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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said Congress must qualify the political nature of oppression in Cuba as “communist,” “Marxist,” and “socialist.”

CARACAS, Venezuela — Socialist Dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on May 25 that a possible reopening of Venezuelan classrooms may occur in October 2021 after over a year of coronavirus lockdowns.

Russian “support” is “requested now more than ever” in Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said Wednesday.

VP Harris told reporters in Mexico Tuesday that countries in the region are at fault for the U.S. southern border crisis.

A report published by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) warns China could gain “coercive leverage” – in essence, blackmail material – over Asian, African, and Latin American countries thanks to telecom giant Huawei’s strategy to provide massive amounts of Internet storage to dozens of governments at discounted prices.

In late April, Colombia watched as peaceful demonstrations against an ill-timed tax reform turned violent. The ensuing riots spanned several weeks and engulfed almost every major city in the country.

Chile will remove 11 women from positions on a body meant to draft a new constitution following their election Sunday as a result of a “gender parity” law that requires that body to have a roughly equal number of men and women.

Vice President Kamala Harris is apparently blowing off a Wednesday request by President Joe Biden to help bolster the enforcement of migration laws in Mexico and Latin American countries.

Border agents are releasing almost nine out of 10 migrants in families who arrive at the border, according to a report Tuesday in Axios.com.

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele declared Monday that soaring migration levels are bad for the U.S. and even worse for Latin America.

Venezuela abruptly ended a strict lockdown, an attempt to fight the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, this week after dictator Nicolás Maduro announced the official start of carnival season.

Two Christian-majority nations — Colombia and Mexico — appeared in the ranking of the top 50 most dangerous places to be a Christian in the world published by the Christian aid organization Open Doors this week.

The Organization of American States (OAS) issued a statement on Wednesday condemning the “exercise of force and vandalism” by supporters of President Donald Trump at the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, earlier the same day.

Socialist leaders in Latin America, most prominently those in charge of the dictatorship in Venezuela, observed the anniversary of a drone strike against leading Iranian terrorist Qasem Soleimani this weekend with vocal condemnations of America and statements of solidarity with Iran.

The Senate in Argentina legalized aborting the unborn child up to 14 weeks-gestation on Wednesday. The landmark move will provide the procedure for free, establishing the abortion industry in the country while defying the pleas from native son Pope Francis to defeat the measure.

A member of the anti-communist opposition in Nicaragua claimed one of the heads of the National Police beat him following his recent arrest for mocking the country’s communist regime on the Chinese social media platform TikTok.

Two deputies for President-elect Joe Biden are urging migrants not to rush the U.S. border, saying officials will soon offer various legal routes for migrants to get into U.S. workplaces and communities.

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest dropped by 45 percent in November, marking the third consecutive month it has decreased, according to the latest data from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE).

The Brazilian newspaper O Globo noted on Friday that Joe Biden, who will presumably take the office of the U.S. presidency in January, has not made any calls to the heads of state of Latin America’s largest nations, skipping Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia and, instead, reaching out to the socialist leader of Argentina.

Manuel Merino, who became president of Peru on Tuesday, resigned on Sunday after nationwide protests erupted against his rule, killing at least two people.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro threatened military action against the United States on Tuesday in response to presidential contender Joe Biden threatening to tank the Brazilian economy during his first debate with President Donald Trump.

Anti-socialist demonstrations took place across Argentina this weekend against the administration of socialist President Alberto Fernández, whose management has led to a severe economic crisis.

September saw Brazil become the third-largest provider of oil to communist China for 2020 so far, according to data the Chinese Customs Administration revealed this week.

The newly elected socialist government in Bolivia has cleared all charges against former President Evo Morales, including electoral fraud, terrorism, and pedophilia. They will then proceed to put the country’s transitional President Jeanine Añéz, who oversaw the electoral process, on trial for genocide and violation of the constitution. 

Violence, looting, and disorder erupted in Chile on Sunday evening after an overwhelming majority of people voted in favor of destroying the country’s constitution, replacing it with a new document more favorable to the nation’s left wing.

Thousands in at least four cities in Bolivia — including nearly 5,000 in Santa Cruz, the nation’s largest city — took to the streets Tuesday to protest the presumed victory of Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party candidate Luis Arce in this weekend’s presidential election.

A further 300,000 Venezuelans have fled the crisis-stricken socialist country during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic despite the widespread restrictions on movement and travel, according to a report from the Human Rights Center of the Andrés Bello Catholic University.

More than 80 organizations penned an open letter criticizing the United Nations for electing Cuba to the body’s Human Rights Council on Tuesday in an uncontested race, citing the appalling human rights record of the country’s communist regime.

Thousands in Argentina took to the streets on Monday to protest against the country’s socialist government, currently presiding over one of the world’s most severe economic crises, worsened by strict lockdown measures.

The United States seized the cargo of four Iranian fuel tankers for transporting gas to Venezuela, a violation of sanctions, the Department of Justice announced on Friday.

Over 30 suspected Russian mercenaries detained in Belarus last week were passing through the country en route to Latin America, a Russian diplomat said on Monday.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi floated the possibility on Thursday of offering Latin American countries a $1 billion loan to buy a Chinese coronavirus vaccine from Beijing.

In this post-collapse socialist Venezuela, bureaucracy has become a monster worthy of a mythological tale and, much like everything else that has systematically collapsed over the past years, it has become ripe for corruption and bribery.

Thousands of people across cities in Ecuador defied Chinese coronavirus restrictions on Monday to protest against drastic economic cuts imposed by President Lenin Moreno aimed at tackling the crisis.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro claimed in a televised address Wednesday that he had proof linking President Donald Trump to a bizarre alleged “invasion” of Venezuela this weekend and that he would bring the United States to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the matter.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro claimed on Tuesday that there has been a miracle halt on new Chinese coronavirus cases in his crisis-stricken country, with the number of infected remaining at 329 for at least 24 hours.