Machado’s public break with U.S.-backed Venezuela transition, Brazil & Argentina’s diplomatic rupture ahead of Brazil’s tight election, and Díaz-Canel’s “genocide” comparison amid Cuba’s blackouts
Cuba’s Díaz-Canel compares U.S. officials to Nazis, accuses Washington of “genocide,” as blackouts stretch past 30 hours in Havana and U.S. pressure — sanctions, a new State Department report — continues to mount
Brazil recalls ambassador to Argentina after President Milei calls Lula a “convict” and a “thief” and a Supreme Court justice “bald trash” following a court decision denying Milei’s request to visit the imprisoned Jair Bolsonaro. International feud intensifies a month before major election
Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara arrived in exile in Miami after five years in prison as new census data reveals Miami as the only major Hispanic metro where Spanish retention is rising rather than fading
Peru’s economy is expanding on record gold & copper prices, even as an extortion crisis threatens law & order. In Puerto Rico, a wave of migrant interdictions this month reflects a quieter economic story
Federal agents apprehend 37 undocumented migrants in a single day off Puerto Rico, part of a pattern of maritime interdictions this year. The deeper story is low-skilled workers leaving the island in large numbers as low-wage migrant labor move in to fill the gap
House of Representatives attaches the SAVE America Act to $1.15 trillion defense authorization act in a 216-212 vote, its second major push this year after an earlier version stalled in the Senate
Nicolás Maduro’s federal narco-terrorism trial now set for June 2027 — a case proceeding as Washington warms ties with Venezuela. Meanwhile, in Colombia’s Catatumbo region, renewed fighting between ELN & FARC dissidents has confined residents & displaced thousands more
Renewed fighting between the ELN and FARC dissidents in Colombia's Catatumbo region has once again confined residents, damaged water infrastructure, and forced the cancellation of independence-day events in Tibú
In Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega declares the country will never hold elections again. In Mexico, a new State Department report revives uncomfortable questions about Russian intelligence agents in Mexico, and a new security alliance between Bogotá & Washington
Colombia’s incoming government has agreed to a revamped security arrangement with Washington before president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella has even been sworn in — a deliberate revival of the 2004 Uribe-era counter-guerrilla program’s branding
