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Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro suffered a major defeat on Wednesday after the Colombian Congress voted to shelve his controversial leftist healthcare reform bill, with nine members of the corresponding Senate commission voting in favor and five against.

A report in Colombian media accused Venezuela of using the brutal Tren de Aragua gang to persecute dissidents abroad.

Venezuelans burned an effigy representing socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and other “opposition” collaborationist figures on Easter.

Argentine President Javier Milei asserted in an interview on Sunday that he “would not have any problem” imposing diplomatic sanctions against Venezuela’s socialist regime, suggesting he would be willing to convince other countries to support similar measures.

Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro expelled Argentine diplomatic personnel from the country in response to statements by Argentine counterpart Javier Milei.

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro threatened to cut ties with Israel if it does not comply with a U.N. Security Council ceasefire demand.

The government of Argentina condemned the socialist regime of Venezuela on Tuesday evening for cutting the power and water supply to the Argentine ambassador’s official residence in Caracas.

Venezuela’s socialist regime approved a law on Thursday to “formally” create a new state out of two-thirds of neighboring Guyana.

The United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (FFMV) warned on Wednesday that the socialist Maduro regime is enacting a “more violent” repression against dissidents ahead of the upcoming July 28 sham presidential election.

Venezuela Attorney General Tarek William Saab claimed Tuesday that the Tren de Aragua criminal organization is a “myth.”

Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro announced plans this week to assemble a Constituent Assembly to rewrite the nation’s constitution, allowing him to insert into the new constitution leftist reforms his government has failed to pass through Congress.

Venezuelan opposition frontrunner candidate María Corina Machado is facing increased pressure from her alleged allies to choose a replacement who can run against socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro in the upcoming July sham presidential election, according to a report published by Reuters on Thursday.

Former Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez marked three years as a political prisoner of the current Bolivian socialist government on Wednesday, releasing a public letter in which she reaffirmed her innocence and demanded the Bolivian courts free her.

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “clown” and “harmful” to his people.

Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras recently sent a team of production specialists to Venezuela at the request of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, Bloomberg reported over the weekend.

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson secretly traveled to Venezuela in February to meet with socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, the British newspaper the Sunday Times reported over the weekend.

Biden diplomat Brian Nichols said incentives granted to Venezuela’s socialist regime were “not sufficient” to convince it to have an election.

Chilean media reported on Wednesday that one of the fugitive main suspects in the killing of Venezuelan dissident Ronald Ojeda is not just linked to the Tren de Aragua (Aragua Train) criminal organization, but worked for the Venezuelan government in 2015.

More than 50,000 Colombians peacefully protested against socialist President Gustavo Petro and his policies on Wednesday.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) warned that Iran has expanded its influence in Venezuela to such a degree that it is a threat to America.

Venezuela’s National Electoral Center (CNE), controlled entirely by the ruling socialist regime, announced on Tuesday that the South American country will hold its next sham presidential election on July 28 — the date of late dictator Hugo Chávez’s birthday.

Chile said the Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan criminal organization, was involved in the killing of Venezuelan dissident Ronald Ojeda.

Ronald Ojeda, a Venezuelan dissident living in Chile wanted by the socialist Maduro regime, was found dead and buried over the weekend after being reportedly kidnapped on February 21.

Iran vowed to strengthen cooperation with Bolivia following a meeting this weekend between Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Bolivian socialist President Luis Arce, his “friend.”

Officials overseeing the Brazilian Amazon registered almost 3,000 fires during February, marking a new record for the South American country, according to data released by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE).

The “Bolivarian Revolution” of Venezuela is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its rise to power.

Venezuela’s socialist regime signed an agreement on Wednesday with several collaborationist groups to work toward setting a date for a “free and fair” presidential election in 2024.

The recent stream of antisemitic comments issued by radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the Brazilian government’s condemnations of Israel are fueling fear of possible “lone-wolf” jihadist attacks, the Argentine news agency Infobae reported on Monday.

Widespread reports in American and Venezuelan media, beginning with allegations in the Wall Street Journal on February 22 and recently reported by the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional on Sunday, suggest the socialist regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro has stopped accepting Venezuelans deported from the United States.

The United States reportedly hopes that Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will use his “influence” to help Venezuela.

Russia will increase cooperation on “peaceful nuclear energy” with Venezuela, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Havana on Monday, kicking off a tour of Latin America by condemning the United States for its “blackmail, ultimatums, threats” against Russia and Cuba.

Economy Minister Luis “Toto” Caputo announced over the weekend that Argentina registered a roughly $620 million financial surplus in January, the first positive financial result of its kind experienced by the South American country in 12 years.

The government of Israel declared Brazil’s far-left President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva persona non grata on Monday in response to comments in which Lula compared Israel’s self-defense operations against Hamas to the Holocaust.

Brazilian radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva condemned Israel on Thursday, accusing the country of killing “women and children” in its self-defense operations against the jihadist terrorist organization Hamas.

Venezuela expelled the staff of the United Nations human rights office stationed in Caracas on Thursday, ordering it to shut down operations.