior administration officials.
With the election six months away, Brazil awoke Thursday morning to an open presidential race. The overwhelming frontrunner, corrupt socialist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, would now begin his 12-year prison sentence for money laundering and accepting bribes.
Leftist supporters of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have surrounded Sao Paulo, Brazil’s Metalworkers’ Union headquarters, where Lula has remained in hiding after the nation’s top court decreed he could begin serving a 12-year prison sentence on corruption charges immediately.
The likelihood of an all-out trade war between the United States and China may drive communist Beijing to increase further its reliance on its top economic partner Brazil, Latin America’s largest economy.
Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro mourned a court order allowing for the imprisonment of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on a 12-year prison sentence for corruption.
Many of Brazil’s youth are turning towards conservatism amid multiple corruption scandals and economic decline under leftist rule.
President Donald Trump does not plan to sit down with Cuba’s President Raul Castro during his attendance at the Summit of the Americas.
Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) ruled early Thursday morning against a habeas corpus petition that would have kept socialist former president and presidential frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from beginning to serve a 12-year prison sentence for corruption.
An NGO that tracks violence against dissidents in Cuba published a monthly report this week finding that Cuban communist agents committed over 300 political arrests in March, most of short duration, resulting in the repeated arrests of dissidents considered particularly dangerous to the regime.
Protesters in Brazil have organized street manifestations on Tuesday in anticipation of a final appellate decision on whether former president – and current presidential frontrunner – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will have to begin to serve his 12-year prison sentence immediately, effectively cutting off his presidential campaign.
Brazilian newspapers reported Monday that Facebook had shut down two fan pages for conservative presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro over the weekend, leaving over 900,000 social media users in the dark about the fate of their groups.
Venezuela’s Minister for Education Elías Jaua has claimed that the country’s depleted supermarkets would be full of food if people did not eat so much.
A Bible publisher protested this week that the Cuban communist regime has prevented them from distributing 17,000 copies printed for the island of the New International Version of the text, an update only legally available to Cuba since the regime lifted its ban on printing new Bibles in 2015.
Mexican cartels are “effectively using China to launder money,” a move that may potentially allow Beijing to establish a robust law enforcement presence in Latin America in addition to its current significant military activities in the region, an expert from U.S. Army War College warned this week.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on Tuesday that he will knock three zeros off their currency and create a new monetary system known as the “sovereign bolivar.”
Cuban pro-democracy activist Guillermo Fariñas announced via Twitter on Wednesday that communist authorities told a fellow dissident that no individual known to oppose the Castro regime will be allowed to engage in “visa procedures” until the Summit of the Americas ends next month.
Peru lived yet another tense moment on Friday morning as President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski threatened to withdraw his resignation from the nation’s highest office if Congress rejected it and pursued impeachment proceedings, instead.
WASHINGTON, DC — The struggling socialist Venezuelan regime, a global hub for crime-terror convergence, has been harboring criminal and terrorist groups such as Iran’s proxy Hezbollah, Chinese Triads, the Russian Mafia, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), an expert on Latin America told lawmakers.
China and Russia are “expanding aggressively” throughout the Western Hemisphere while pumping money and weapons into authoritarian regimes across Latin America, a move that poses a potential U.S. national security threat, warned Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).
Police in Colombia arrested a Cuban national illegally present in the country on Tuesday after communications with Islamic State-affiliated individuals through the encrypted app Telegram revealed he was plotting a jihadist attack on the capital, Bogotá.
The anti-American government of Venezuela has facilitated the growth of Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah and its human and drug trafficking operations across Latin America all the way up to the U.S.-Mexico border, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and some analysts warn.
President Donald Trump has announced the removal of Rex Tillerson from his position as Secretary of State after just over a year in office.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced during Monday’s press briefing that President Donald Trump will travel to Peru and Colombia in April.
The Marxist FARC terrorist group, now a legalized political party, announced its withdrawal from the Colombian presidential race on Thursday following its leader and presidential candidate, “Timochenko,” suffering a heart attack.
Brazil’s appellate court rejected leftist Brazilian president and current presidential frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s habeas corpus request on Tuesday that would have kept him from prison until he exhausted his final appeal on a 12-year corruption sentenced handed down last year.
