The family of a prominent political prisoner in Cuba, Loreto Hernández García, accused prison guards on Monday of asphyxiating him, beating him, shoving him into solitary confinement, and hurling racist epithets in response to a protest inside the prison.
Santiago Peña of Paraguay’s incumbent conservative Colorado Party won the presidency of the South American nation in Sunday’s general elections with 42.74 percent of the votes, defeating leftist opposition candidate Efraín Alegre by a roughly 15-point margin.
Communists around the world observed a relatively subdued May Day holiday on Monday, with some large marches and plenty of vacations but few fireworks.
The Maduro regime has its eyes set on holding a presidential election in 2024 and is inching towards a plan — one that would in all likelihood result in a sham vote “reelecting” the dictator.
Lawmaker Orlando Silva of the Communist Party of Brazil submitted the final version of an anti-”fake news” bill to Congress Thursday, aimed at censoring alleged disinformation.
A court in the Espirito Santo state of Brazil on Wednesday ordered a temporary suspension of the secure messaging platform Telegram because it refused to provide information about neo-Nazi groups that allegedly used Telegram posts to incite violence in schools.
Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar spent this week touring Latin America to boost India’s profile in the Western hemisphere.
Far-left Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s disapproval rating reached 57 percent this week, its highest point so far, according to the results of a poll conducted by the Colombian survey agency Invamer released on Wednesday.
Argentina struck a deal with Beijing on Wednesday to stop using U.S. dollars to pay for Chinese imports and embrace the yuan instead.
The “International Conference on the Political Process in Venezuela,” organized by Colombian radical leftist President Gustavo Petro, concluded on Tuesday with no results beyond a statement with recommendations made by participating countries for both Venezuela’s socialist regime and the establishment “opposition.
The head of the only legal workers’ union in Cuba announced on Tuesday that the communist regime had canceled its most prestigious annual event, the May Day parade in Havana, due to “limitations with securing fuel.”
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday filed a gloomy report on Chile’s plans to nationalize its lithium industry, which would freeze Beijing out of exploiting the vital “green energy” mineral. The editors vacillated between warning Chile that it courts disaster, and huffing that China doesn’t really need Chile’s lithium output.
The Haitian police announced on Monday that residents of the capital city, Port-au-Prince, overpowered a group of suspected gang members and executed them on the spot by hanging them and setting them on fire.
Police in Huancayo, Peru, freed a suspect identified as 42-year-old Walter César Solís Calero this weekend after officials at a local girls’ school found him, dressed in the school’s uniform and hiding behind a sanitary mask, in a school bathroom carrying a mobile phone.
Venezuela’s former President Juan Guaidó arrived in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday morning from Bogotá after Colombian migrant authorities forced him to board a plane out of the country.
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, published a message of support to journalist Tucker Carlson on social media late Monday following Fox News’ abrupt announcement that day that its most popular anchor would no longer work there.
Alberto Fernández, the president of Argentina, announced this weekend that he would not be a candidate in the 2023 presidential election.
Chilean far-left President Gabriel Boric announced plans to nationalize the country’s lithium industry in a national broadcast on Thursday evening.
Leftist Colombian President Gustavo Petro told reporters on Thursday that his leftist American counterpart Joe Biden was “interested” in a scheme to pressure the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other global banking institutions to offer debt relief to countries that promise to invest in fighting the “climate crisis.”
CARACAS, Venezuela – Colombian Ambassador to Venezuela Armando Benedetti claimed on Tuesday that the Biden Administration is evaluating lifting American sanctions on the Venezuelan socialist regime.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, a radical leftist and once-member of the Marxist April 19th (M-19) Movement guerrilla, touted his past as an urban insurgent in a plea to the Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday to implement “revolutionary” reforms to its Democratic Charter.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived here on Tuesday to meet with dictator Nicolás Maduro and other members of the Venezuelan socialist regime.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro launched a weekly television show Monday called Con Maduro+ (“With Maduro Plus”).
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met his Brazilian counterpart Mauro Vieira on Monday as part of Lavrov’s five-day Latin American tour to Brazil, Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
CARACAS — Venezuelan transgender former lawmaker Tamara Adrián announced on Thursday a run in the upcoming primary elections to represent the Venezuelan “opposition” against socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Communist state security officials in Camagüey, Cuba, detained and interrogated seven-year-old Katherin Acosta Peña on Thursday regarding her mother, dissident Marisol Peña Cobas, who faces charges of corruption youth for insufficiently indoctrinating Acosta into communism.
Radical leftist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed 15 agreements with genocidal communist Chinese dictator Xi Jinping during an in-person summit in Beijing on Friday, vowing cooperation on everything from space exploration to news media.
Brazilian Justice Minister Flavio Dino on Wednesday announced new restrictions on social media to combat an “epidemic” of assaults on children. Dino said website administrators will be required to ban users who “are promoting or supporting attacks or violence against schools.”
A 14-year-old Brazilian student attacked two nine-year-old girls with an ax at the Alcântara Costa Municipal School, located in the rural area of the city of Farias Brito, in the state of Ceará, Brazil, on Wednesday, gravely injuring one of the girls.
Brazil’s radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva arrived in Shanghai on Wednesday for a two-day visit to China that will conclude with a meeting with dictator Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday.
Mexican ballad singer Julián Figueroa has died at the age of 27 from a heart ailment. Figueroa was the son of actress Maribel Guardia and singer Joan Sebastian.
A child, reportedly either 12 or 13 years old, in Brazil attacked two fellow students and a teacher with a knife at the Adventist Institute of Manaus on Monday. All three victims suffered superficial injuries according to the Secretary of Public Security of Amazonas State.
Brazil’s radical socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva departed his country for Shanghai on Tuesday, potentially preparing to engage in “cooperation” with the Chinese Communist Party under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), according to Chinese state media.
Local and international journalist groups demanded the release of Nicaraguan reporter Victor Ticay this weekend after communist authorities arrested him on Thursday for covering a traditional Catholic Holy Week procession.
CARACAS, Venezuela – Police in Barquisimeto, Lara state, reportedly seized an effigy meant to be burned of Súper Bigote (“Super Mustache”), socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s superhero alter ego, on Wednesday.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday said he wrote a letter to Chinese dictator Xi Jinping pleading for his help in slowing down the flood of deadly fentanyl passing from China into Mexico, and then over President Joe Biden’s open borders into the United States. Lopez Obrador got his answer on Thursday when the Chinese Foreign Ministry insisted there was no illegal fentanyl traffic from China into Mexico.
A 25-year-old man killed four children with an ax and injured five more at a Brazilian day care center located in the southern city of Blumenau, Santa Catarina, on Wednesday.
Brazil’s Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) may soon impose a ban on former President Jair Bolsonaro for running for office, national media outlets reported this week, for allegedly having spread disinformation about the nation’s electoral system during an official encounter with diplomats in July.
A passenger fell off a balcony on a cruise ship traveling from Florida to Honduras on Sunday, resulting in her death.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sent a letter to Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Tuesday asking Beijing to help “control” fentanyl imports, in particular requesting information on manufacturers and shipments.
