A policy dispute in Peru’s presidential runoff election turned racially insensitive this week when the campaign advisor for candidate Pedro Pablo Kuczynski called opposing candidate Keiko Fujimori — a Japanese-Peruvian — a “chinawoman” and said her criticism of his policies was because “her eyes have gotten too wrinkly and she can’t read very well.”
Rosmit Mantilla, an LGBT activist and elected lawmaker for Venezuela’s western Táchira state, marked his second year imprisoned in a secret police facility after being arrested for alleged illicit activity against the socialist regime. He has still not been convicted of any crime.
Brazil’s Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot has formally requested the Supreme Court to allow him to open a corruption investigation against President Dilma Rousseff, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the nation’s attorney general, José Eduardo Cardozo.
Medical experts are warning that new studies show the Zika virus is capable not only of producing in unborn children the brain defect microcephaly, but a variety of severe neurological deformities that could impair a child in unpredictable ways.
A Colombian soldier who participated in the 2003 looting of buried savings hidden by the FARC terrorist group has been captured, and is pleading to be placed in a prison with women, as he used some of the money stolen from the crime scene for a sex change.
The leaders of the world’s wealthiest non-jihadist terrorist organization, the FARC, marched openly alongside thousands forced to carry posters of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro in Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution for Marxist International Workers’ Day celebrations Sunday.
The government of Venezuela will not be paying employees of the National Assembly, including the legislators who work there. The socialist government has refused to appropriate funds for their salaries since the pro-democracy opposition swept legislative elections in December.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has once again called the impeachment process against her a sexist “coup,” lamenting that she will be “very sad” if she cannot attend the Summer Olympics in her country as head of state due to accusations of financial misrepresentation against her.
Brazil confirms this week it has documented a staggering 91,387 cases of Zika in 2016, with more than 7,000 cases being pregnant women. The World Health Organization (WHO) warns the number of Zika cases globally is set to increase, though cooling temperatures may finally lower the rates of infection in Brazil itself.
The mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, has given his first interview since the deadly collapse of a bridge built for the 2016 Summer Olympics, attempting to reassure natives and tourists alike that the Olympics will be safe and his team will “double-check” every detail.
Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolás Maduro has ordered all government employees to come into work only on Mondays and Tuesdays, enraging parents who want their children to go to school and opposition members who have deemed the decree “immoral.”
As Ecuador struggles to organize reconstruction efforts following a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that was felt nationwide earlier this month, socialist President Rafael Correa has announced forced salary contributions from the nation’s middle class and a major tax spike.
A disturbing video of a crowd physically beating each other to get at a select few bags of onions outside a supermarket in Venezuela highlights the struggle the average Venezuelan must endure to keep his or her family fed in the increasingly impoverished socialist nation.
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – President Dilma Rousseff voiced confidence Friday that Brazil’s people will “be able to prevent any setbacks” to democracy as she battles a bid to impeach her. “Brazil is a great country endowed with a
The government of Cuba, after weeks of pressure from pro-freedom activists and a lawsuit against corporate giant Carnival Cruise, will make an exception to a law banning U.S. citizens born in Cuba from landing on the island by sea. Passengers aboard Carnival’s Fathom cruise line will be the beneficiaries of that policy change.
Cuban state media reported Tuesday that Fidel Castro, the soon-to-be-90-year-old former dictator of the island, spoke before the assembled Communist Party Congress in Havana to warn supporters that his death may soon be near.
A Brazilian federal prosecutor tells Reuters that multiple projects planned for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro are under investigation for being the objects of corruption schemes, another wrench in an increasingly chaotic lead-up to the opening ceremonies in August.
President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil is halfway through the process of being impeached, accused of borrowing money to misrepresent the state of her nation’s economy to outsiders. In remarks Tuesday, she once again rejected the claims against her, instead alleging that her impeachment is fueled by “a great amount of prejudice against women.”
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez described President Barack Obama’s visit to the island in March as an “attack… on our history, our culture, and our symbols” at an assembly of nationwide Communist Party leaders on Monday.
Carnival Cruises has agreed to rescind its policy of not selling tickets for its newly-announced Cuba cruises to U.S. citizens born in Cuba. Should Cuba ban these individuals from docking, Carnival has promised to delay the program’s maiden voyage. This represents a change in policy following a civil rights lawsuit filed against the corporation.
President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil has come out swinging against the legislature’s move to impeach her for misrepresenting the state of the Brazilian economy, proclaiming the constitutional impeachment process an “injustice” and claiming impeachment is a tool of the nation’s “coup supporters.”
Brazil’s political turmoil continues two days after the lower chamber of the national legislature voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff. A startling poll shows that the overwhelming public support for her impeachment is not antagonism limited to Rousseff, however, but to all leftists in power, as another poll shows strong support for impeaching her vice president, as well.
With Brazil spiraling into political chaos and getting hit by a severe economic downturn, it’s easy to forget that Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Summer Olympics in only four months.
Brazilians danced in the streets, chanting and even burning their president in effigy on Sunday to celebrate the House of Representatives’ vote to impeach leftist head of state Dilma Rousseff.
PORTOVIEJO, Ecuador (AFP)—The most powerful earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades has killed 272 people—a toll that will ‘certainly’ rise, President Rafael Correa said as overwhelmed rescuers Monday struggled to pull survivors from piles of debris. Note: since the publication
Carnival Cruises is facing legal action for enacting a ban on American citizens born in Cuba from purchasing tickets to their debuting voyage around the island of Cuba, a restriction which a court may find violates the 1964 U.S. Civil Rights Act.
Thousands of Cuban nationals who managed to escape the island and reach Central America are now stranded in Costa Rica and Panama, blocked by the leftist government in Nicaragua from moving north towards America but unable to stay where they are.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s attempt to have the Supreme Court throw out an impeachment attempt in the nation’s Congress has failed, and now the legislature will vote on whether to impeach her at 2:00PM Sunday Brasilia time.
Returning from a week-long research trip to South America, Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC) tells Breitbart News that intelligence officials in multiple countries have reason to believe that drug trafficking organizations are looking to work with terrorists groups like Hezbollah, but lack the technology to catch illegal money transfers as they happen.
Brazil’s congressional impeachment committee has voted to send a vote to impeach President Dilma Rousseff to the House of Representatives’ floor, placing her one step closer to being ousted. The leftist Rousseff’s Workers’ Party is planning rallies in her favor, with police anticipating the nation’s capital will attract thousands of protests for and against the president.
Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori, has swept Peru’s presidential elections Sunday with 39.46 percent of the vote. In a run-off vote, she will face economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, whom she defeated by a solid 15 percentage points.
Former President of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner may be indicted in a sprawling money laundering case should the judge presiding accept federal prosecutor Guillermo Marijuan’s request to bring her into the investigation. Kirchner will be testifying regarding a separate case on Wednesday.
Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolás Maduro has decreed that government workers not come to work on Fridays for the next two months to conserve electricity as the nation battles a drought that has left the nation’s largest dam nearly empty. Maduro also called for women to stop using hair dryers.
Late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez poured over seven million euros into the creation of a political party in Spain run by “natural allies of the Bolivarian revolution,” according to a 2008 document appropriating Venezuelan funds to the leftist professors who would become the leaders of Podemos, now Spain’s largest third party.
The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking to transfer $510 million in money allocated to fighting the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in west Africa to preventing a similar outbreak of Zika in the United States, officials announced Wednesday.
“These sorts of visits bring a lot of collateral damage,” Cuban pro-democracy activist Marta Beatriz Roque lamented in anticipation of President Barack Obama’s trip to the island. With the visit complete, new data has emerged clarifying exactly how much collateral damage. 498 arrests occurred during President Obama’s visit, adding to a total of 1416 in March.
An estimated 250,000 Colombians took to the streets of 22 cities on Saturday to demand President Juan Manuel Santos cease negotiations with the dreaded FARC terrorist group, as well as cancel plans for similar negotiations with the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla.
Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, is soon to face an impeachment vote in the nation’s House of Representatives, putting Brazil one step closer to her ouster. Possibly even more destabilizing for the country is one attorney’s efforts to force the legislature to impeach Vice President Michel Temer, as well, as Temer prepares to potentially become head of state.
The chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, Rep. Robert Pittenger, is on a week-long trip to South America to investigate first-hand the potential of the region to fund a variety of terrorist groups that could use the money to attack America.
A senior Iranian official has announced plans to deploy warships to “friendly states” in Latin America, by which he means a number of nations hostile to the United States.
