Latin America

Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, a long-suspected drug lord actively wanted by U.S. authorities, on Wednesday evening accused Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele of being an “imperial puppy and lackey.”

Drug trafficking generated more than $8.2 billion in Venezuela in 2024, according to a report published by the non-government organization Transparencia Venezuela on Wednesday.

Brazilian Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro, announced on Tuesday that he will seek political asylum in the United States.

American actor Kevin Costner on Monday met with the figurehead “president” of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel in Havana, the office of the Cuban presidency announced.

Dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro claimed his regime “will not rest” until it rescues the Venezuelans “kidnapped” by El Salvador.

Left-wing actress Mia Farrow jumped to her social media Monday to spread conspiracy theories about the Trump administration’s deportations of violent Tren de Aragua gang bangers to El Salvador.

Conservative former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday stated that he has no intention of fleeing from the country to avoid a possible arrest ordered by the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF).

Venezuela’s socialist regime on Sunday condemned President Donald Trump’s use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport suspected members of the Tren de Aragua terrorist organization, comparing it to “slavery” and “Nazi concentration camps.”

Venezuela will resume accepting U.S. deportation flights on Friday — days after socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro suspended them.

San Diego FC, a member franchise of Major League Soccer (MLS), plans to dramatically increase its security apparatus to counter anti-gay chants made famous by Mexican soccer fans.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on Wednesday announced the arrest of a former intelligence member of Cuba’s communist Castro regime who fraudulently obtained a U.S. green card.

A missing University of Pittsburgh college student’s hometown sheriff has named a person of interest in the case five days into a search for the young woman.

Cuban government offices in the city of Caibarién are only receiving individuals who “bring their own electricity.”

Radical leftist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Tuesday demanded President Donald Trump stop “shouting” and speak “respectfully” to him, adding he is “not of ugly faces.”

The number of illegal U.S.-bound migrants passing through the dangerous Darién jungle plummeted by nearly 99 percent during the month of February 2025 when compared to February 2024, Panama’s Migrant Authority revealed this week.

Nicolás Maduro said his regime will not accept further deportation flights of Venezuelan deportees after President Donald Trump cancelled a Biden-era oil license.

Nicaragua received $373.5 million worth of remittances originating from the United States in January 2025, the local newspaper La Prensa reported Monday.

Twenty-year-old University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki who went missing on Thursday while vacationing in the Dominican Republic on spring break possibly died by drowning, authorities say.

A Chilean court in the northern province of Arica on Thursday issued prison sentences of roughly 560 years against 34 members of Los Gallegos, a local “armed wing” of the Tren de Aragua terrorist organization.

President of Argentina Javier Milei reportedly plans to have the South American nation sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Israel.

Guyana announced on Thursday that it issued an urgent request to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to stop neighboring Venezuela from holding a sham election for governor of “Guayana Esequiba,” a purported new state that the socialist regime intends to carve out in the contested Essequibo region.

Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro threatened on Wednesday to take “all necessary measures” to stop American oil company ExxonMobil’s operations in the Essequibo region, historically contested by Venezuela and Guyana.

President of Panama José Raúl Mulino on Wednesday morning accused President Donald Trump of “lying again” after Trump reiterated his call to take back control of the Panama Canal in a speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night.

Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison Holdings Limited announced Tuesday asset manager BlackRock has agreed to buy a majority stake of its subsidiary that operates two ports at the Panama Canal for $23 billion.

USMCA compliant cars may get a lower tariff rate or be exempted altogether, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said in an interview Wednesday.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained Rafael Jose Quero Silva, a Venezuelan ex-military official living in the U.S. accused of repressing and torturing students protesting against socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, El Nuevo Herald reported on Sunday.

President Donald Trump said on Monday that he would consider signing a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with President Javier Milei of Argentina.

Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Minister Alexandre de Moraes over the weekend requested that Brazil’s Attorney General evaluate seizing Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro’s passport for allegedly committing “crimes against sovereignty” and criticizing the STF alongside U.S. lawmakers, local outlets reported.

Tariffs on Mexico’s exports to the U.S. are poised to hit at a particularly difficult time for the country’s factories. Mexico’s manufacturing sector contracted at its fastest pace in five months in February, as declining U.S. demand and a steep

Actress Zoe Saldana apologized at the Academy Awards on Sunday, saying, “I’m very, very sorry that many Mexicans felt offended” by Netflix’s trans drug cartel musical, “Emilia Pérez.”

Mexican drug cartels are reportedly in fear and going into hiding, and Mexican law enforcement officials have ramped up arrests and drug busts in response to the Trump administration threatening to hit the country with tariffs.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado denounced on Thursday that unknown individuals attempted to break into her home in Caracas a day after she participated in an interview with Donald Trump Jr.

Nicaragua on Thursday announced its withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council in response to a recently published report by a group of U.N. experts calling for international action against the worsening repression led by dictator Daniel Ortega and his wife and “co-president” Rosario Murillo.

Attorney General of Panama Luis Carlos Gómez said on Wednesday that a decades-long contract awarded to Panama Ports Company (PPC), a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Hutchison Port Holdings, to operate two ports in the Panama Canal is “unconstitutional,” local outlets reported.

President Donald Trump has confirmed that his proposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada will begin on March 4, with an “additional 10 percent tariff” likely to be charged to China.