Latin America

Panama will reportedly start imposing a fine of up to $5,000 on illegal migrants caught crossing through the Darién Gap jungle trail, President José Raúl Mulino announced on Thursday.

Argentine Ambassador to China Marcelo Suarez Salvia claimed to China’s state-run newspaper Global Times on Thursday that the government of President Javier Milei is “willing” to continue engaging with China despite Milei’s staunch opposition to communism.

Venezuela’s socialist regime recalled its ambassador to Brazil and threatened Colombia’s Foreign Minister Luis Murillo on Wednesday, further straining its relationship with two of its most sympathetic leftist neighbors.

President of Argentina Javier Milei fired Foreign Minister Diana Mondino after she voted at the U.N. in favor of lifting the Cuban “embargo”

Bolivia’s socialist former president Evo Morales, wanted on charges of pedophilia, claimed on Tuesday that he is using vehicles borrowed from the Venezuelan socialist regime to block Bolivia’s major roads, starving out the populace.

A joint Venezuelan journalistic investigation published on Monday across several local outlets revealed how socialist regime officials used social media to publicly hunt dissidents and brand them “enemies” and “terrorists” in the wake of the fraudulent July 28 presidential election.

Bolivia has suffered more than $1.35 billion in losses to its economy due to ongoing road blockades led by loyalists of socialist former president and suspected pedophile Evo Morales, Rural Development Minister Juan Yamil told reporters on Tuesday.

Security Minister of Argentina Patricia Bullrich announced over the weekend that authorities identified a Lebanese man named Hussein Ahmad Karaki as the chief of the Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah in Latin America.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian vowed on Thursday to fight Western nations and “Zionism” alongside Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.

The Venezuelan socialist regime accused Brazil of engaging in an “aggression” by blocking its admission into the BRICS anti-U.S. bloc.

A United Nations helicopter was hit by several rounds of gunfire while flying over Haiti on Thursday, forcing the chopper to land in the capital of Port-au-Prince.

Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro arrived in Kazan, Russia, on Tuesday to participate in the 16th annual summit of the BRICS anti-U.S. bloc.

Israeli Ambassador to Costa Rica Mijal Gur-Aryeh denounced on Monday that Hezbollah and other Iranian radical groups have established bases in Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

The United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) said on Tuesday that the situation in the impoverished and violence-torn nation has “regrettably worsened” because ambitious gangs are now attacking territory they do not control yet, rather than merely terrorizing people on the turf they already rule.

Former One Direction member Liam Payne had “pink cocaine” — among other drugs — in his system before he jumped to his death from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, last week, an initial toxicology report found, according to multiple reports.

Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, the Peruvian theologian widely regarded as the father of Liberation Theology, passed away Tuesday, leaving behind mixed legacy of faith, social justice, and Marxism.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the radical leftist President of Brazil, is against Venezuela’s prospective entry into the BRICS bloc, several Brazilian outlets reported on Monday.

Argentina announced the dissolution of the Federal Administration of Public Income (AFIP), Argentina’s bloated revenue and customs service.

The figurehead president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, warned on Sunday that the communist Castro regime will “not tolerate” protests after the complete collapse of the nation’s ailing power grid over the weekend.

The anti-American BRICS coalition, led this year by rotating president Russia, will convene its heads of state on Tuesday for a summit expected to focus heavily on building a dollar-free parallel economic system, the ongoing conflict in Gaza, and what to do with the dozens of countries that want to be members.

Radical leftist president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will not travel to Russia to attend this week’s BRICS summit after suffering a head injury on Saturday.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro congratulated a Brazilian-American woman on Sunday who asked former President Donald Trump to protect America from the fate of her native country, stating in an online post, “this struggle is all of ours.”

Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello announced on Thursday the arrest of four American citizens accused by the socialist regime of “hacking” Venezuelan infrastructure and “plotting” to overthrow dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Argentina ran a trade surplus in September for the tenth month in a row under libertarian President Javier Milei.

Officials from the Metropolitan Police of Bogotá, Colombia, announced on Wednesday the capture of five members of the Tren de Aragua transnational criminal organization.

Bolivian police announced that a woman allegedly raped as a child by socialist former President Evo Morales is missing.

Maya Henry, the ex-fiancé of former One Direction member Liam Payne — who died on Wednesday at the age of 31 after apparently jumping from a third story balcony — released a book on Wednesday that reportedly included a fictionalized account detailing her “painful” experience with abortion, which she says she was coerced into having. Meanwhile, sources say Payne was “extremely overwhelmed” by legal issues involving Henry before his untimely death.

Amir Rockman, Israeli Consul to Costa Rica, said in an interview on Tuesday that his government has reason to believe that Iranian-linked terrorist groups are freely operating in Nicaragua, a country that recently broke ties with Israel.

The United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (FFMV) accused the socialist regime on Tuesday of committing crimes against humanity during the violent crackdown following the fraudulent July presidential election.

The World Bank published a study on Sunday that found 26 of the world’s poorest nations — including Afghanistan, Yemen, Ethiopia, and North Korea — are “in deeper debt than at any other time since 2006.”

Bolivian socialist former president Evo Morales threatened this weekend to order his loyalists to blockade the nation’s roads, causing daily multimillion-dollar losses to the country’s economy, should he be arrested as part of an ongoing probe into accusations of human trafficking and statutory rape.

Communist dictator Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanuayu on Monday evening, calling him “Hitler” and accusing him of being the “son of the devil” days after he had the country break diplomatic ties with Israel.

The socialist dictatorship of Venezuela has sent 14 tons of food, medicine, and other humanitarian aid to Lebanon as a gesture against Israel’s self-defense operations following the October 7, 2023, Hamas slaughter.

Panama’s Migrant Authority registered a surge of U.S.-bound migrants passing through the Darién Gap jungle trail in September, largely driven by Venezuelans fleeing from their country in the wake of the fraudulent July 28 sham presidential election, the Associated Press (AP) reported over the weekend.

A local newspaper revealed that socialist Venezuela is feeding political prisoners arrested after the nation’s sham election this summer rotten food and contaminated water, greatly endangering their health.