New State Department report on Cuba has revived a diplomatically delicate question for Mexico: why hasn’t it expelled Russian intelligence officers still operating under diplomatic cover? President Sheinbaum addressed the matter at her July 20 press conference
In Buenos Aires, fans clashed with riot police after Argentina’s extra-time World Cup final loss as new State Department report targets Cuba and Venezuela’s political transition begins to take place
Six months after Maduro’s capture, Venezuela’s political transition is finally taking shape — built on a joint reconciliation agenda between the country’s two rival National Assemblies, backed by Washington — with María Corina Machado on the sidelines — for now
A newly published 100-page State Department report, “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” and Secretary Rubio’s speech at a global counterterrorism ministerial formalize an argument the administration has been building for months — and Cuba is in the crosshairs
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
U.S. finalize 25% tariff on Brazil over deforestation & trade practices. In Peru, a renewed state of emergency in five Pisco districts, and in Venezuela, an unapproved U.S. plan to send 3,000 civilian technicians & $3 billion to administer post-earthquake reconstruction
U.S. weighs a preliminary, unapproved plan to send roughly 3,000 civilian technicians & nearly $3 billion to Venezuela — coordinating earthquake reconstruction while managing a political transition away from Chavismo
Peru declares fresh 60-day state of emergency across five Pisco districts, citing homicides and extortion — the province’s second such declaration this year
Two stories this week capture the uneven state of the U.S.-led fight against Latin American drug trafficking. Nine arrests in a Chiapas massacre and San Diego narcoterrorism indictment, while at sea, the U.S. military’s boat-strike campaign has gone quiet for the first time in nearly a year
It’s been over three weeks since the U.S. military’s last strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat — the longest pause since the campaign began. Has the campaign actually slowed the flow of drugs into the United States, or just adapted the cartels around it?
Trump warns the U.S. will “take care of it” if Iran has stationed drones inside of Cuba as a 4.8-billion-peso lease scandal at Mexico’s state-run PEMEX oil company hands U.S. trade negotiators fresh ammunition days before critical USMCA talks
