Latin America

The U.S. Department of Justice announced the unsealing of a criminal indictment against a sitting Mexican governor and his closest allies. The case is historic in nature since it is the first time that a sitting Mexican governor has been named in a cartel-connected criminal case.

Anti-socialist Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado confirmed she intends to run for president in an eventual free and fair election.

A poll released on Tuesday found that incumbent President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would trail his top challenger, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, by 0.3 percent in a runoff between them, without enough support in the first round of voting to prevent a runoff.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Marxist terrorist group unleashed a deadly wave of 31 different terrorist attacks over the weekend — including a deadly highway bomb blast on Saturday that killed 21 civilians in what is now being described as the worst terrorist attack Colombia has suffered in decades.

Radio Programas del Perú (RPP) on Monday denounced the existence of a network trafficking Peruvian men to the front lines of the Russian invasion of Ukraine with false work promises.

The United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) announced on Sunday that U.S. forces carried out a “lethal kinetic strike” against a drug-trafficking vessel in Eastern Pacific waters, killing three male narco-terrorists.

A large crowd of Cuban-Americans and supporters – according to Univisión, in the thousands – gathered on Sunday in Miami, Florida’s Bayside Park for a unique event to pray for divine intervention to end communism in Cuba.

“Acting President” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez condemned Saturday’s apparent assassination attempt against President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

The Administrator of the Panama Canal Authority said Thursday that the ongoing conflict in the Middle East has led to a surge in traffic through the Panama Canal.

Veteran U.S. diplomat John M. Barrett arrived in Caracas on Thursday to serve as the new head of the American embassy in Venezuela as part of President Donald Trump’s three-phase plan towards restoring democracy in the South American country.

The government of Argentine President Javier Milei on Wednesday submitted a bill to Congress aiming to overhaul the nation’s elections — urging the need to “fix a system that is fundamentally flawed” and make it more transparent and less costly.

Piero Corvetto, the head of Peru’s National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), resigned from his position on Tuesday amid the ongoing uncertainty of the April 12 election results.

El Salvador held a mass trial on Tuesday for 486 prisoners, alleged to be members of the infamous Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, who stand accused of 47,000 crimes between them.

Alejandro García del Toro, Deputy Director General in charge of the United States at the Cuban Foreign Ministry, confirmed on Monday that Castro regime officials recently met with U.S. government representatives in Havana.

The head of Peru’s National Election Jury (JNE), a body that evaluates disputes regarding ballots and other vote technicalities, told reporters this weekend that her office expects to be able to offer the nation the complete results of the April 12 election by mid-May.

Miss Universe Puerto Rico has announced its second biological male contestant since 2023 — revealing on Wednesday that transgender model Gabriel Rodríguez Velázquez is among this year’s competitors vying for the crown.

President of Argentina Javier Milei and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday launched the “Isaac Accords,” a new strategic framework aimed at strengthening cooperation between Argentina, Israel and like-minded partners in the Western Hemisphere.

Portuguese Catholic priest and DJ Guilherme Peixoto, also known as Father Guilherme, performed a remixed version of a song by Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny with altered lyrics promoting prayer at a weekend show in Argentina honoring the late Pope Francis.

Two U.S. officials, a top Mexican state law enforcement official, and his bodyguard died over the weekend in a highway crash in Mexico.

A politician in southern Mexico who is listed by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as a fugitive has now been reported missing and is believed to be the victim of a cartel kidnapping.

Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuba’s nonagenarian communist dictator Raúl Castro, said Thursday that her father is actively involved in the “decision-making” of the Cuban regime’s negotiations with the United States.

“Acting president” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday thanked President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for “goodwill” in restoring bilateral ties between their countries.

Chilean conservative President José Antonio Kast announced that Chile will begin deportation flights of illegal migrants on Thursday.

The newspaper USA Today reported on Wednesday, citing anonymous “sources familiar,” that the Pentagon was “quietly ramping up” a plan to attack Cuba — a report that followed similar rumors on Substack.

Lawyers in Peru on Wednesday filed a criminal complaint against conservative presidential candidate Rafael López Aliaga, accusing him of “interfering” with the nation’s elections and demanding his immediate arrest.

Conservative former Mayor of Lima Rafael López Aliaga on Tuesday demanded the annulment of Peru’s yet-to-be-decided presidential elections.

Sandro Castro, the “influencer” grandson of late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, released a new video this week criticizing the worsening shortages of fuel and water in Cuba — two of the many consequences of the disastrous communist regime forcefully imposed by his family.

Human rights activists expressed disgust and outrage this week after photos surfaced of a recently freed Cuban political prisoner suffering from multiple severe medical conditions, including cancer and visible malnutrition.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has identified two cartel-connected groups in the border state of Tamaulipas, as well as three of their main operators. As part of the move, the U.S. government is freezing any related accounts and prohibiting U.S. citizens from doing business with the sanctioned individuals.

American multinational energy corporation Chevron on Monday signed asset swap agreements with Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA to expand oil production in the country’s Orinoco Belt, where the world’s largest accumulation of heavy and extra-heavy crude oil is located.

The U.S. Government publicly identified the main operator behind a cartel propaganda network that benefited one of Mexico’s most violent terrorist organizations. The man claimed to be a human rights activist. Numerous international news outlets routinely quote that individual, further pushing his pro-cartel propaganda.

Jorginho Frello, a Brazilian soccer star, has now publicly expressed regret for claiming that singer Chappell Roan’s personal security yelled at his daughter.

Peru on Tuesday marked the second day without definitive results from Sunday’s presidential election that can confirm which of the candidates will head to the upcoming June runoff.

Miguel Díaz-Canel, the figurehead “President” of Cuba, claimed to NBC that any military attempt from the United States to depose him would be met by Cubans willing to die for the communist regime that has oppressed them for 67 years.

Foreign Minister of Panama Javier Martínez-Acha on Sunday rejected Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz and criticized the Islamic regime’s use of the waterway as a geopolitical tool amid its ongoing conflict with the U.S and Israel.