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President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ranted against President Donald Trump’s tariff and deportation policies on Monday.

Growing demand for Ozempic and similar drugs used for weight loss in Brazil has sparked a wave of violent robberies across pharmacies by organized gangs who see it as a lucrative source of income, the New York Times reported over the weekend.

Illegal Brazilian migrants in the United States are utilizing WhatsApp group messaging chats to share live information on ICE raids.

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Colombian superstar Shakira canceled her Sunday concert in Lima after being hospitalized with an abdominal condition, the singer said.

Cuba’s communist regime suspended all education and work activities for Friday and Saturday in a last ditch desperate effort to “save power” in the face of Cuba’s barely functional power grid.

Members of Panama’s Suntracs construction workers’ union staged intense violent riots in Panama City on Wednesday, leaving 17 injured police officers and more than 500 people arrested by local law enforcement agents.

Brazil’s Air Force announced that it shot down a plane allegedly carrying drugs that illegally entered its airspace from Venezuela, killing two pilots.

Bolivia must pay $2 billion plus interest to Chinese and Russian companies building lithium processing plants in the country, the Bolivian newspaper El Deber reported on Wednesday, even though Bolivia already offered them preferential extraction rights.

The Cuban totalitarian dictatorship constitutes a vital threat to the national security of the United States its citizens.

Specialized members of Haiti’s National Police together with members of the Kenyan-led multinational security mission to Haiti over the weekend launched a major security operation to crack down on pre-Carnival activities organized by 400 Mawozo, one of the nation’s largest gangs.

Attorney General of Venezuela Tarek William Saab said he would file a complaint in the U.S. against the Venezuela opposition for misuse of USAID funds.

The Sandinista regime of co-dictators Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo in Nicaragua published an unhinged screed this weekend declaring the Vatican a “depraved pedophile” state guilty of “Pharisean mysticism,” an apparent response to the public appearance of a bishop Managua persecuted.

Numerous people lost their lives on Monday in a bus crash in Guatemala that flipped the vehicle upside down.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro requested the resignation of all of his government’s ministers and directors of administrative institutions on Sunday, choosing to announce the move on social media.

The Trump administration announced that deportation flights of illegal aliens from the United States to Venezuela would be resuming, with Richard Grenell, President Donald Trump’s Envoy for Special Missions, overseeing the first two flights.

Incumbent President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa narrowly defeated establishment socialist candidate Luisa González on Sunday in the first round of the nation’s 2025 presidential elections.

Ex-President of Colombia Álvaro Uribe Vélez claimed Colombian Supreme Court Justice César Augusto Reyes, who arrested him, worked for USAID.

The president of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council, Leslie Voltaire, greeted 70 police officers from Guatemala and El Salvador at the airport in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday.

Ricardo Leal, a forensic expert at the Brazilian Society of Toxicology (SBTox), warned of the dangers of the nitazenes synthetic super-opioids arriving to Brazil from China in an interview published by the Argentine outlet Infobae on Friday.

Jacques Audiard, director of the Netflix drug cartel musical “Emilia Pérez,” has disavowed his film’s transgender star, Karla Sofia Gascón for his past social media posts that disparaged Muslims, the Chinese, and black people, threatening to derail the actor’s campaign for Best Actress.

Venezuelan non-governmental organization Foro Penal on Wednesday published a list of the names of the six American men who returned home last week as a result of negotiations led by President Donald Trump.

The president of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, said the U.S. Department of State’s claim about Panama Canal fees was false.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves Robles on Monday for discussions that prioritized cybersecurity concerns and Costa Rica’s longstanding conflict with Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.

The Department of State announced on Wednesday that United States government vessels would be allowed to travel through the Panama Canal without facing “charge fees.”

President of Argentina Javier Milei ordered the country to withdraw from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Wednesday.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s offer to take in convicted criminals, including convicted U.S. citizens, and house them in the country’s “mega-prison” would have to first be fully studied.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro once again called for the legalization of cocaine and claimed it is “not worse than whiskey” during a disastrous six-hour-long meeting on Tuesday evening with his cabinet of ministers that the government broadcast live.

Netflix has dropped Karla Sofia Gascon, the star of “Emilia Perez,” from its high-profile Oscars campaign and distanced itself from the best actress nominee over her offensive social media posts, Hollywood trade outlets reported Tuesday.

The human rights organization Prisoners Defenders revealed in a report on Tuesday that 198 political prisoners Cuba claimed to free as a gesture of solidarity with the Vatican in January were already eligible for release from prison, either because they completed their sentences or were eligible for house arrest.

President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa announced on Monday that his country will impose a 27 percent tariff on Mexican goods to ensure “fair treatment” of Ecuadorian producers.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio received a warm welcome from President Nayib Bukele and his family at the presidential palace in El Salvador.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed a memorandum of understanding with El Salvador on Monday in which America agreed to help the country develop “civil nuclear energy,” both to fuel the national power grid and for scientific and medical development.

Six American citizens, unjustly detained by Venezuela’s socialist Maduro regime between September and October, returned home this weekend after negotiations led by President Donald Trump.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested in a meeting with Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino on Sunday that the administration of President Donald Trump may move to seize the Panama Canal on the grounds that the Panamanian government has violated the agreement that gives the country control over the waterway.

“Emilia Perez” star Karla Sofía Gascón — the first transgender performer ever nominated for an Academy Award — also penned a lengthy apology amid the continued publicity crisis over the actor’s past social media posts in which Gascón repeatedly insulted Muslims, mocked George Floyd, and ridiculed diversity.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio succeeded in convincing Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino to opt out of renewing its agreement with China regarding the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).