Latin America - Page 12

Venezuela’s socialist regime announced this week the launching of a reality television show called M Factor, where local musicians will compete to have their songs become part of dictator Nicolás Maduro’s official soundtrack for the upcoming sham presidential election.

Argentine President Javier Milei arrived in Miami, Florida, on Wednesday for a visit that will see him receive an award from a prominent Jewish organization and meet privately with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in Austin, Texas, on Friday.

Colombia’s capital city, Bogotá, will begin rolling water rationing on Thursday for at least a year, Mayor Carlos Fernando Galán announced.

Tareck El Aissami, former Venezuelan oil minister, has resurfaced in handcuffs, charged with treason, money laundering, and corruption.

Foreign Minister Yvan Gil of Venezuela claimed on Monday that the Tren de Aragua transnational criminal organization does not exist.

El Salvador will offer 5,000 free passports to “highly skilled” foreign scientists, engineers, doctors, artists, and philosophers.

Brazilian “anti-fake news crusader” Alexandre de Moraes has opened an inquiry into Elon Musk and Twitter for defying censorship orders.

The government of Guyana condemned neighboring Venezuela on Wednesday for having passed a law that “creates” a new state out of two-thirds of Guyana’s territory in an effort to annex the historically contested Essequibo region.

The gangs rampaging across Haiti ransacked the National Library in the capital city of Port-au-Prince on Wednesday. Anguished library director Dangelo Neard said some rare documents were stored in the library, so the gang attack put Haiti’s history at risk.

Brazilian authorities have registered 1,020 deaths from dengue in 2024 to date, nearly surpassing 2023’s year-long record.

Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro suffered a major defeat on Wednesday after the Colombian Congress voted to shelve his controversial leftist healthcare reform bill, with nine members of the corresponding Senate commission voting in favor and five against.

The criminal terrorist organization known as Cartel Del Noreste, a faction of Los Zetas, is behind the mass kidnappings of victims in a Mexican border state, sources revealed to Breitbart Texas. However, instead of limiting itself to people who have ties or debts to trafficking, the cartel adopted the tactic of taking entire families hostage.

Argentina is considering a formal inspection of a Chinese “space station” on Argentine territory built during a previous socialist presidency, the government confirmed on Tuesday.

More than 53,000 people have fled Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from March 8 to 27, 2024, as a result of rampant gang violence.

“Our nation has to stand for what it believes,” Pastor Jon Britton Hancock, wanted in Nicaragua for preaching, told Breitbart News on Tuesday.

The Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) terrorist organization announced this weekend the creation of a unit within the group to carry out criminal activities across four Colombian regions.

A report in Colombian media accused Venezuela of using the brutal Tren de Aragua gang to persecute dissidents abroad.

CBS News’s 60 Minutes ran a segment on Sunday that sought to blame the “Havana Syndrome” illnesses, which largely occurred during the Trump administration, on Russian espionage, possibly involving sonic weapons.

Venezuelans burned an effigy representing socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and other “opposition” collaborationist figures on Easter.

Canada sent 70 troops to Jamaica to train Caribbean forces for a prospective U.N.-authorized military intervention in Haiti.

Argentine President Javier Milei asserted in an interview on Sunday that he “would not have any problem” imposing diplomatic sanctions against Venezuela’s socialist regime, suggesting he would be willing to convince other countries to support similar measures.

Cuba reportedly banned Christians from celebrating traditional Catholic Holy Week processions across several regions of the country.

French President Emmanuel Macron spent much of the week touring the Amazon Rainforest alongside his Brazilian counterpart, radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The Argentine Navy intercepted and boarded an illegal Chinese fishing vessel caught 12 miles inside the nation’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), local media reported Wednesday.

Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro expelled Argentine diplomatic personnel from the country in response to statements by Argentine counterpart Javier Milei.

The communist regime in Nicaragua announced the conviction of 11 pastors associated with the Evangelical Mountain Gateway ministry and humanitarian organization, this week on dubious and unspecified charges of “money laundering,” sentencing the accused to between 12 and 15 years in prison.

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro threatened to cut ties with Israel if it does not comply with a U.N. Security Council ceasefire demand.

The government of Argentina condemned the socialist regime of Venezuela on Tuesday evening for cutting the power and water supply to the Argentine ambassador’s official residence in Caracas.

The Biden White House criticized Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday for barring the leading opposition candidate from his country’s upcoming elections — after Democrats tried to do the same to Donald Trump.

Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) did not allow the Venezuelan Unitary Platform opposition coalition to register the candidacy of Corina Yoris for the upcoming July presidential election.

Nicaragua authorized the establishment of a Russian-built and operated “Instruction Center” for the “reengineering” of the Nicaraguan police.

Police authorities found the mayor of San Vicente, Ecuador, Brigitte García shot dead on Sunday alongside her communications director, Jairo Loor.

International humanitarian experts said on Friday that Haiti’s gang war has pushed food insecurity to record levels.

El Salvador announced Friday that it initiated the process to gain approval from the IAEA to develop and use nuclear energy.

A fistfight that included beer-throwing, beer-drinking, and at least five people broke out among U.S. and Mexican soccer fans at the CONCACAF Nations League final at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Sunday night.

Vice President Kamala Harris had an embarrassing fumble during a Friday visit to Puerto Rico, where she was spotted clapping along to a protest song against her before an aide translated the lyrics.