The communist government of Cuba arrested nearly 500 people for political reasons in January, most members of peaceful dissident movements attempting to practice their religion or silently expressing dissent with the Castro regime.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration may designate Iran’s hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization, Reuters has learned from U.S. officials speaking on conditional of anonymity.
Protests preventing police from leaving their barracks have led to an astronomical spike in homicides, looting, and other violent crime in Espirito Santo, Brazil, north of Rio de Janeiro.
Argentina’s president Mauricio Macri has issued a new immigration decree granting law enforcement greater discretion in deporting criminal foreigners, a move that has incensed his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales and his supporters on the far left.
Rio de Janeiro’s legendary Maracana stadium, built for the 1950 World Cup, lies in a state of semi-ruin six months after the 2016 Rio Olympics, a product of a dispute between the firm that owns the stadium and the Rio 2016 committee.
The head of Venezuela’s opposition coalition in the legislature denounced the violent takeover of a Catholic Mass in late January by armed Chavista gangs known as colectivos, who forced those congregated to listen to a disparaging rant against the Catholic Church instead of prayer.
The human rights organization Amnesty International has called for the immediate liberation of prisoner of conscience Eduardo Cardet Concepción, a member of an anti-Communist Christian group arrested in Cuba shortly after the death of dictator Fidel Castro.
Venezuela’s anti-socialist opposition coalition announced Thursday it would no longer participate in Vatican-sponsored talks with the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro, noting that the government has been “arrogant and rude” and done nothing to advance the liberation of political prisoners or improve the economy.
Inmates at a northern Brazilian prison filmed themselves cooking the bodies of rival gang members over an improvised grill following the latest in a series of riots throughout Brazil’s overpopulated, barely-controlled prison system.
A socialist food distributor in Venezuela was arrested this week for keeping “faulty” food packages and selling them on the black market for 10,500 bolívars, about one-fourth of the state-mandated minimum wage monthly salary.
Cuba has released Danilo Maldonado Machado, an artist also known as “El Sexto,” after nearly two months in prison for having celebrated the death of Fidel Castro in public.
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.
With two days left as America’s chief executive, President Barack Obama has approved a series of new agreements with the Cuban Communist Party designed to allow Cuba a greater role in “aeronautical search and rescue.”
Socialist International has issued a statement condemning the socialist government of Venezuela for keeping political prisoners, collapsing the nation’s economy, and generally “reflect[ing] the characteristics of a failed state.”
A war between rival drug gangs has triggered a third massacre in an overcrowded Brazilian prison. After a 14-hour riot, police found 26 inmates charred and beheaded and had little time to begin identifying them before yet another disturbance began on Monday.
Socialist Venezuela has announced new measures to activate its military, including a schedule of events intended to incorporate civilians into marches and other “revolutionary” activity in case the nation needs to wage a “prolonged war of the people.”
Brazilian police have yet to recapture over 100 inmates who escaped from two northern prisoners in riots on New Year’s Day and appear ill-equipped to rapidly resolve the institutional decay that allowed the riots to occur in the first place.
(Associated Press) The Obama administration is ending the “wet foot, dry foot” policy that granted residency to Cubans who arrived in the United States without visas.
Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro announced a new 50 percent increase in the nation’s minimum wage, a move experts say will only serve to contribute to the collapse of the bolívar currency and push the nation deeper into hyperinflation.
Cuban soldiers threatened to kill President Barack Obama, vowing “a hat made of lead” for the American head of state, in a chant during a march to celebrate the 58th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro has appointed Aragua state governor Tareck El Aissami the nation’s new vice president. Multiple reports have linked El Aissami to both a major cocaine trafficking outlet and the jihadi terror organization Hezbollah.
Brayan Bremer, one of over hundreds of inmates who escaped from two prisons in western Brazil over New Year’s Eve, is taunting police with selfies apparently taken from deep within the Amazon rainforest which surfaced on Facebook throughout the week.
For the second time this week, inmates at a western Brazilian prison staged a bloody riot, leaving 33 dead — among them, 30 beheaded and multiple bodies with hearts torn out.
The governor of Amazonas, the state in which a prison riot-turned-massacre left over 50 inmates dead, has sparked controversy by dismissing the dead as “not saints” as Brazil’s Justice Minister revealed that authorities had evidence that should have indicated gang members were organizing a riot before it happened.
Graphic images of a massacre that left 56 dead in a prison in Manaus, northern Brazil, this week have surfaced, reportedly taken by prisoners themselves, showing bodies left in pools of blood and decapitated heads lined up on the floor.
The Cuban government accompanied its annual celebration of the anniversary of the Revolution this week with a postponed display of military might experts suggest was aimed at intimidating American President-elect Donald Trump.
The government of Cuba began 2017 with the mass arrest of dissident leaders, including Ladies in White head Berta Soler, to prevent groups from attending New Year’s Day Catholic Mass.
An extensive Associated Press report unveiled that Venezuela’s military, now in full control of all food that enters the country, has been reselling it at astronomical markups.
An attorney representing Joshua Holt, an American arrested in Venezuela under dubious “terrorism” charges, says she has not been allowed to see him for most of December, since the fourth scheduled hearing the judge in his case chose not to attend.
Venezuelan Socialist Party Vice President Diosdado Cabello – the second most powerful socialist in the country – has flatly denied news reports of rampant looting and violence in Bolívar state, where police arrested hundreds for attacking markets, restaurants, convenience stores, and private residences.
Nearly 100 Cuban refugees reached the United States in the past week, with 51 refugees landing in the Florida Keys on Sunday alone. With the number of Cubans risking their lives on the high seas booming since President Barack Obama “normalized” relations with Cuba in 2014, officials fear a greater increase following the death of Fidel Castro.
Shiite Iran’s narco-jihadist proxy Hezbollah is operating a “virtually unopposed drug trafficking operation” in South America with links to the terrorist group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), reports the bipartisan House Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing.
Venezuelans are looting shops, desperately lining up at banks, and burning their highest-denomination bolívar bills following a failure by President Nicolás Maduro to distribute new bills in light of the nation’s official descent into hyperinflation.
Venezuelan foreign minister Delcy Rodríguez broke through a barrage of police and economic officials in Buenos Aires, Argentina, earlier this week in an attempt to storm into a meeting of the South American trade bloc Mercosur, which has suspended Venezuela’s membership due to its repeated violations of human rights.
A new report in Bloomberg reveals that U.S. authorities are investigating evidence suggesting that the socialist government of Venezuela paid Iran “hundreds of millions” as part of a money laundering scheme designed to avoid human rights sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic.
A study finds that more than 2.4 million Venezuelans resort to eating garbage to survive, as video of this phenomenon surfaces – Venezuelans patiently waiting for markets to throw away their rotted produce and dig for anything remotely edible.
President Barack Obama’s “normalization” policy towards dictator Raúl Castro and death of the latter’s elder brother Fidel have put Cuba on the road to tallying over 10,000 politically-motivated arrests in 2016, according to an NGO tracking human rights violations on the island.
Venezuela’s anti-socialist opposition has skipped a third meeting with the government mediated by the Vatican as the Socialist Party’s second-in-command chides Pope Francis for being “disrespectful,” in a sign that the Vatican’s role in attempting to bring an end to Venezuela’s woes has changed little.
Women living in Venezuela’s border region are flocking into neighboring Colombia to sell their hair, sometimes for as little as $20 a head.
Cuban visual artist Danilo Maldonado (El Sexto) was arrested last week after publicly celebrating the death of dictator Fidel Castro. He has reportedly refused to eat prison food, claiming that the state is slipping sleeping pills into his food to prevent him from shouting, “down with Castro,” in his jail cell.
