The Communist Party of Cuba thanked its counterpart in China on Tuesday for pressuring the administration of President Joe Biden to invite Cuba to next week’s Summit of the Americas, an event technically reserved for democracies.
U.S. State Department official Kevin O’Reilly, coordinator of the Summit of the Americas scheduled to begin on June 6, said on Thursday that a final decision has been made to exclude Venezuela and Nicaragua. The Biden administration is still struggling to decide whether Cuba will be invited.
A Catholic bishop named Rolando Álvarez remained on an indefinite fast for the seventh straight day on Thursday as part of his protest against persecution by Nicaragua’s communist government, the Latin American news site Infobae reported.
The Biden administration has reportedly invited Spain to attend the Summit of the Americas, scheduled next month in Los Angeles. The summit was already controversial in Latin America because the authoritarian regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua were not invited to attend. The invitation to former regional colonial power Spain could become a further irritation.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Wang Yi spent much of the weekend calling up senior officials in Latin America to discuss dictator Xi Jinping’s vague “global security initiative,” the South China Morning Post observed on Sunday, in what appeared to be an effort to bolster Beijing’s profile in the Western Hemisphere.
President Joe Biden’s Cuban-born border chief Alejandro Mayorkas is welcoming a massive Cuban migration into the United States, just as Cuba’s communist government is letting pro-democracy protestors leave the island prison.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) warned during a Congressional hearing on Thursday that China is moving to capitalize on a severe “economic downturn” in Latin America partially fueled by Chinese coronavirus lockdowns to expand its influence there.
The Vatican registered its intense displeasure Saturday with the decision of the Nicaraguan government to deport Pope Francis’ apostolic nuncio in Managua.
The Communist Party of Cuba, the Sandinista dictatorship of Nicaragua, and socialist Venezuela have expressed effusive support for Russia and its “legitimate security” interests in the past week in response to Vladimir Putin’s decision to begin a full military assault on Ukraine.
Vice President Kamala Harris left for Honduras on Thursday to attend the inauguration of Xiomara Castro, the far-left radical who will be sworn in as the country’s first female president.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin spent much of this month calling the leaders of allied communist nations in Latin America to discuss “boosting strategic cooperation in all fields,” giving Moscow enhanced leverage in the Western Hemisphere as tensions with Washington mount.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday celebrated the inauguration of leftist dictator Daniel Ortega – beginning his fourth term as president of Nicaragua after a rigged election denounced by worldwide democracy activists and the Organization of American States – as a big victory for China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
A failed illegal migrant with a criminal record and deportation order served against her was discovered at the Swedish PM’s home.
El Salvador allowed two Cuban reporters to enter the Central American country on Wednesday after the men said they learned they would be denied entry to Nicaragua, their intended destination, while on a layover at an airport outside San Salvador on Tuesday, El Salvador’s General Directorate of Migration confirmed.
NORMANDY, Texas — Border Patrol agents arrested 158 migrants crossing near this small West Texas town on Monday. The group was comprised of mostly Nicaraguan migrants who surrendered to authorities after walking up from the Rio Grande.
Sandinista dictator Daniel Ortega declared victory on Monday in a presidential race the head of the Organization of American States (OAS) decried as the “worst election possible – marred by the arrest of all other viable candidates, ban on reputable election observers, and widespread reports of violence.
The U.S. government’s intervention in foreign countries leaves behind “death” and “scars,” Cuban leader Miguel Marion Diaz-Canel Bermudez said on Thursday at the 76th session of the U.N. General Assembly.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michele Bachelet presented an oral report to the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday in which she accused Nicaragua’s ruling government of detaining political opponents in inhumane circumstances ahead of the country’s general election in November, VOA reported Tuesday.
Nicaraguan Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes has responded to recent attacks by the wife of dictator Daniel Ortega, reminding the faithful that “ideologies” and “governments pass, but the Church remains.”
The EU brought sanctions on Nicaraguan senior officials accused of serious human rights violations or undermining democracy.
Russian “support” is “requested now more than ever” in Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said Wednesday.
U.S. border authorities reunited a Nicaraguan boy rescued by U.S. Border Patrol nearly two months ago after smugglers abandoned him.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio lambasted President Joe Biden’s Wednesday speech to a joint session of Congress for ignoring the ongoing crisis generated by regimes in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, all ran by leftist dictators.
President-elect Joe Biden is promising to aid Central American countries — but he is also promising to extract more of their valuable young workers and consumers for exploitation inside the United States via the semi-official “Hunger Games” obstacle course between migrants’ homes and U.S. jobs.
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.
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.
The gathering for the “Anti-communist and Anti-socialist Caravan for Freedom and Democracy” took place on October 10, 2020, at Magic City Casino.
Police in Miami, Florida, estimated on Saturday that 30,000 vehicles joined a caravan expressing rejection of communism, socialism, and leftist totalitarian ideologies – an event of historic size and diversity, organizer Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat told Breitbart News.
On October 10, 2020, at 9:30 a.m., cars will gather in two of the parking lots of Magic City Casino in a central area in Miami to carry out a caravan of vehicles protesting over the growing presence of communist and socialist ideology in the United States and the Western Hemisphere.
A three-judge panel in California’s Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals says President Donald Trump can end the temporary amnesty provided to roughly 300,000 migrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan.
Multiple reports have surfaced in the past week of communists allied with the Sandinista movement in Nicaragua, the chavista regime in Venezuela, and other Latin American leftists surfacing at protests and riots allegedly meant to condemn American police brutality.
CLAIM: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) claimed during Tuesday night’s Democrat debate that he has “opposed authoritarianism all over the world.”
The archbishop of Managua demanded Sunday that the Ortega government lift a block on paper and other raw materials from the opposition newspaper La Prensa.
Left-wing leaders and across Latin America expressed condemnation of President Trump and warned of incoming war after the failed Iran missile attack.
The Archdiocese of Managua has released a New Year’s message calling for national elections to allow for a “change of course” for the country, which has suffered under “totalitarian regimes.”
A mob of backers of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega stormed a parish church on Thursday, interrupting Mass and striking members of the faithful, amidst mounting tensions over politically motivated arrests.
A police siege of the Catholic Cathedral in Managua, Nicaragua, ended on Wednesday after a mob loyal to Communist dictator Daniel Ortega broke into the building and attacked opposition hunger strikers.
The Marxist regime in Nicaragua is persecuting members and leaders of the Catholic Church and committing “murders and crimes against humanity” over a year since pro-democracy protests began there, a bishop in the country told Breitbart News.
Leaders of Latin America’s remaining leftist regimes met in Caracas, Venezuela, this weekend to discuss their continued survival following the continent’s significant shift rightwards in response to the failure of socialist experiments.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif traveled to Latin America this week to meet with left-wing leaders in Bolivia, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, seeking to bolster diplomatic relations amid increasing isolation from the international community.
