Latin America

Ex-President of Colombia Álvaro Uribe Vélez claimed Colombian Supreme Court Justice César Augusto Reyes, who arrested him, worked for USAID.

The president of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council, Leslie Voltaire, greeted 70 police officers from Guatemala and El Salvador at the airport in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday.

Jacques Audiard, director of the Netflix drug cartel musical “Emilia Pérez,” has disavowed his film’s transgender star, Karla Sofia Gascón for his past social media posts that disparaged Muslims, the Chinese, and black people, threatening to derail the actor’s campaign for Best Actress.

Venezuelan non-governmental organization Foro Penal on Wednesday published a list of the names of the six American men who returned home last week as a result of negotiations led by President Donald Trump.

The president of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, said the U.S. Department of State’s claim about Panama Canal fees was false.

The Department of State announced on Wednesday that United States government vessels would be allowed to travel through the Panama Canal without facing “charge fees.”

President of Argentina Javier Milei ordered the country to withdraw from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Wednesday.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s offer to take in convicted criminals, including convicted U.S. citizens, and house them in the country’s “mega-prison” would have to first be fully studied.

Netflix has dropped Karla Sofia Gascon, the star of “Emilia Perez,” from its high-profile Oscars campaign and distanced itself from the best actress nominee over her offensive social media posts, Hollywood trade outlets reported Tuesday.

The human rights organization Prisoners Defenders revealed in a report on Tuesday that 198 political prisoners Cuba claimed to free as a gesture of solidarity with the Vatican in January were already eligible for release from prison, either because they completed their sentences or were eligible for house arrest.

President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa announced on Monday that his country will impose a 27 percent tariff on Mexican goods to ensure “fair treatment” of Ecuadorian producers.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed a memorandum of understanding with El Salvador on Monday in which America agreed to help the country develop “civil nuclear energy,” both to fuel the national power grid and for scientific and medical development.

Six American citizens, unjustly detained by Venezuela’s socialist Maduro regime between September and October, returned home this weekend after negotiations led by President Donald Trump.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested in a meeting with Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino on Sunday that the administration of President Donald Trump may move to seize the Panama Canal on the grounds that the Panamanian government has violated the agreement that gives the country control over the waterway.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio succeeded in convincing Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino to opt out of renewing its agreement with China regarding the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

President Donald Trump praised Richard Grenell, Trump’s Presidential Envoy for Special Missions, after six Americans being held hostage in Venezuela were released.

Brazilian investigators said on Friday that the Jinjiang Group, a subsidiary of Chinese auto giant BYD contracted to build a factory in Brazil, pressured Chinese workers to sign abusive contracts that treated them as slaves.

Colombian Army officials found weapons belonging to Venezuela’s National Bolivarian Armed Forces (FANB) in a camp of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Marxist terrorist group, local outlets reported on Thursday.

President José Raúl Mulino of Panama told reporters on Thursday that any negotiation to return the Panama Canal to American control was “impossible” and that he could “not negotiate” on the issue, as it was a matter of the core sovereignty of the country.

Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro called for Colombians illegally in the United States to return “as soon as possible.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Karla Sofía Gascón, the Oscar-nominated trans actor and star of the movie “Emilia Pérez,” is apologizing for her old posts on social media that denigrated Islam and that called George Floyd “a drug addict and a hustler.”

Cuba’s communist regime on Wednesday rejected a plan by President Donald Trump to use the American military base at Guantánamo Bay to house illegal migrants slated for deportation.

The Oscar race for best actress is getting nasty, with Karla Sofia Gascón — the first transgender performer ever nominated for an Academy Award — accusing the team behind a rival nominee of launching a smear campaign.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro said on Wednesday that he will stop using Twitter (or “X”) after he caused an hours-long diplomatic crisis with the United States by refusing to accept a deportation flight and disparaging Colombia’s longtime ally in a post published at nearly 4:00 a.m. local time.

China’s public response to the deportation fight between President Donald Trump and Colombian President Petro Gustavo seemed oddly muted early this week, but that might have been because Beijing already had a man in Bogota working the political angle.

Far-left President of Honduras Xiomara Castro canceled a meeting scheduled for Thursday of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to discuss President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal migrants in the United States, citing a “lack of consensus” among member states.

Conservative former President of Colombia Álvaro Uribe Vélez helped defuse a short-lived diplomatic crisis between Colombia and the United States caused by far-left President Gustavo Petro on Sunday, The New York Times reported on Monday.

A crowd of over 1,000 Cuban-Americans and supporters of the anti-communist cause rallied in front of the White House on Tuesday in support of President Donald Trump’s Cuba policies and urging him to take more stringent action to contain the malicious influence of the Castro regime.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro on Monday refuted claims that he was in a state of inebriation when he published a late-night social media message that caused a short-lived diplomatic crisis with the United States on Sunday.

Brazil’s Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned the head of the U.S. embassy in Brasilia Gabriel Escobar to demand explanations on the “degrading treatment” that a group of 88 Brazilian deportees were allegedly subjected to, local outlets reported.

People from all over Colombia “have united” in support of President Donald Trump, Colombia-born U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) told Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on The Alex Marlow Show.

President Trump’s tariff threat against Colombia demonstrated the power of economic leverage wielded with precision.

Far-left President of Honduras Xiomara Castro on Sunday called for an emergency meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) later this week to discuss President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal migrants in the United States.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Sunday retweeted a post from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt that essentially declared President Donald Trump’s absolute victory in the showdown over Colombian deportees. Petro deleted his retweet a few hours later.

This pathetic culture of ours marches on with the news that Best Actress nominee Fernanda Torres has been forced to apologize for a 17-year-old blackface skit.