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CNN revealed on Sunday that U.S. sources had stated the number of American embassy personnel in Cuba affected by a mysterious wave of sonic attacks that may have left some permanently deaf is significantly higher than initially reported.

Former socialist Brazilian president – and current convict on high-profile corruption charges – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva launched a tour of Brazil’s most impoverished communities this week in the hopes of establishing himself as the frontrunner in the October 2018 elections.

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.

The governor of Venezuela’s inland Amazonas province denounced a “massacre” Wednesday at a prison in his state, alleging that police acting at the behest of the socialist regime attempted to storm the prison and killed 37 inmates in the process.

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.

Protesters in Venezuela speaking to Agence-France Presse Tuesday called the main opposition party’s participation in socialist-controlled elections this year a “mockery” as anti-socialist groups lament dwindling numbers at what were previously thousands-strong elections.

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.

Nicolás Maduro Guerra, son of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro Moros, threatened to storm New York City and “take the White House” in response to President Donald Trump’s suggestion that a U.S. military option against the socialist regime existed this weekend.

A major fault line in Venezuela’s opposition movement surfaced this week as the socialist elements of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) urge participation in the government’s regional elections, which the center-right opposition rejects as a move legitimizing dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro ordered his foreign minister to reach out to American counterparts to schedule a meeting with President Donald Trump on Thursday.

China appears to be souring on the decades-old decision to invest heavily in Venezuela, now arguably the world’s worst economy, with its state media suggesting Wednesday that keeping commitments to Venezuela “is at the cost of great risk” and the nation’s banks should reconsider business there.

Fresh off the heels of an election the world has rejected as a “sham,” Venezuela banned the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) party from running local candidates in a third of the nation on Tuesday.

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.

Dictator Nicolás Maduro’s socialist legislature used its first session to remove Luisa Ortega Díaz, the nation’s chief prosecutor, from her office this weekend, a move Ortega said she did not recognize and will not abide by.

A group of men identifying themselves as Venezuelan soldiers published a video on social media calling for an overthrow of the socialist regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro, shortly before the government announced it had quelled an uprising in Carabobo state on Sunday.

The socialist regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro has begun the swearing-in of the “National Constituent Assembly,” a parallel legislature Maduro created to stifle the opposition-held National Assembly.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has postponed the installation of the “national constituents’ assembly” (ANC), a fabricated socialist lawmaking body meant to usurp the power of the National Assembly, following an election widely believed to be fraudulent.

“The only way you are getting rid of this Parliament is by killing the 112 representatives who are here,” opposition lawmaker Freddy Guevara said on Tuesday, asserting that Venezuela’s National Assembly will not give up their seats to the socialist parallel legislature dictator Nicolás Maduro is scheduled to install on August 3.

Venezuela’s Secret Police (Sebin) stormed the homes of opposition leader Leopoldo López and rightful mayor of Caracas Antonio Ledezma early Tuesday morning, taking the two men away over alleged violations of their house arrest provisions.

Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro has responded to U.S. sanctions banning him from the country Monday with an outrageous tirade in which he claimed the White House was in the hands of the Ku Klux Klan and calling the sanctions a sign of America’s “impotence, desperation, and hate.”

An NGO documenting police repression in Venezuela announced on Monday that the government arrested 96 people during Sunday’s vote for a parallel legislature, adding to over a dozen known deaths amid police attacks on protesters Sunday.

The socialist government of Venezuela has banned “public assemblies and protests,” threatening up to ten years in prison for anyone participating in them, following nearly five months of daily protests against the government.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has again attempted to send President Donald Trump an English-language message during a rally, insisting that his nation will hold an illegal vote to draft a socialist-friendly constitution and insisting that “Mister Emperator Trump … go home.”

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro staged an elaborate ceremony Wednesday to applaud the thirteen socialist officials named in the latest round of U.S. Treasury sanctions against the regime, intended to punish the government for its gratuitous human rights abuses against unarmed protesters.

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.

Former Guantánamo Bay detainee Jihad Ahmad Diyab’s fourth attempt to escape Uruguay and return to his native Middle East has failed after Morocco deported him this week for using a falsified passport.

Sao Paulo’s Israeli Federation is protesting a planned visit on July 29 to Brazil by Iraqi-born Iranian Ayatollah Mohsen Araki, who has referred to Israel as a “cancer” and keeps close ties to the both the Iranian government and its terror proxy Hezbollah.

Former socialist Spanish president Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero told Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López this week that dictator Nicolás Maduro is willing to postpone a vote to elect drafters of a new constitution if the opposition offers a “cooling off” of protests, according to the Miami Herald.

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.

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro vowed Sunday to go forward with a vote to elect representatives to draft a new constitution intended to cement his stranglehold on power despite international condemnation and pressure to cancel plans to do so.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is attempting to stage a coup by imposing a new to-be-written constitution on a nation in which there is no functional divide between civilian and military rule, a Venezuelan opposition spokesman told Breitbart News.

Latin America and the Caribbean continue to provide “financial and ideological support” for the Sunni Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and Shiite Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah, reveals the most recent Country Reports on Terrorism issued by the U.S. State Department.

Luis Almagro, the head of the Organization of American States (OAS), told a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee Wednesday that Venezuela was “the most corrupt country on the continent” and called for further sanctions to weaken the “illegitimate” socialist regime there.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Latin American countries have failed to register Iranian proxy Hezbollah as a terrorist organization despite the threat it poses to the region, a Peruvian official revealed during a discussion on Capitol Hill.

Venezuela’s foreign minister Samuel Moncada announced Tuesday that the socialist government would conduct a “profound review” of U.S.-Venezuela relations after President Donald Trump referred to head of state Nicolás Maduro as a “bad leader who dreams of becoming a dictator” and threatening further sanctions.

In yet another attack on the Catholic faithful, socialist colectivo gangs stormed the Carmen Church in Caracas, Venezuela Sunday, holding Archbishop of Caracas Jorge Urosa Savino and hundreds of worshippers hostage for hours.