Latin America

Traders have rebranded more than $1 billion worth of Venezuelan oil shipments to China as Brazilian crude over the past year to circumvent U.S. oil sanctions, Reuters reported on Monday.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro arrived in Beijing on Monday to meet with Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping, seeking to join China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), according to Columbia’s presidential website.

Peruvians are enthusiastically celebrating the election on Thursday of Pope Leo XIV as the 267th Bishop of Rome.

Conservative former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro, still recovering from a delicate 12-hour surgery, participated in a peaceful rally on Wednesday in Brasília calling for amnesty for the January 8 riot participants.

Argentine President Javier Milei celebrated the election of Pope Leo XIV on Thursday by sharing an image on social media, apparently generated by artificial intelligence, of a lion in papal regalia.

The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security held a hearing on Tuesday to investigate reports that China is constructing four powerful signals intelligence (SIGINT) facilities in Cuba to spy on Americans.

Michelada Fest 2025, scheduled to kick off this summer in Chicago, announced it is canceling the music festival — known for its Latin music, culture, and abundance of micheladas — due to “uncertainty” around the “shifting political climate.”

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Tuesday that the five Venezuelan dissidents trapped in the shutdown Argentine embassy in Caracas for 14 months were rescued in a “precise operation” and are now on U.S. soil.

Former Foreign Minister of Colombia Álvaro Leyva revealed in a letter published on Tuesday that far-left President Gustavo Petro refused to speak to Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping for the entirety of a lavish banquet on his official visit to Beijing in 2023 — an incident Leyva claimed as evidence of Petro’s drug addiction problems.

A Chinese secret police station in Quito appears to continue operating in Ecuador despite having been “shut down” in May 2024, several outlets reported this week.

Dozens of Haitians on Sunday marched through the streets of Port-au-Prince to demand the resignation of Interim Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé and the Transitional Presidential Council amid an escalation of gang violence.

Tehran welcomed the deputy science minister of Venezuela on Sunday for a meeting to discuss how to “enhance cooperation between the two countries in the nuclear industry,” the Iranian regime news agency Mehr reported.

Conservative former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro was discharged on Sunday after spending three weeks recovering from a complex 12-hour surgery.

Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro Civil Police revealed on Sunday it thwarted a bomb attack planned against American pop star Lady Gaga’s free weekend concert on Copacabana Beach.

A 7.4 earthquake off the coast of South America sent Chile’s residents scrambling for high ground after officials issued a tsunami warning that was later rescinded.

Narciso Amador Fernández Ramírez, a known propagandist of Cuba’s communist Castro regime, is allegedly living in the United States thanks to the Biden-era “Humanitarian Parole” program, Cuban-American journalist Mario Pentón reported on Thursday.

Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro on Thursday vowed to “rescue” the two-year-old Venezuelan girl allegedly “kidnapped” by the U.S. as well as the 252 members of the Tren de Aragua deported to El Salvador, asserting to migrants that “the real dream is Venezuelan.”

Cuban “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel celebrated the communist holiday May Day on Thursday sporting a scarf featuring Palestinians flags.

The socialist regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro rejected claims made by far-left Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday that Colombian drug trafficker Jobanis de Jesús Ávila Villadiego has formed an alliance with the National Liberation Army (ELN) Marxist terror group in Venezuelan territory.

Communist dictator of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega on Wednesday accused President Donald Trump of committing “crimes against humanity” by deporting illegal migrants in the U.S. and lashed out against Trump’s tariff policies.

Héctor Alejandro Hernández Morales, a senior Cuban regime official identified as the once bodyguard and “trusted man” of both late communist dictator Fidel Castro and his brother and successor Raúl Castro, is presently living in Florida aspiring to obtain U.S. resident status, Cuba-focused outlets reported.

Officials from the Trump administration have reportedly notified Congress they plan to designate Haitian gangs as foreign terrorist organizations, a move that would authorize sanctions for any entity or corporation that provides material support for the gangsters.

Cuba on Tuesday once again arrested José Daniel Ferrer, leader of the largest dissident organization in the country, the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), three months after his release.

The government of Argentine President Javier Milei on Monday declassified over 1,850 official documents detailing the arrival of Nazi German officials to Argentina and their actions in the South American nation following World War II.

Nicolás Maduro said his regime will use the upcoming “May Day” Marxist holiday to demand the “liberation” of a two-year-old Venezuelan girl allegedly “kidnapped” by the U.S. — whose illegal alien parents are Tren de Aragua members — and the release of 252 Venezuelan illegals who also belong to the foreign terrorist organization and were deported from the U.S. to El Salvador.

Colombian Interior Minister Armando Benedetti revealed in an interview on Sunday that he suffers from drug and alcohol addiction, asserting, “I wouldn’t want to be addicted, but I am.”

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro proclaimed over the weekend that he wishes to “revive” Gran Colombia, a short-lived 18th century nation that encompassed much of northern South America and neighboring Panama in Central America.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expressed outrage after the U.S. “altered” the sex on a visa issued to transgender lawmaker Erika Hilton.

Former Foreign Minister of Colombia Álvaro Leyva claimed on Wednesday that far-left President Gustavo Petro suffers from drug addiction in an explosive letter highly critical of Petro and key members of his inner circle.

Brazil’s top court, the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), subpoenaed conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday while he is still recovering from an emergency surgery at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the DF Star Hospital in Brasília in relation to charges of allegedly staging a coup.

The FBI says Venezuelan government officials may be using Tren de Aragua gang members, according to a Fox News report.

A poll found that former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro — who is banned from running for office — would defeat Lula da Silva in a hypothetical matchup.

President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele repeated his offer to Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday to send 252 Venezuelans deported from the U.S. back to Venezuela in exchange for Maduro releasing 252 of his political prisoners.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele took to social media to roast Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL), one of the Democrat lawmakers who has taken time off his job to travel to El Salvador to advocate for the release of deported illegal migrants.

Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, never visited his birthplace Argentina in the 12 years of his papacy.