Supporters of socialist president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, beat opposition legislator Julio Borges with metal sticks in broad daylight Thursday, causing multiple nose fractures. They also injured several others before the nation’s National Electoral Council, where opposition leaders had convened urging the council to speed up the verification process for a recall on their president.
A group of masked radical leftists broke into the Church of National Gratitude in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, dragging the church’s oversized crucifix into the street and breaking it into pieces during a student protest.
Venezuela is imposing a new government food redistribution system in its capital, Caracas, that requires locals to acquire food from Socialist Party members, a move triggering national outrage as anti-socialist activists say the Party will use food to coerce citizens into supporting it.
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has determined that Venezuela, which has refused to cooperate with the United States’ antiterrorism efforts in the region for nearly a decade, remains a “permissive environment” that promotes ideological and financial support for terrorist organizations, namely Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah.
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – He surfs, dances in carnivals and can sound more revolutionary than royal, but Prince Dom Joao de Orleans e Braganca is serious about restoring the monarchy to save Brazil.
Poor Venezuelans in the center of the nation’s capital, Caracas, attempted to storm the nation’s presidential palace Thursday, chanting, “We want food” after Bolivarian National Guard soldiers appeared to steal the contents of a shipment of rice and sugar to a market where civilians had been waiting in line for hours.
Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro formally endorsed “revolutionary friend” Bernie Sanders for president during a broadcast Tuesday night, suggesting that Sanders would win in a landslide “if the election were free.”
A Brazilian 16-year-old girl whose rape at the hands of 33 men surfaced in a Facebook video last week says she is receiving death threats for seeking police help, even as the Rio de Janeiro police chief himself refused to believe her story.
An armed gang stormed the homes of eleven men and boys in northwest Venezuela on Saturday, shooting them dead in their yards. The massacre, involving three minors and a Colombian national, has brought to light once again the Venezuelan government’s seeming inability to deter the violent crime that has made it the world’s most violent country not currently at war.
150 public health experts are calling on the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Olympic Commission (IOC) to postpone or relocate the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in response to the outbreak of Zika virus in that city that has infected thousands and caused thousands of cases of birth defects in infants.
Iran’s Lebanese terrorist proxy, Hezbollah, finds itself in dire financial straits after years of sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies, a top U.S. Department of Treasury official told lawmakers this week.
Brazil’s interim President Michel Temer has called an emergency cabinet meeting to address what many are calling an out-of-control nationwide rape epidemic, made especially acute by video and photos surfacing on social media of 33 men gang-raping a 16-year-old girl in Rio de Janeiro.
A mob of starved Venezuelan residents in central Carabobo state stopped a truck full of powdered milk Monday night, looting its contents and setting parts of the truck on fire. Incidents like this, many caught on video, are occurring on a daily basis in the socialist nation as the government struggles to subdue protesters.
A spokesperson for Coca-Cola confirmed Monday that the corporate giant would stop making its signature beverage in Venezuela, as the nation’s sugar shortage makes it impossible to continue production.
Fernando Collor de Mello knows the Brazilian impeachment process well. In 1992, as president, he faced impeachment proceedings against him for alleged corrupt activity. He stepped down before the Senate could vote him out, has returned as a senator, and voted “yes” to impeach now ex-president Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday.
Brazil’s new president Michel Temer promised to return trust and “confidence” in the executive government to the Brazilian people in his first speech as president, shortly after Dilma Rousseff was informed that her impeachment was official and she would be forced to step down.
The “Bolivarian Revolution” is facing the biggest challenge in its history, as Latin America’s impoverished people turn on their socialist leaders. With Dilma Rousseff out as Brazil’s president and a recall effort started on Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, Cuba stands to lose friendships it has taken decades to cultivate in the region.
The Venezuelan opposition has begun a process to recall socialist President Nicolás Maduro, one that has outraged Venezuelans as the government stalls verifying the signatures to allow the process to go on. Thousands took to the streets Wednesday to demand Maduro address the recall effort properly, triggering widespread police violence.
The Senate of Brazil has temporarily deposed President Dilma Rousseff, replacing her for 180 days with her vice president until her impeachment trial concludes.
Blasting the World Health Organization’s (WHO) silence on the Zika virus in Latin America as “deplorable, incompetent and dangerous,” professor Amir Attaran writes in the Harvard Public Health Review that there is no way to continue with the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on schedule without exposing millions to the threat of contracting Zika virus.
After a tumultuous 24 hours and a failed attempted at halting the process, Brazil’s Senate will vote Wednesday on whether to impeach socialist President Dilma Rousseff.
From the reports coming out of the country, it can be easy to dismiss the Brazilian people as having reached a point of such disappointment with their government that no politician will be able to win them over for a generation.
Brazil’s Supreme Court has suspended the mandate of Eduardo Cunha, the president of the lower chamber of Congress, indefinitely. Cunha was the force behind organizing a push in the House of Representatives to impeach President Dilma Rousseff.
A policy dispute in Peru’s presidential runoff election turned racially insensitive this week when the campaign advisor for candidate Pedro Pablo Kuczynski called opposing candidate Keiko Fujimori — a Japanese-Peruvian — a “chinawoman” and said her criticism of his policies was because “her eyes have gotten too wrinkly and she can’t read very well.”
Rosmit Mantilla, an LGBT activist and elected lawmaker for Venezuela’s western Táchira state, marked his second year imprisoned in a secret police facility after being arrested for alleged illicit activity against the socialist regime. He has still not been convicted of any crime.
Brazil’s Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot has formally requested the Supreme Court to allow him to open a corruption investigation against President Dilma Rousseff, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the nation’s attorney general, José Eduardo Cardozo.
Medical experts are warning that new studies show the Zika virus is capable not only of producing in unborn children the brain defect microcephaly, but a variety of severe neurological deformities that could impair a child in unpredictable ways.
A Colombian soldier who participated in the 2003 looting of buried savings hidden by the FARC terrorist group has been captured, and is pleading to be placed in a prison with women, as he used some of the money stolen from the crime scene for a sex change.
The leaders of the world’s wealthiest non-jihadist terrorist organization, the FARC, marched openly alongside thousands forced to carry posters of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro in Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution for Marxist International Workers’ Day celebrations Sunday.
The government of Venezuela will not be paying employees of the National Assembly, including the legislators who work there. The socialist government has refused to appropriate funds for their salaries since the pro-democracy opposition swept legislative elections in December.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has once again called the impeachment process against her a sexist “coup,” lamenting that she will be “very sad” if she cannot attend the Summer Olympics in her country as head of state due to accusations of financial misrepresentation against her.
Brazil confirms this week it has documented a staggering 91,387 cases of Zika in 2016, with more than 7,000 cases being pregnant women. The World Health Organization (WHO) warns the number of Zika cases globally is set to increase, though cooling temperatures may finally lower the rates of infection in Brazil itself.
The mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, has given his first interview since the deadly collapse of a bridge built for the 2016 Summer Olympics, attempting to reassure natives and tourists alike that the Olympics will be safe and his team will “double-check” every detail.
Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolás Maduro has ordered all government employees to come into work only on Mondays and Tuesdays, enraging parents who want their children to go to school and opposition members who have deemed the decree “immoral.”
As Ecuador struggles to organize reconstruction efforts following a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that was felt nationwide earlier this month, socialist President Rafael Correa has announced forced salary contributions from the nation’s middle class and a major tax spike.
A disturbing video of a crowd physically beating each other to get at a select few bags of onions outside a supermarket in Venezuela highlights the struggle the average Venezuelan must endure to keep his or her family fed in the increasingly impoverished socialist nation.
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – President Dilma Rousseff voiced confidence Friday that Brazil’s people will “be able to prevent any setbacks” to democracy as she battles a bid to impeach her. “Brazil is a great country endowed with a
The government of Cuba, after weeks of pressure from pro-freedom activists and a lawsuit against corporate giant Carnival Cruise, will make an exception to a law banning U.S. citizens born in Cuba from landing on the island by sea. Passengers aboard Carnival’s Fathom cruise line will be the beneficiaries of that policy change.
Cuban state media reported Tuesday that Fidel Castro, the soon-to-be-90-year-old former dictator of the island, spoke before the assembled Communist Party Congress in Havana to warn supporters that his death may soon be near.
A Brazilian federal prosecutor tells Reuters that multiple projects planned for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro are under investigation for being the objects of corruption schemes, another wrench in an increasingly chaotic lead-up to the opening ceremonies in August.
