Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her progressive House allies are threatening to run their more moderate Democrat colleagues out of office. Ocasio-Cortez warned her fellow Democrats on Thursday that those who side with Republicans will be facing a primary challenge, according to a new report. The intra-party rift came into clear view as it debated a […]
President Donald Trump is on his way back from Hanoi after he was unable to close on what was an anticipated nuclear agreement with North Korean President Kim Jon-un. All signs were pointing to the signing an agreement that would have relieved economic sanctions in exchange for North Korean nuclear disarmament, but the deal was […]
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos and his news team were briefly detained at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas by President Nicolas Maduro late yesterday before being officially deported from the country earlier today. Calling into a Univision special report, Ramos reported that he and five other colleagues were freed after conducting an interview with Maduro where […]
Ocasio-Cortez' is quite concerned about a global environmental environmental catastrophe that would bring about the end of the world.
A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday deliberated the legality of President Donald Trump's administration decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Legal teams on each side of the matter put forth arguments regarding the Trump administration's September 2017 decision to rescind DACA […]
Democrat presidential candidate President Bernie Sanders gave an interview to Telemundo's Jorge Ramos yesterday, and he may very well be regretting it- or perhaps not. Sanders was asked directly if National Assembly Leader /Interim President Juan Guaidó was the “legitimate president of Venezuela,” to which he remarked, “No, I think what has to happen right now—I […]
The bill would prohibit postsecondary institutions that receive federal funds from refusing to admit, enroll, or grant in-state tuition benefits to qualified students based on their immigration status and expand federal financial aid opportunities to DREAMers.
Cruz believes that El Chapo's confiscated money can be put to good use by building a border wall- making it much harder for drug traffickers to move marijuana, heroin, and other illegal drugs across the United States southern border.
If President Nicolas Maduro shares anything in common with U.S. President Donald Trump, it's this- they both believe in making borders impassable. Tuesday afternoon, the Venezuelan military barricaded a bridge at a key border crossing with Colombia, a direct affront to the U.S.-backed effort to bring humanitarian aid to untold thousands of Venezuelan people who […]
As the turmoil in Venezuela continues to crescendo, Russian President Vladimir Putin Russia is tightening its partnership with socialist President Nicolas Maduro in defiance of the growing coalition of support that has formed around Interim-President Juan Guaidó. Venezuela's diminishing finances under the Maduro regime have likely forced him to mortgage part of Venezuela's oil resources in exchange for financial and […]
Back on Jan. 23rd, U.S. President Donald Trump officially recognized Juan Guaidó as Venezuela's legitimate interim president and promised to "use the full weight of United States economic and diplomatic power to press for the restoration of Venezuelan democracy", and now other nations are following suit Ten European Union nations have followed the United States […]
On Thursday, Senator Marco Rubio issued a comment via his Twitter account that identified Noor Capital, a financial firm based in the United Arab Emirates as attempting to facilitate a gold transaction with Venezuelan authorities.
Multiple media outlets are covering the mysterious activity surrounding a Russian-based Boeing 777 aircraft operated by Nordwind Airlines that unexpectedly landed in Caracas, Venezuela from Moscow on Tuesday. Noticias Venezuela reported that the plane had made the trip with only an unidentified crew aboard. Nordwind Airlines does not offer direct Moscow-Caracas flights, and speculation is […]
Sunday's episode of Meet The Press featured a wide-ranging panel discussion of the increasing Hispanic population in the United States and the controversial plans to continue construction of a wall along the US-Mexico border. During one of the segments, veteran NBC television journalist Tom Brokaw made the observation that Hispanic immigrants need to make more […]
Does Congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez read Hispolitica? Saturday morning, the Congresswoman took to Twitter and tweeted the following- We here at HISPOLITICA certainly agree that independent outlets such as ours are vital to the maintenance of a healthy democracy. We might add that many mainstream media outlets are failing the public in this regard- far too […]
Yesterday, at a forum honoring Dr. Martin Luther King in New York City, Ocasio-Cortez was less focused on the core part of Dr. King's message and proceeded to identify a number of things that she believes are fundamental economic "wrongs" about the system our country currently enjoys that must be changed-
First-term Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been attracting a disproportionate amount of media attention during the past few months thanks to a string of controversial statements, many of which have been real head scratchers even within her own party. Not prone to measured remarks that don't attract the media's glare, Ocasio-Cortez is clearly not interested in […]
As Trump left the White House early Thursday morning, the president told reporters that he "probably" would declare a national emergency if he couldn't get Congress to agree to fund the wall.
Newly inaugurated Governor Ron DeSantis has begun his overhaul of the Florida Supreme Court with the selection of Judge Barbara Lagoa, who becomes the high court's first female Cuban-American justice. DeSantis will soon replace two more Supreme Court justices (three in total) who have each hit the mandatory retirement age of 70- Judges Barbara Pariente, Fred Lewis, and Peggy Quince.
