White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced during Monday’s press briefing that President Donald Trump will travel to Peru and Colombia in April.
Pro-socialist vandals targeted the walls of Venezuela’s Cumaná Cathedral and its surroundings with threatening anti-Catholic messages Tuesday night, referring to Cumaná’s archbishop as “Monsignor Satan” after dictator Nicolás Maduro targeted the clergyman in a television broadcast this week.
In a Spanish-language opinion piece in one of the nation’s largest newspapers, Chinese Ambassador to Argentina Yang Wanming urged Latin American nations to increase trade ties to China, promoting Beijing’s “One Belt One Road” project and warning the Communist Party will begin a “greater push” to conquer trade in the hemisphere.
In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, Democrats and left-wing media sought to portray Donald Trump as the anti-Latino candidate. However, his record in office speaks otherwise. Since his inauguration in January, the Trump administration has consistently sought to promote
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.
An investigation by Spain’s most-circulated newspaper has revealed “a tale of illegal immigration, money laundering, and arms and drug trafficking, as well as tobacco smuggling” which is overwhelming the Mediterranean country.
The Supreme Court of Venezuela granted opposition leader Leopoldo López house arrest – freeing him from the notorious Ramo Verde military prison – this weekend on medical grounds. Following his release, wife Lilian Tintori accused prison officials of torturing López and denying him medical care.
Guatemalan Raúl Arturo Contreras, known as “dead” or “skeleton” in his country’s slang, will soon be a free man after serving 18 months and paying a $100 fine for being part of cocaine trafficking network linked to Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah.
The sudden closure of the U.S. “wet foot, dry foot” policy that allowed Cuban migrants to remain in the United States if they reached the mainland has stranded many Cubans in South America and in Central America.
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.
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.”
A Colombian national pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine by illegally trafficking the drug into the U.S. through maritime shipments.
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.
A transgender couple became the first to have their own child when a transgender man gave birth to a baby boy.
The Obama administration has promoted the use of deportations to resolve a growing refugee crisis in Colombia, Ecuador, and Central America, as more and more Cubans flee the human rights violations and deplorable economic conditions of their native land, emboldened by Obama’s “normalization” process with Cuba.
Hundreds of Venezuelan women from the western state of Táchira crossed the border into Colombia illegally, demanding the ability to buy food. Once there, the women purchased basic goods like flour and milk and marched home.
Iran’s Lebanese terrorist proxy, Hezbollah, finds itself in dire financial straits after years of sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies, a top U.S. Department of Treasury official told lawmakers this week.
The situation in Venezuela has been steadily declining in the past couple of years, but in the past few weeks, it has become so dire and disturbing that scenes coming out of the socialist country are said to mirror the apocalypse.
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.
One of two remaining holdouts against Zika on the Western Hemisphere has confirmed its first locally acquired case of the enigmatic virus. The government of Chile has confirmed that a Zika patient contracted the disease from a sexual partner who had been to Haiti.
San Francisco health officials confirmed a case of the rapidly spreading Zika virus in their city on Thursday, the second case in the Bay area this week.
A Brazilian professor of law has died from Zika complications.
The population of South American immigrants living in the U.S. has grown more than 32 times over the level it was at in the 1960s, according to a Migration Policy Institute analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that at least two pregnant women who tested positive for the Zika virus chose to abort their babies.
The Florida Department of Health has confirmed that three pregnant women have Zika after the World Health Organization (WHO) warned the Zika outbreak could get worse before it gets better.
Colombian health officials announced a “probable” microcephaly case in an aborted fetus and discovered the Zika virus in the amniotic fluid.
A Colombian businessman has fully recovered from the Zika virus after doctors diagnosed him in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Venezuelan opposition deputy José Manuel Olivares claims the country has under-reported cases of the Zika virus and the country lacks necessary medical supplies to properly combat the outbreak sweeping the region.
Last fall, the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) published an internal memo that expressed concern that Brazilian authorities would not properly clean the water in Rio de Janeiro before the 2016 Summer Olympics.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked people not to donate blood if they recently traveled to countries affected by the Zika outbreak.
The Brazilian Health Ministry has confirmed that the Zika virus has caused “most” of the microcephaly cases recorded following its discovery in the country.
Tennis star Rafael Nadal told the media the recent Zika outbreak in Brazil does not worry him as he prepares for the Rio Open.
Doctors have found the Zika virus in areas of the body protected from the immune system, such as seminal fluid, fetal brain tissue, and the placenta.
Since October, doctors have discovered over 7,000 Zika cases on Cape Verde, an island located off the coast of Senegal.
An Australian doctor with the Olympic team believes the Rio water poses more of a threat towards the athletes than the Zika virus.
Doctors have found the Zika virus in placentas of two U.S. women who contracted the virus. They suffered miscarriages after they returned to the states.
A doctor in Brazil has discovered numerous microcephaly cases that predate the Zika outbreak.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced that doctors had confirmed the presence of Zika virus in the tissue of infants who died from microcephaly, a rare birth defect.
Yale University School of Public Health Professor Albert Ko claims the cases of microcephaly in Brazil are just the start of concerns about birth defects linked to the Zika virus.
The National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) might pull out of the Summer Olympics due to the Zika outbreak in Brazil.
