A new report indicates increasing concern among high-ranking officials in China that Venezuela’s economy may soon collapse, dragging an assortment of Chinese investment projects down with it.
The mother of an American citizen arrested for “espionage” in Venezuela says her son’s health is deteriorating rapidly, he has not received due process, and there is evidence to believe the socialist government framed him to take an American prisoner.
Latin American transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), including Mexican drug cartels, are paying Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah a “tax” to move people, narcotics, weapons and other contraband in and out out of the Western Hemisphere, an expert on Iranian influence in the region tells Breitbart News.
The largest weapons manufacturer in Latin America, Brazil-based Forjas Taurus SA, has reportedly been accused by Brazilian prosecutors of selling some 8,000 handguns to a known arms trafficker from war-ravaged Yemen in violation of international sanctions.
Uruguay’s Ministry of Public Health has released a new mobile phone app called “The Sex Guru,” intended to educate young people about how to practice safe sex, avoid pregnancy, and make a habit of routine doctor visits to stay healthy.
With the nation on the brink of famine, reports are surfacing that the socialist government of Venezuela may soon begin to limit the distribution of food in a town where protesters personally confronted President Nicolás Maduro, forcing him to leave.
President Michel Temer, currently in China for the G-20 summit, has dismissed protests across Brazil demanding he step down as “minimal” and “natural” following the process that successfully removed his socialist predecessor, Dilma Rousseff, from power.
Faced with what the opposition is calling, “the largest mobilization of people in the political history of Venezuela,” the nation’s socialist government is using violent police tactics, roving Chavista gangs, and “secret police” arrests of prominent dissidents to attempt to silence dissent.
Jihad Ahmad Diyab — former detainee at the U.S. Guantánamo Bay detention center and, until recently, Latin American fugitive — may be planning a “hunger strike,” demanding the small nation of Uruguay pay to reunite him with his family in the Middle East.
For the third day in a row, leftist agitators stormed Brazil’s largest city, Sao Paulo, hurling rocks at police, detonating “homemade bombs” and turning the city’s most trafficked streets into a “war zone” to protest the impeachment of leftist former
The Brazilian Senate officially impeached socialist Workers’ Party president Dilma Rousseff Wednesday, removing her from power permanently over a host of fiscal misrepresentations that severely damaged the nation’s economy. Even before the vote to oust her, however, an international coalition of leftist groups have been staging violent protests and attacking police nationwide.
Medical experts tracking the spread of the Zika virus throughout the continental United States warn that the conditions for rapid mosquito reproduction necessary for an outbreak exist throughout the Gulf Coast states and stretch as far north as Maryland.
The government of Venezuela has confirmed the abduction of human rights activist Yon Goicoechea, accusing him of amassing explosive materials on television without confirming the existence of a warrant or evidence against him.
Iran is seeking to recruit potential jihadists in Latin America to attack the United States and is using its embassies in the region as intelligence centers that promote terrorism, according to an expert on the Islamic Republic’s presence in the Americas and an anonymous congressional source.
After failing to do so on multiple occasions since President Juan Manuel Santos announced victory in September 2015, the government of Colombia has finally completed an agreement with the FARC to reintegrate the terrorist group into society, even allowing them
Florida officials announced Tuesday that a case of locally-acquired Zika infection has been confirmed in the Tampa Bay Area, as medical officials document 42 such cases in the Miami-Dade area, nearly 300 miles away.
Islam had an estimated 3 million adherents in Latin America and the Caribbean as of the end of last year, marking an increase of nearly 25 percent from the 2.3 million who were residing there in 2010, a Breitbart News analysis of U.S. Department of State (DoS) data shows.
Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, started a Latin American tour in Cuba, the latest effort by the Islamic Republic to maintain its growing relationship with nations in the region.
In an extensive investigation featuring an eyewitness interview, observance of multiple surveillance camera videos, and an on-location visit, USA Today has found significant evidence that American Olympic champion Ryan Lochte was robbed at a gas station in Rio de Janeiro, and police lied about him and three other U.S. swimmers vandalizing a bathroom.
American public health experts are warning that the Zika epidemic first identified in Latin America in February and now affecting Florida may expand throughout the Gulf states and pose a challenge to health officials for at least the next year.
World-renowned anti-communist Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas collapsed in his home Thursday on the 29th day of his 24th hunger strike and is now hospitalized and in critical condition, his mother has told international media.
Rio de Janeiro police have agreed to let U.S. Olympic swimmer James Feigen return home if he pays $11,000 to a charity of the city’s choice, following an incident in which Feigen and teammates Ryan Lochte, Gunnar Bentz, and Jack Conger were forced to pay gas station attendants money for damage at gunpoint.
In a harrowing story highlighting the growing hunger rates in socialist Venezuela, the family of a five-year-old boy has filed charges against a 16-year-old who allegedly asked the young child for sex in exchange for an arepa, a traditional Venezuelan corn bread.
U.S. officials are trying to establish closer cooperation with various Latin American nations to combat an increase in the number of illegal migrants from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East attempting to sneak into the United States.
Images of starved Venezuelans looking to feed their families by any means necessary have become increasingly commonplace as the nation’s socialist government continues to crash its economy. The most recent of these incidents involves surveillance video showing the swift mass looting of a bakery.
Brazil’s federal Supreme Court has opened an investigation into former Brazilian presidents Dilma Rousseff and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, both of the socialist Workers’ Party (PT), for potential obstruction of justice in the sprawling “Operation Car War” corruption probe.
The judge overseeing an investigation into the early-morning robbery of U.S. swimming champion Ryan Lochte and three colleagues during the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics has banned the Americans from leaving Brazil and called for their passports to be confiscated. The order comes one day after Lochte flew back to the United States, ending his Olympic trip early.
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has published a new study finding that the Zika virus is tied to a second severe health condition in unborn children and infants: arthrogryposis, a condition in which an infant’s joints are deformed, making their limbs barely functional.
A Brazilian soldier was shot dead in Rio de Janeiro this week after his GPS led him to the notoriously violent Vila do Joao favela while the group attempted to navigate back to the Olympic Village.
The latest high-profile victim of a violent robbery in Rio de Janeiro is Yevgeny Korotyshkin, an Olympic silver medalist and the president of the Moscow Swimming Federation. He joins Portugal’s Minister of Education and the head of security for the 2016 Olympic Games in having experienced a mugging while traveling between Olympic venues.
Jihad Ahmad Diyab, a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who went missing earlier this summer after leaving Uruguay, where he was given refugee status, is reportedly being kept incommunicado in a Venezuelan secret prison. His attorney fears he has taken up a hunger strike.
Brazil has had a difficult time selling tickets to Olympic events for months, as media coverage of Rio de Janeiro’s violent crime problem and the Zika epidemic dissuaded tourists from visiting. As the first week of Games continues, reports are surfacing that those who did buy tickets may have been given tickets to Olympic seats that simply do not exist.
Police in Rio de Janeiro are refusing to confirm, despite witness statements, that a bus full of international basketball journalists was shot at on its way to the main Olympic park, arguing that assailants could have broken the bus’s windows by throwing rocks at it.
Moroccan national Rachid Rafaa, previously under house arrest in French Guiana, has gone missing, and authorities believe he could have crossed the border into Brazil. Rachid has known ties to al-Qaeda and suspected ties to the Islamic State.
The Olympics opening ceremonies occurred only days ago, but Rio de Janeiro has already been the scene of some outrageous criminal scenarios, placing athletes, officers, and even top-ranked security officials in the line of fire.
The State of Texas confirmed its first Zika-related fatality in Harris County, shortly after an infant was born whose mother recently traveled to Latin America. This marks the second death in the United States.
Rio officials lost the keys to the Olympic Stadium days before the opening ceremony Friday.
A female firefighter working in Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Village woke up this week to a security guard sexually assaulting her as she slept, an incident bringing to the forefront once more Brazil’s high crime rate and incidents of rape specifically.
A month ago, Breitbart brought you a list of alarming unresolved problems in Rio de Janeiro in anticipation of this week’s Olympics Opening Ceremony. That ceremony is scheduled for tomorrow, and officials are still struggling to resolve problems that threaten not only embarrassment for Brazil, but the lives of those attending the Games.
Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters during a press conference with his Colombian counterpart that the United States is willing to consider removing the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) from the State Department’s terrorist organizations list. The removal
