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Venezuela’s socialist regime kicked off the “Merry Christmas 2024” season on Tuesday as decreed by dictator Nicolás Maduro.

President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele met his “great friend,” Argentine President Javier Milei, on Monday.

Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Valdrack Ludwing Jaentschke declared that Nicaragua is “one” with other rogue regimes around the world such as Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, and China in his ideological speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday morning.

The social media platform X (formerly Twitter) must pay a fine of ten million Brazilian reais (roughly $1.84 million) to restore its services in Brazil, Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Minister Alexandre de Moraes announced over the weekend.

Venezuela’s SAIME identification and migrant services office announced on Thursday that Venezuelans who requested passports in consulates recently closed by socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro must now go to Caracas to pick them up — an impossible task for many.

The head of Haiti’s “Transitional Presidential Council” demanded “historical reparations” for his country at the U.N. General Assembly.

The central bank of Argentina reported on Monday foreign currency deposits have surged by about $8 billion under the policies of libertarian President Javier Milei.

Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Yván Gil spoke at the United Nations on Wednesday, accusing Israel – with the “complicity” of the United States and the European Union – of “the greatest crime of extermination and genocide since the one committed by Hitler.”

President of Panama José Raúl Mulino declared U.S.-bound migrants passing through his country an “immense global problem” at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, urging the international community to help.

President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa abruptly canceled his address to the United Nations General Assembly, scheduled for Wednesday, to return home in response to raging forest fires in the capital city of Quito.

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, offered the U.N. General Assembly a succinct speech on Tuesday comprised of two parts: a victory lap on the overwhelming success of his campaign against criminal gangs, and a warning from “a friend” that the current trajectory of the Western world will lead to a “new dark ages of humanity.”

Argentine President Javier Milei used his debut speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to deliver an enthusiastic condemnation of “globalism and the moral posturing of the woke agenda” and warn that the U.N. flagship Agenda 2030 is a threat to global freedom.

Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro declared at the U.N. that neither Israel nor the United States are “the children of God.”

Leftist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defended the censorship of anti-globalists at the U.N. General Assembly.

The repressive communist government of Cuba held an event this weekend in New York under the guise of strengthening ties to the global Cuban diaspora – which exists almost entirely as a result of the regime’s human rights atrocities – in which it encouraged Cubans abroad to “participate in the economic development of the country.”

Brazilian conservative leaders who stood in defense of X have not issued public statements at press time on its potential return.

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.

In a surprising act of capitulation, Elon Musk and his X social media platform are complying with the demands of Brazil’s Supreme Court after weeks of defiance.

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.

Venezuela’s socialist regime will seek arrest warrants for Argentine President Javier Milei, his sister, and Security Minister Patricia Bullrich.

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.

A group of criminals set up a fake U.S. “immigration court” inside a Venezuelan prison to scam migrants in New York out of thousands of dollars through false court proceedings and “legal” fees, Univisión reported on Monday.

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.