Starving Venezuelans fleeing across the border to Brazil have become a common sight around the dumpsters of the country’s biggest border cities, sending their children to find edible garbage to survive. The images, mirroring the reality in their home country, have triggered a backlash among the local population, Brazilian outlet Globo reported on Wednesday.
Venezuelan socialist leader and accused drug lord Diosdado Cabello was in the middle of a speech about the greatness of Bolivarian socialism when a 7.0 earthquake struck the country Tuesday afternoon, triggering panic in the Caracas crowd and leaving Cabello momentarily speechless.
A Venezuelan court suspended the upcoming “Miss Venezuela” beauty pageant on Monday after the winner of last year’s contest launched a legal case against the competition’s organizers.
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The federal government in Brazil demanded on Sunday that the border state of Roraima allow the military to deploy in defense of Venezuelan refugees in the state following a mob attack in which locals stoned refugees and burned their few belongings.
Cuba’s political police arrested prominent anti-communist dissident Jorge Luis García Pérez, known popularly as “Antúnez,” on Wednesday after summoning him to a state immigration office. His wife says police told her he was banned from leaving the country due to his association with members of the Cuban exile community, which the officer referred to as “terrorists.”
Many Venezuelans are now facing the prospect of lack of access to clean water, a crisis affecting everything from people’s homes to public hospitals, a report from Reuters detailed on Wednesday.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert offered an official condemnation for the communist government of Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua on Tuesday, urging his regime to end its “cowardly attacks” on unarmed protesters and Catholic leaders, including clergy.
In a rare interview with Fox News on Monday, Nicaragua’s communist leader Daniel Ortega blamed the deaths of over 300 people during anti-government protests on paramilitary groups and reaffirmed his refusal to step down.
The Central Bank of Venezuela has begun refining gold in Turkey in a bid to escape the pressure of international economic sanctions against the Maduro regime, the country’s mining minister announced on Wednesday.
Hundreds of police and paramilitary forces loyal to communist dictator Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua violently retook control of a major anti-government stronghold known as the birthplace of the Marxist Sandinista movement this week.
The U.S. State Department ramped up visa restrictions on officials from the communist regime in Nicaragua, accusing members of dictator Daniel Ortega’s government of “undermining democracy” and being responsible for “ongoing attacks” against university student protesters, journalists, and clergy.
The United States announced on Monday a further $6 million aid package to help Venezuelan refugees fleeing the neighboring country of Colombia.
An estimated 200 student protesters deemed “terrorists” by the communist government of Nicaragua safely walked out of a Catholic Church after it was besieged for hours over the weekend by forces loyal to Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega in an incident that left two dead and dozens wounded.
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WASHINGTON, DC — The administration of Nicaragua’s communist dictator Daniel Ortega is denying ”access to healthcare” to detractors and forcing families, likely from the opposition, to lie about the cause of death for their loved ones before they can retrieve their body, a senior U.S. Department of State (DOS) official told lawmakers.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro claimed in remarks Thursday that the United States wishes to engineer an “armed confrontation” between Venezuelan troops and Colombian paramilitaries.
Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the Archbishop Jorge Urosa Savino of Caracas this week, the Vatican announced.
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The United States embassy in Haiti has asked for further military backup, including Marines, as the capital, Port-au-Prince, remains gripped by violent civil unrest.
One of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s socialist lawmakers warned on Monday that the military would bomb Colombia should the Trump administration employ a military solution against the regime.
Nicaragua’s communist dictator Daniel Ortega over the weekend described the government’s violent crackdown on protesters demanding his exit that has so far killed more than 300 demonstrators since April as a “battle for peace” that follows in the footsteps of Jesus Christ.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un sent a letter and exchanged “wholehearted greetings” with Cuban leader Raúl Castro as the regime seeks to bolster relations with its traditional communist allies, state media announced on Monday.
An appellate judge in Brazil scrambled Sunday to overturn a surprise decision by a lower-level weekend duty judge to free former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a socialist serving a 12-year prison sentence for spearheading a million-dollar corruption scheme.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s leading henchman, Diosdado Cabello, has demanded an investigation into President Donald Trump’s alleged plans to invade Venezuela.
Over 50 countries pressed the Nicolás Maduro’s dictatorship in Venezuela on Thursday to restore the rule of law and allow humanitarian aid as the country’s overall predicament continues to rapidly decline.
President Donald Trump pressed his aides on whether to invade Venezuela to topple the ruling Maduro dictatorship, according to an Associated Press report published Wednesday.
A judge in Ecuador ordered the arrest Tuesday of former President Rafael Correa, a staunch anti-American leftist whose tenure was defined by his friendly ties with Venezuela, China, and Cuba and has reportedly begun proceedings with Interpol to aid in his detention.
The U.S. embassy in Cuba, operating only on essential staff since the State Department confirmed more than two dozen diplomats and their families suffered health attacks of unknown origin there, hosted some of the country’s most prominent anti-communist dissidents for a Fourth of July celebration Thursday.
Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen spent Wednesday visiting Venezuelan refugees in the Amazon city of Manaus, Brazil, listening to their stories of escaping the repressive socialist regime in Caracas and promising support from the American people.
The U.S. State Department confirmed Thursday that the number of American citizens suffering “health effects” from an unspecified attack at the American embassy in Havana, Cuba, has risen to 25.
A crackdown on anti-establishment protesters carried out by the communist government of Sandinista President Daniel Ortega and his supporters in Nicaragua over the last two months has left nearly 180 people dead and imprisoned almost 2,000.
Colombia officially declared conservative candidate Iván Duque the winner of Sunday’s presidential election after decisively defeating his hard-left opponent Gustavo Petro.
Medical authorities in Venezuela revealed this weekend that they have recorded the first case of polio, a disease largely eradicated in the developed world, in over 30 years.
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The rightful owners of two of Cuba’s largest ports, stolen from their families by the communist Cuban revolution, launched a campaign this week in conjunction with human rights organizations to discourage American tourism in the island nation.
At least 75 people have died and nearly 200 people are missing in Guatemala after a seismic eruption of the Fuego volcano outside Guatemala City on Sunday, according to reports.
U.S. Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) enjoyed a “friendly meeting” with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Monday, praising his “fluent” understanding of internet issues as an engineer. The meeting was the first with an American government guest since taking office for Díaz-Canel, who remains subordinate to the country’s leader, dictator Raúl Castro.
Dozens of people were killed in Guatemala on Sunday after the Fuego volcano erupted, the country’s largest such eruption in over a century.
As of Tuesday, around 357 political dissidents remain imprisoned by Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime in Venezuela, according to the legal aid group Foro Penal.
