Miami-Dade County government steps into foreign-policy territory on behalf of its Venezuelan community. Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez has led both efforts: a countywide donation drive to Venezuela & a crackdown in revoking business licenses tied to unauthorized commerce with Cuba
Since October 2025, Miami-Dade County Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez has been quietly revoking the operating licenses of businesses found doing unauthorized commerce with Cuba
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While Washington weighs a preliminary plan to help administer Venezuela’s earthquake reconstruction, Miami-Dade’s Venezuelan community has already delivered its own response
Trump confirms from the Oval Office that the U.S. is investigating reports of 300 Iranian drones stored in Cuba — warning Washington will act “in short order” if confirmed
U.S. finalized a 25% tariff on Brazilian goods, citing illegal Amazon deforestation, digital trade restrictions, and anti-corruption failures after a yearlong Section 301 investigation. Lula rejected the move as groundless and vows countermeasures
U.S. Justice Department charges Sinaloa’s sitting governor with conspiring with Los Chapitos to flood the United States with fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine. Nine other current & former officials are charged alongside him. One allegedly murdered a DEA source
Paraguay senator Celeste Amarilla under fire for racist rant against French striker Kylian Mbappé after France eliminates Paraguay 1-0 in the round of 16
At Colombia’s official World Cup send-off ceremony in Bogotá, captain James Rodríguez “snubs” Gustavo Petro's daughter Antonella — a three-second moment that went viral across Colombia as presidential election heads into its final weeks
Brazil records lowest homicide rate in over a decade — but extortion, cybercrime, police killings, and disappearances all rose in the same period, while PCC and CV cells expanded across 12 U.S. states
Nine arrests in a Chiapas massacre and a newly unsealed San Diego narcoterrorism indictment against a Tijuana-based Sinaloa lieutenant reveal two governments running parallel, uncoordinated cases against the same fractured cartel
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