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Mysterious Treasure And Jewelry Is Washing Up On A Small Beach In Venezuela

Mysterious Treasure And Jewelry Is Washing Up On A Small Beach In Venezuela

Jewelry and other precious artifacts have been washing ashore on a small beach in Venezuela, bringing hope and joy to impoverished residents of its nearby town. According to The New York Times, the discovery was first made this past September by fisherman Yolman Lares. The 25-year-old said he saw something glisten in the sand while […]

3y ago

Human Trafficking Raid In Brazil Frees 39 Slaves

Human Trafficking Raid In Brazil Frees 39 Slaves

Nearly 40 slaves have been rescued after being forced to work against their will in an illegal gold mine in Brazil. Modern day slavery remains a huge problem in many countries, and labor authorities have warned that the perpetrators are becoming more sophisticated in hiding their practices, despite human rights efforts. According to Al Jazeera, […]

3y ago

U.S. Prepared To Lift Sanctions On Venezuela In Support Of New Transitional Government

U.S. Prepared To Lift Sanctions On Venezuela In Support Of New Transitional Government

The U.S. announced a plan to support a new political path within Venezuela on March 31, according to the Associated Press. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo outlined a plan for a transitional government after Juan Guaidó, the Venezuelan opposition leader backed by the U.S., suggested a similar idea over the weekend. If the formation of […]

4y ago

U.S. Charges Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro With International Drug Trafficking

U.S. Charges Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro With International Drug Trafficking

On Thursday, March 26, the U.S. released indictments of drug crimes against the former president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, as well as 14 other current and former Venezuelan senior officials on the Department of Justice website. In addition to international drug trafficking, other charges include corruption, narco-terrorism, and carrying machine guns and other destructive […]

4y ago

A Massive Prison Break Has 75 Former Inmates On The Run In South America

A Massive Prison Break Has 75 Former Inmates On The Run In South America

At least 75 members of one of Brazil‘s most notorious gangs have just escaped a Paraguayan prison. The inmates escaped by digging a massive tunnel that was long enough to get past the prison walls. Moreover, the complexity of the plan has essentially confirmed that a number of prison guards were in on the plot, […]

4y ago

U.S. Accuses Russia Of Causing South American Unrest, As Riots Sweep Through The Continent

U.S. Accuses Russia Of Causing South American Unrest, As Riots Sweep Through The Continent

The U.S. is accusing the Russian Federation for the increase of riots that have been sweeping through South America. According to The New York Times, the State Department found that a high number of tweets inciting protests came from Twitter accounts based in Moscow. The findings come after Russia has been accused of trying to […]

4y ago

Venezuelan Military Blocks US-Backed Aid From Entering The Country

Venezuelan Military Blocks US-Backed Aid From Entering The Country

The United States and Canada respectively pledged $20 million and $53 million in humanitarian aid to Venezuela in order to fulfill the promise made by the opposition leader and disputed Interim President Juan Guaido. Venezuela is suffering from crippling shortages of food and medicine, aggravated by American sanctions and the now-disputed President Nicolas Maduro’s haphazard […]

5y ago

Bernie Sanders: ‘We Must Learn The Lessons Of The Past And Not Be In The Business Of Regime Change’

Bernie Sanders: ‘We Must Learn The Lessons Of The Past And Not Be In The Business Of Regime Change’

In a series of Twitter posts published Thursday, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to back a coup in Venezuela. “We must learn the lessons of the past and not be in the business of regime change or supporting coups — as we have in Chile, Guatemala, Brazil & the DR. The […]

5y ago

Mexico’s New Leftist Government Prepares Sale Of Former President’s Luxurious Plane

Mexico’s New Leftist Government Prepares Sale Of Former President’s Luxurious Plane

“We are selling all the planes and helicopters that the corrupt politicians used,” Mexico’s new President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told the crowd gathered at a rally in the city of Xalapa, announcing the decision to put up former president’s luxurious plane for sale, Reuters reports. According to the news agency, the announcement prompted a […]

5y ago

Brazil: Far-Right Candidate Outperforms Expectations

Brazil: Far-Right Candidate Outperforms Expectations

Brazil’s presidential election will be decided in a run-off between leftist Fernando Haddad and the right-winger Jair Bolsonaro, Reuters reports. Exceeding all expectations, Bolsonaro obtained 46.7 percent of the votes in Sunday’s first-round vote. Haddad, however, got only 28.37 percent. Bolsonaro, according to Haaretz, is known to speak fondly and nostalgically of Brazil’s military dictatorship, […]

5y ago

200-Year-Old Brazilian Museum Goes Up In Flames, Losing Centuries Of Knowledge

200-Year-Old Brazilian Museum Goes Up In Flames, Losing Centuries Of Knowledge

Last night, Brazil’s National Museum caught fire, resulting in massive destruction. It has not been determined how the fire started, but the museum was engulfed in flames in a matter of hours. Photos of the disaster have been posted online, and historians around the world are mourning the loss of the building and its exhibits. […]

5y ago

Brazil Saw 63,880 People Murdered In 2017, Breaking Its Own Record For Number Of Killings In A Single Year

Brazil Saw 63,880 People Murdered In 2017, Breaking Its Own Record For Number Of Killings In A Single Year

Tensions in Brazil have run high in recent years, and the country’s rate of crime is following the same trend. Political corruption, economic recession, police strikes, and prison riots have been the center of attention since last year, and the dust of these chaotic events still hasn’t settled. In a new report, crime in Brazil […]

5y ago

Ramba’s Flight: ‘The Last Circus Elephant Of Chile’ Is Looking For A Ride Home

Ramba’s Flight: ‘The Last Circus Elephant Of Chile’ Is Looking For A Ride Home

For 40 years, poor Ramba the elephant spent her days working in the circus, first in Argentina and later in Chile. For the past six years, she has been the only elephant living at a roadside zoo. Elephants are extremely social creatures, meant to live in tight-knit family units, but Ramba has not seen nor […]

6y ago

Salvador Allende And The U.S.-Backed Coup On The Other 9/11

Salvador Allende And The U.S.-Backed Coup On The Other 9/11

The coup d’état that overthrew Salvador Allende and the world’s first democratically-elected Marxist government came nearly 30 years before the 9/11 that most Americans associate with the date. Yet Chile’s own 9/11 also holds a link with the United States. One that is, for most Chileans, a dark stain on relations between the two countries. […]

6y ago

U.S. Military Says They Can’t Keep Up With The Amount Of Drugs Flowing Into The Country

U.S. Military Says They Can’t Keep Up With The Amount Of Drugs Flowing Into The Country

For some time, it has been known that drugs from out of the United States have been flowing in managing to get away from the Coast Guard, and now it appears that the military or the U.S. cannot keep up with the amount. For years, drugs have been coming in from various places, mostly from […]

7y ago

‘Pokemon Go’: Is Gen 2’s South America Region Exclusive The Only Geo-Exclusive?

‘Pokemon Go’: Is Gen 2’s South America Region Exclusive The Only Geo-Exclusive?

There is already a confirmed Pokemon Go region-exclusive for South America, and it is one of the more popular generation 2 Pokemon. The question remains, though, is it the only region exclusive being added? Pokemon Go released the second generation of Pokemon into its digital world just a few days ago, and the huge throngs […]

7y ago

Lenin Moreno Is The Last Bastion Of Latin America’s Left-Wing Pink Tide

Lenin Moreno Is The Last Bastion Of Latin America’s Left-Wing Pink Tide

Lenin Moreno came out with a triumphant 38 percent of the vote in the first round of Ecuador’s 2017 presidential elections on Sunday, just two points shy of the 40 percent that would have been required to make him president on the spot. Instead, Lenin will be continuing on the campaign trail for two more […]

7y ago

Greyhound Racing Banned In Argentina, But One Politician Calls Decision ‘Fascist’

Greyhound Racing Banned In Argentina, But One Politician Calls Decision ‘Fascist’

Argentina has banned greyhound racing, or carreras de galgos, with a new bill that was able to achieve relative unity in the deeply divided country’s Congress. On Thursday, Argentina’s lower house voted 132-17 to approve the bill which will put an end to greyhound racing in the country. The measure found near-universal support in the […]

7y ago

Colombian Referendum News: Vote Rejects FARC Peace Deal

Colombian Referendum News: Vote Rejects FARC Peace Deal

A historic Colombian referendum vote was rejected by Colombian citizens on Sunday, which would have ended the country’s decades-long struggle with its largest rebel militant group. The razor-thin defeat of the referendum leaves the future of the conflict tenuous and uncertain. The Colombian referendum would have ended a long, bitter conflict between the Colombian government […]

7y ago

Salvador Allende: One Of Thousands Of Victims Of ‘The Other 9/11’

Salvador Allende: One Of Thousands Of Victims Of ‘The Other 9/11’

The coup d’etat that overthrew Salvador Allende and his Marxist government came nearly 30 years before the 9/11 that most Americans associate with the date. But even for Chile, it will always hold a certain link with the United States, and for most of them, it’s a negative one. Salvador was declared an enemy of […]

7y ago

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