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.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, in bidding farewell to the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro during a ceremony in Havana attended by various world leaders, quoted the island nation’s independence leader José Martí, saying, “Mexico is a land of refuge.”
As Cuba continues to endure a mandatory nine-day mourning period for its late dictator Fidel Castro, the nation’s Santeria priests (babalawos) have once again begun to speculate about decades-old rumors that Castro practiced their African religion and to warn that Castro’s spirit may still haunt the island.
Cuban dictator Fidel Castro reportedly left behind millions in private mansions, yachts, private islands, and even a personal cheese factory. While the Castro family has imposed a mandatory nine-day mourning period over Cuba, questions remain as to who will inherit the head of state’s fortune.
Radical leftist Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was among the few leaders representing Europe at an hours-long event commemorating the life of dictator Fidel Castro in Cuba, praising the brutal tyrant as an “international symbol of struggle and resistance” who “inspired political and social changes in Latin America.”
The nine-day mandatory mourning period continued in Cuba on Tuesday, the designated day for foreign leaders to speak of the legacy of dictator Fidel Castro. Castro’s brother, dictator Raúl, announced the 90-year-old’s death on Friday. Cuba has imposed a mourning
While the freedom-loving peoples of the world, especially the Cuban exile community in the United States, celebrate the death of dictator Fidel Castro, the Cuban government has recruited a who’s who of leftist elites to mourn at his funeral, including delegations from Iran, South Africa, and North Korea.
Cuban television appears to have mistakenly broadcast a conversation in which a producer warns a news anchor that the communist government has banned the use of “good morning,” “good afternoon” and “good night” during the mandatory nine-day mourning period for dictator Fidel Castro.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office has confirmed that he will not be attending the funeral of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, a man Trudeau has called a “larger-than-life” leader and “legendary revolutionary.” The Prime Minister’s office issued a statement only
Fidel Castro, the dictator who used firing squads, labor camps, beatings, torture, and hunger to oppress his people for more than half a century, died Friday night at the age of 90. His demise – though his brother, Raúl, remains in power – has led many to ask what the future holds for Cuba’s anti-communist dissident community.
The Cuban communist regime has imposed a nine-day mourning period following the death of dictator Fidel Castro, banning the public sales of alcohol, playing music, or “public spectacles.”
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the head of the deadly Marxist narco-terror group FARC signed a new “peace deal” Thursday after Colombians rejected the amnesty deal in a popular vote last month.
CARACAS, Venezuela – Under the rule of charismatic revolutionary dictator Hugo Chávez, Venezuela positioned itself as the one of the world’s most prominent socialist ‘havens,’ with Chávez regularly expressing an extremely hostile approach to what he described as ‘US imperialism.’
Representatives of Venezuela’s socialist government reportedly abandoned talks with the opposition on Tuesday in a move one opposition member argued made a “mockery of the pope,” who vouched for the talks.
The chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, in an interview with Breitbart News after meeting with various government officials in South America last weekend, warns that the nexus between radical Islamic terrorists and criminal groups in Latin America is “growing” and poses a major threat to the United States.
The communist government of Cuba has announced a “Fighting People’s March” in Havana on December 2 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Castro brothers landing in Cuba after fleeing a confrontation with Fulgencio Batista’s forces.
While the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the global Zika outbreak no longer an emergency this week, officials in Brazil fear that the incoming spring season will provide a boost to the nation’s mosquito population, and the government will be ill-prepared to stop a second wave of Zika.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro said he “aspires, expects, and will work for” a friendly relationship with President-elect Donald Trump, despite Trump emphasizing support for Venezuela’s anti-socialist opposition in his campaign platform.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), as it loses territory in the Middle East, is infiltrating Latin America, warns Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) in a letter sent to President Barack Obama this week.
The socialist government of Venezuela has been torturing U.S. citizen Joshua Holt in prison, forcing him to violate his Mormon faith and perform “calisthenics” naked in the hallways of the prison, according to Holt’s family.
Brazilian police have arrested two former governors of Rio de Janeiro state — one for involvement in the sprawling Petrobras corruption scandal, one for allegedly buying votes — within a 24-hour period.
“Leopoldo López will remain in prison because he is a murderer,” Diosdado Cabello, the second most powerful socialist in Venezuela, said amid laughs on his television show on Saturday, referring to an opposition leader who counted his 1,000th day in prison on Sunday.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has announced the conclusion of a new “peace deal” with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a Marxist terrorist group. This agreement appears to be designed to avoid a national referendum and thus another round of humiliation if the people reject it again.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, facing his own anti-Islamist resistance at home, called Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro on Wednesday to express his support for the socialist regime and the calls for “dialogue” with the opposition, many of whom Maduro has imprisoned.
As many observers have noted, the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency is the latest in a series of seismic global political shifts. Many of those have occurred oceans away, from Western Europe to the Middle East to Asia.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is heading to Latin America next week — Ecuador, Peru, and Chile — while Chinese diplomats have scheduled a December meeting with Venezuelan counterparts.
The parents of an American being held hostage in Venezuela published a stern column condemning the Obama administration’s treatment of the families of hostages, arguing that the government only helps those families with the skill to navigate the “byzantine bureaucracy of the U.S. government.”
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro – now legally declared a dictator following the illegal suppression of a constitutional recall against him – launched a new tropical music radio program this week titled Salsa Time.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro did not attend a hearing at the nation’s legislature Tuesday, to which he was summoned for gross violations of the Constitution in his treatment of the opposition.
The members of Venezuela’s legislature, the National Assembly, arrived at work Thursday morning to find that the socialist government had shut the congressional building’s lights off and police were blockading their entry.
The Venezuelan National Assembly has passed a declaration demanding dictator President Nicolás Maduro appear before the legislature to defend himself against accusations of having overridden the Venezuela’s Constitution to remain in power, causing the collapse of the Venezuelan economy and using violence to suppress political dissidents.
The head of Venezuela’s anti-socialist opposition in the legislature denounced an attempt to “lynch” multiple lawmakers by a mob of about 300 Chavistas following the legislature’s decision to declare an aberration from the constitutional order and accuse president Nicolás Maduro of a coup d’etat.
Anti-socialist legislators in Venezuela have released a report finding that the nation’s state-run oil corporation, Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), is missing $11 billion unaccounted for in the past decade.
Venezuela’s morgues are woefully lacking in preservation chemicals, air conditioning, and essential supplies, resulting in the rapid decay of dozens of bodies, some even exploding as part of the decomposition process.
The parents of multiple late prisoners in the western state of Táchira, Venezuela, say the government did nothing to stop a notorious cannibal from killing and eating their children – and forcing other prisoners to eat human flesh or face
Ingrid Betancourt, a former Colombian presidential candidate who spent six years as a hostage of the FARC, said Friday that she believed FARC leaders deserved to share the Nobel Peace Prize with this year’s winner, President Juan Manuel Santos.
On the eve of the announcement of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, various experts and committee members predicted a Peace Prize for Colombia’s president, Juan Manuel Santos, was “out of the question” thanks to the Colombian people rejecting an amnesty deal for the FARC.
Both Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC terror group chief “Timochenko” have been dropped from the shortlist of Nobel Peace Prize candidates after the nation rejected a peace deal that would have allowed the FARC to evolve into a political party.
A group of 18 Cuban men and women navigated off the island to Honduras, arriving in Central America on Tuesday morning, just as forecasts predicted Hurricane Matthew would be slamming into the Caribbean.
The government of Iran has refused to hand over the 6-year-old daughter of Colombian national Sandra Meneses, who tricked her Iranian husband into a “vacation” back to her hometown of Cali in order to escape the myriad abuses she had endured while living with him in Iran.
