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The socialist Maduro regime sent a delegation to China seeking investments to reactivate and boost Venezuela’s run-down oil industry.

The communist Castro regime in Cuba has forbidden a local Catholic church to carry out a traditional evening procession.

CARACAS, Venezuela – During his past decade in power, Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has been many things: a human rights criminal, a “worker-president,” a “driver of victories,” and slurs I would rather spare you from reading.

The cast and crew behind the film El Conde (“The Count”), debuting at the Venice International Film Festival this week, said depicting late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a vampire was “necessary” because the “extreme right” was gaining ground around the world.

A survey published this week by the Center for Citizen Studies (CEC) at the Francisco Gavidia University in El Salvador found President Nayib Bukele with an overwhelmingly ample lead towards his reelection next year – despite the country’s Constitution banning him from seeking reelection.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro compared Argentina’s presidential front-runner Javier Milei to Hitler in response to Milei’s condemning socialism.

For 42 years, Maria Angelica Gonzalez believed her son died soon after childbirth, but that all changed after her long-lost son took a DNA test to learn more about his birth family. 

A survey published by the Chilean market research company Cadem on Sunday found that 56 percent of Chileans plan to vote against replacing their nation’s constitution in a December referendum.

Authorities in Spain uncovered 9.5 tons of cocaine hidden in refrigerated banana containers from Ecuador.

Argentine Economy Minister Sergio Massa is in Brazil on Monday to discuss the details of an agreement with radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva that would allow Argentina to pay for Brazilian imports using the Chinese yuan instead of the U.S. dollar, the Argentina state-run Télam news agency reported.

A Haitian gang opened fire on a church protest in Port-au-Prince on Saturday, killing at least seven people. Video showed bodies lying in the streets, plus several people who appeared to have been taken hostage by the gangsters.

Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega has declared the Jesuit religious order illegal and mandated the confiscation of all its assets.

Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro offered Venezuela’s vast oil reserves to the BRICS economic and security bloc on Thursday, hoping to entice the China-led coalition to eventually accept the rogue socialist nation in the group.

Cuban diaspora media outlets, citing military and political experts, suggested this week that agreements between the communist Castro regime and its comrades in the government of Belarus could result in Cuban special forces taking on a significant role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

CARACAS, Venezuela — The administration of American President Joe Biden is holding talks with socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro that could lead to a temporary lifting of oil sanctions in exchange for “free and fair elections” in Venezuela, according to reports published by Bloomberg and Reuters on Wednesday.

The leader of the Argentine Independent Movement for the Retired and Unemployed (MIJD), a leftist protest organization, took responsibility on Tuesday evening for an ongoing wave of looting of supermarkets and stores that began over the weekend.

A delegation of “progressive” Democrats led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) visited Chile, Brazil, and Colombia.

Guatemalan leftist candidate Bernardo Arévalo emerged as the winner of Guatemala’s 2023 presidential runoff election on Sunday, defeating leftist former first lady and first-round front-runner Sandra Torres.

Establishment socialist candidate Luisa González and 35-year-old business heir Daniel Noboa will go to a second runoff election set for October following the general presidential election in Ecuador on Sunday – a vote tainted by widespread political violence and cybercrime.

A shootout in Durán, Ecuador, interrupted a campaign rally for presidential candidate Daniel Noboa on Thursday.

NFL analyst Ross Tucker was blasted on social media for saying the NFL needed to save children of the world from the false belief that soccer is better than football.

The frontrunner in the upcoming presidential election in Argentina, Javier Milei, told Bloomberg News in an interview published Thursday that he would “not promote relations with communists,” including one of Argentina’s largest trade partners, China.

Former liberation theologian Friar Clodovis Boff has blamed Liberation Theology for the sharp decline of Catholic belief and practice in his native Brazil.

The Central American province of the Jesuit order has issued a formal rebuke to the government of Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega following the confiscation this week of the Central American University (UCA) of Managua.

Former Ecuadorian autocrat President Rafael Correa, a fugitive avoiding his corruption convictions in Belgium, claimed on Wednesday that the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was a “right-wing plot” to “affect” the electoral performance of his party’s candidate, Luisa González.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro paid the government of São Paulo about $184,000 in fines on Wednesday for not wearing a mask.

Argentine presidential front-runner Javier Milei affirmed his commitment to a reduction in the size of the government on Tuesday evening.

Brazilian radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Monday that he hopes to see more American investments in Brazil’s green energy projects one week after failing to invite President Joe Biden to an environmental summit despite Biden pledging $500 million to Lula’s Amazon fund.

The seven remaining presidential candidates in Ecuador’s upcoming election held a debate on Sunday under the shadow of the assassination of the eighth, Fernando Villavicencio, who was gunned down less than a week ago outside a campaign event.

Argentine libertarian economist Javier Milei won first place in Sunday’s nationwide presidential primary with 30 percent of the votes.

Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo criticized one of his “heroes,” Brazilian radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on Thursday over the latter allegedly not doing enough to protect the Amazon Rainforest during a regional summit.

Fernando Villavicencio, the presidential candidate in Ecuador assassinated on Wednesday, had denounced death threats for months.

Fernando Villavicencio, the Ecuadorian presidential candidate assassinated on Wednesday, had a long history of anti-China positions.

Unknown gunmen killed presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio – running on a strong-on-crime, anti-corruption, anti-China platform – on Wednesday night before a massive crowd outside of a campaign event in Quito, Ecuador.

The U.S. Embassy in Haiti was closed on Tuesday due to nearby gunfire in the capital city of Port-au-Prince. Haiti has been torn by gang violence and near-anarchy ever since the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in July 2021.

Brazil failed to invite the United States to participate in the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) summit beginning on Tuesday – a notable omission given that President Joe Biden pledged 2.5 billion Brazilian reais ($500 million) to Brazil’s Amazon Fund this year.