Ecuador’s government announced Monday plans to expand an established marine reserve in the Pacific Ocean surrounding the Galápagos Islands to deter illegal fishing of protected marine life in the area predominantly carried out by China, Radio France Internationale (RFI) reported Wednesday.
The Minister of Labor of Brazil issued an ordinance on Monday prohibiting employers in the country from requiring proof of coronavirus vaccination from their workers for the purposes of “hiring or maintaining employment,” O Globo reported.
Italy’s left-populist Five Star Movement (M5S) is under investigation by prosecutors in Milan over allegations of receiving millions of euros of illicit funds from the Venezuelan consul in 2010.
Guards at a women’s prison in central Santa Clara, Cuba, dragged political prisoner Arianna López Roque into the prison’s yard and gave her a brutal gang beating in response to a demonstration she staged within the prison calling for a national strike, sources confirmed to Radio Martí on Thursday.
Globo, the biggest news outlet in Brazil, published an op-ed on Wednesday calling for America’s Big Tech platforms to ban President Jair Bolsonaro from social media, much as they banned Donald Trump when he was the sitting president of the United States.
An anonymous hacker collective revealed the names of alleged Hezbollah terrorists living in Venezuela on Tuesday, accusing them of profiting from drug and human trafficking there after arriving as “students.”
The Brazilian Senate committee investigating President Jair Boslonaro’s response to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic voted 7-4 on Tuesday to recommend criminal charges against him, including crimes against humanity.
Cuban communists flooded social media outlets with images of mobs holding firearms, sticks, rocks, and other makeshift weapons as part of “acts of revolutionary affirmation” meant to scare political dissidents out of participating in a march planned for November 15, multiple outlets reported on Monday.
Cuban officials are committing “brutal abuses” against Cubans who participated in the largely peaceful July 11 protests against the country’s 62-year-old communist regime, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch on Tuesday.
The Cuban Communist Party joined the official “Energy Alliance” of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) this week – an extension of the Chinese global infrastructure program focused on developing energy infrastructure globally.
Leftist opposition senators in Brazil reportedly penned a draft report recommending charging President Jair Bolsonaro with homicide, and even genocide, for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic; the accusations disappeared from the report Wednesday.
Vice President Kamala Harris is hiding behind her assigned mission to address problems in just three Central American countries to avoid the growing political fallout from the worsening border crises.
Haiti’s acting prime minister, Ariel Henry, was forced to flee an official government event commemorating one of Haiti’s founding fathers on Sunday after a local gang leader seized control of the ceremony, Britain’s Independent newspaper reported Tuesday.
Thousands of people opposed to the populist government of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele staged demonstrations in the country’s capital city, San Salvador, on Sunday in which they denounced his recent legalization of Bitcoin as a national currency, the Associated Press (AP) reported Monday.
The Venezuelan government on Saturday cut off negotiations with both the United States and the Venezuelan opposition after businessman Alex Saab, a close ally of socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro, was extradited to the U.S. to face money laundering charges.
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera declared a state of emergency in the country’s south on Tuesday after militant members of the Mapuche indigenous group used “heavy caliber weapons” to attack local police, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Wednesday.
Opposition lawmakers in Chile launched impeachment proceedings against the country’s president, Sebastián Piñera, on Wednesday, claiming he was involved with alleged irregularities in the 2010 sale of a mining company according to details recently divulged in the Pandora Papers leak.
Juan Guillermo Zuluaga, the governor of central Colombia’s Meta region, told reporters on Tuesday he survived two attempts on his life — the first by a sniper and the second via explosive device — within a 24-hour period from Sunday to Monday, Voice of America (VOA) reported.
Havana on Tuesday denied a group of political activists opposed to Cuba’s communist government permission to stage protest marches on the island, claiming the group was tied to “subversive organizations” promoting an overthrow of the national government.
Guatemala joined the pro-life, Trump-initiated Geneva Consensus Declaration, which the Biden administration rejected this year.
A Colombian nun kidnapped and held hostage by a Mali affiliate of Al-Qaeda in 2017 was recently freed, the office of the Malian presidency announced Sunday.
Mexico’s government has agreed to slow and regulate the flow of migrants heading to the U.S. border, a migration expert at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) told Breitbart News.
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “José Díaz-Balart Reports,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) said that the Biden administration needs to “create Internet access into Cuba” and that doing so will bring change to the island. Menendez stated,
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez complained on Wednesday that funds for coronavirus relief from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have been frozen because the United States refuses to recognize the full legitimacy of dictator Nicolas Maduro’s government.
An indigenous group said on Wednesday it will “indefinitely” block a key mining road in the Espinar province of Peru until its demands are met. Peruvian President Pedro Castillo quickly sacked his prime minister in response to the blockade, while his government announced a deal to satisfy another indigenous group that has been blocking a Chinese-owned mine.
Nine members of a Cuban national baseball team defected to Mexico in recent days while in the country to compete in an international tournament, the Associated Press (AP) reported Monday.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — A family of Venezuelan migrants walked through the shallow waters of the Rio Grande, meeting no resistance from law enforcement authorities on Friday. The group told Breitbart Texas they left their residence in Chile due to persecution from a Venezuelan paramilitary gang working in concert with local police.
Mexican officials are concerned that more than 125,000 Haitian migrants are expected to be in their country by the end of 2021 with the majority trying to reach the U.S. border. However, the figure could be much higher due to migrants who enter Mexico without notifying authorities. The concerns expressed by officials range from law enforcement to humanitarian and sanitary issues since Mexico does not have the resources to absorb the influx.
President Joe Biden’s immigration authorities have repatriated over 5,000 Haitian migrants aboard 50 removal flights since September 19, a United Nations entity revealed Thursday.
Fights between rival gangs linked to Mexico’s two top drug cartels broke out in Ecuador’s Litoral penitentiary in the city of Guayaquil between Tuesday and Thursday, killing at least 116 inmates, five of whom were beheaded.
A Mexican TV Host who famously proposed to NFL star Tom Brady during a sideline interview is reportedly on the run from Mexican authorities.
The U.S. government’s intervention in foreign countries leaves behind “death” and “scars,” Cuban leader Miguel Marion Diaz-Canel Bermudez said on Thursday at the 76th session of the U.N. General Assembly.
The number of global migrants at the border will keep rising unless President Joe Biden tightens border security, Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) told the administration’s homeland security chief during a congressional hearing.
Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro urged the U.S. and the European Union (E.U.) to lift “criminal” oil sanctions imposed on the Latin American nation in a speech presented at the 76th session of the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro devoted much of his speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to touting his country’s business environment and talking up progress on Amazon deforestation, but for much of the media, it was difficult to hear Bolsonaro over the sound of him not being vaccinated.
Caribbean migrants claim that Mexico’s government is lying to them in order to keep them from reaching the U.S. border as they seek jobs and a better life.
Brazil’s Health Ministry on Thursday urged states across the country to stop administering Chinese coronavirus vaccines to healthy adolescents aged 12-17 years old, citing an ongoing investigation into the recent death of a teenager in São Paulo state after she received the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.
The latest border apprehension numbers show a huge rise in migrants from distant countries, including Colombia, India, and Turkey, seeking to enter the U.S.
Biden officials began taking applications from Central American migrants with pending legal status claims who want fly in their families.
A Bolivian woman reportedly bit into a fast-food hamburger only to find a decomposing human finger, the New York Post reported Thursday.
