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President of Argentina Javier Milei arrived in New York in the late evening hours of Saturday for a brief visit to the United States in anticipation of addressing the United Nations General Assembly, reportedly on Tuesday.

President of Panama José Raúl Mulino said local authorities have detected an increase in U.S.-bound Chinese migrants crossing the Darién Gap.

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino reiterated his plans to deport U.S-bound migrants who cross Panama through the Darién Gap jungle trail.

U.S. Sens. Rick Scott (R-FL) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced a bill on Thursday that seeks to increase the bounty on Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro from $15 million to $100 million.

Cuba sentenced dissident José Manuel Barreiro Rouco to two and a half years in prison for sharing anti-regime memes on WhatsApp.

The U.S. agreed to help Kenya and El Salvador develop peaceful nuclear power at the annual International Atomic Energy Agency conference.

The authoritarian regimes of Cuba and Venezuela on Tuesday issued statements condemning an apparent attack on Hezbollah operatives in Syria and Lebanon in which hundreds of pagers exploded spontaneously.

Luis Raúl González-Pardo Rodríguez, a Cuban pilot linked to the communist regime’s killing of four Americans in 1996, now lives in the United States thanks to the Biden-Harris administration’s “humanitarian parole” program, Martí Noticias reported on Monday.

The United Nations fact-finding mission on Venezuela denounced that the socialist regime is committing crimes against humanity.

Venezuela announced it arrested three U.S. citizens for their alleged involvement in a plot to assassinate socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Brazilian journalist and TV presenter José Luiz Datena, a candidate for mayor of São Paulo, assaulted an opponent with an iron chair during a live debate Sunday evening.

The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed between Nicaragua’s communist regime and China has had little to no effect on improving the Nicaraguan economy, the local newspaper La Prensa reported on Friday.

Environmentalists in Venezuela denounced that several marine animals were found dead and covered in oil in Lake Maracaibo.

A growing number of Cubans are forced to scavenge through garbage to find something to eat and survive, the outlet Cubanet reported.

Brazilian socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Wednesday that his government will continue receiving Venezuelan migrants.

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, credited for taking down the communist Shining Path insurgency in the 1990s but imprisoned for 25 years on charges of human rights abuses and corruption, died on Wednesday. He was 86.

The National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina (INDEC) announced on Wednesday afternoon that it measured an inflation rate in Argentina of 4.2 percent in August.

The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance (ARC) urged the European Union this week to cease its financial support of Cuba’s communist regime.

A group of U.S. representatives issued a letter on Monday demanding U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken provide information explaining to Congress how Manuel Menéndez Castellanos, a former high-ranking member of the Cuban Communist Party, was granted a U.S. immigrant visa.

Two high-ranking Cuban diplomats reportedly participated in encounters with leftist activists and union leaders in Atlanta in August.

A “smoke screen” caused by the out-of-control fires in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil hit southern neighbors Argentina and Uruguay this week, local Argentine and Uruguayan media reported.

Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, who claims to have defeated dictator Nicolás Maduro in a sham presidential election in July, left Venezuela and arrived in Spain on Sunday, seeking political asylum.

Tens of thousands of conservatives joined a rally in Sao Paulo on Saturday – Brazilian Independence Day – in support of former President Jair Bolsonaro and denouncing the recent Supreme Court ban on the social media outlet Twitter (X), among other issues.

Venezuelan Interior Minister and long-suspected drug lord Diosdado Cabello claimed on Wednesday evening that a U.S. Navy sailor recently detained by Venezuelan law enforcement officials was part of a “plot” to infiltrate the country and attack socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and his regime.

Argentine President Javier Milei criticized Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and Brazilian socialist Lula da Silva at the Madrid Forum.

Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro accused the nation’s Police Intelligence Directorate of illegally buying Israeli spyware.

Venezuelan law enforcement officials detained a U.S. Navy sailor visiting Caracas, Venezuela, on August 30, officials confirmed.

Outgoing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is expediting the hiring of 5,223 Cuban slave doctors.

Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service has announced it will comply with a Brazilian Supreme Court order to block access to Musk’s social media platform X in Brazil.

The Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (CEV) rejected the political use of Christmas carried out by socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Acting Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille said Tuesday his government has received only a fraction of the funding and manpower promised by the international community to fight back against the gangs that have violently taken control over most of the country.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says his government’s crusade against Elon Musk and X should be an example to the world.

The Venezuelan Public Prosecutor’s Office — loyal to socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro — issued an arrest warrant on Monday for opposition leader Edmundo González, accusing him of alleged conspiracy and other crimes as Maduro continues its brutal crackdown on dissidents following the July 28 sham presidential election, which the dictator fraudulently insists he “won.”

Elon Musk has escalated his attacks against Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, calling for his arrest after the country’s high court upheld a ban on the X social media platform.

U.S. authorities seized a $13 million luxury plane used by Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro on Monday.

Keith Ellison, attorney general for Minnesota – the state where Kamala Harris VP pick Tim Walz serves as governor – on Monday celebrated Brazil’s supreme court banning Elon Musk’s X from the country.