In their search for a foreign policy “win” for Vice President Kamala Harris,Foreign Policy magazinewants you to believe that she saved democracy in Guatemala while you weren’t looking. But the two of us have spoken at length with its former president in 2022, and he tells a very different story. Far from saving Guatemala, the...
Alberto Fujimori, whose decade-long presidency began with triumphs righting Peru’s economy and defeating a brutal insurgency only to end in a disgrace of autocratic excess that later sent him to prison, has died. He was 86. His death Wednesday in the capital, Lima, was announced by his daughter Keiko Fujimori in a post on X....
El Salvador’s military says the national police director, other high-ranking police officials and a fugitive banker were among nine people killed in a military helicopter crash in a rural part of the country. The cause of the crash on Sunday night is under investigation. It occurred after the banker, Manuel Coto, was captured in Honduras...
The United States seized a plane owned by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in the Dominican Republic, Fox News has confirmed. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) flew Maduro’s personal plane back to the United States Monday morning, when it landed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and is now in U.S. custody, a U.S. official told Fox News following...
A Venezuelan electoral official has denounced what he calls a “grave lack of transparency and veracity” in last month’s election results, rebuking authorities who declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner despite strong evidence to the contrary presented by his opponents and doubts from several foreign governments. Juan Carlos Delpino is one of five members of...
President Nicolás Maduro said he has ordered a 10-day block on access to X in Venezuela, accusing owner Elon Musk of using the social network to promote hatred after the country’s disputed presidential election. Associated Press journalists in Caracas found that by Thursday night posts had stopped loading on X on two private telephone services...
Paraguayan swimming star Luana Alonso created a stir when she decided to get an Olympic rings tattoo near her bikini line before the Paris Games and then retired from the sport at the age of 20 after failing to qualify for a medal. Alonso apparently stayed in the after she was eliminated from contention in...
Argentinian President Javier Milei has emerged as a powerful ally of the Venezuelan anti-government protests as international pressure mounts to award the recent presidential election to the opposition. Leaders from around the world, including the U.S., have cast doubt on Nicolas Maduro’s claim that he won the election, and protesters have clashed with police in...
The Biden/Harris administration has “super-charged” a “Lawful Pathways” program that has helped admit tens of thousands of people from Latin America. The Safe Mobility Office Initiative, launched in May 2023 and given expanded capacity this spring, has worked to fly tens of thousands of people to the U.S. through the refugee resettlement process, despite those...
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has bowed to pressure from protesters and neighboring countries alike and called for an audit of the recent presidential election while continuing to verbally spar with rival leaders such as Argentina’s Javier Milei. “The fraud carried out and perpetrated by the dictator Nicolás Maduro is nothing less than a Pyrrhic victory,”...
