foreign policy
It took only two months. That’s the amount of time that elapsed from when Maurice Kamto, an African opposition leader who had been serving time, was released from prison and when he flew to the United States to meet with Democrats in positions of power at the State Department and the House of Representatives. Democrats […]
Members of Congress drew sharply different conclusions Wednesday after the Trump administration made its case that an imminent threat had justified the killing of a top Iranian military commander. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and CIA Director Gina Haspel held a classified briefing […]
President Trump declared that Iran “appears to be standing down,” in an address to the nation after Tuesday night's missile attack on two Iraqi bases housing U.S. military personnel. “Our great American forces are prepared for anything,” Trump in remarks from the Grand Foyer of the White House Wednesday morning. “Iran appears to be standing […]
"Such an outcome would be good for American fruit and vegetable farmers, good for American families, and good for the nation’s food security."
The U.S. has not accused Cuba's government of carrying out the attacks, but says it has not met its obligation to protect diplomats on its territory.
One of Maduro's henchmen is believed to have put out an assassination order out on Rubio earlier this year.
Trump’s travel restrictions need to be seen for what they are, and not for what many individuals think they are, a full ban on travel for all foreigners.
Like most Republicans who are running for elected office will say about immigration reform, combat veteran and double-amputee Brian Mast believes that in order for real immigration reforms to take place, the U.S. border needs to be secured. In a sit down interview with Mast this week, the married father of three, surprised me when […]
Back in 1961, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) opened a file on then 33-year-old Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, who they suspected of working with the communist Cuban regime, have now declassified and released to the Washington Post 137 pages of 24-year-long covert dossier of the high-profiled leftist. Garcia Marquez arrived in New York […]
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump's comments about resolving the "birthright citizenship" problem, has once again thrust illegal immigration (as if it never left) problem into the political limelight. During an exclusive interview with HISPOLITICA, Trump said that he believes that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution has bee "read wrong," and that the amendment was […]
Donald Trump took some time off the presidential campaign trail to talk to me about what else, Politics. In a phone interview with "The Donald," Trump said that he thinks Jeb Bush feels "entitled" to the Republican presidential nomination, and because he continues to best Bush in all of the national presidential polls, that is […]
Cuban-American U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D) has joined his colleague Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) in opposing President Obama's new nuclear deal with state sponsor of terrorism, Iran. Melendez, who faces corruption charges, may be pushing back against the Obama administration for bring federal charges against him. "If Iran is to acquire a nuclear bomb, it […]
I don't believe that anyone in the Cuban exile community who opposes President Obama's "normalization" of relations with communist Cuba, thought the administration would invite them to the historic U.S. flag-raising ceremony in Havana, Cuba later this week. And, let me just say, I highly doubt any of these Cuban exiles would even want to […]
Miami, FL-Hillary Clinton announced that she supported lifting the U.S. embargo against Cuba, and said that she would ask Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and the rest of the Congress, to lift the decades-long embargo. But while Clinton outline the reasons why the "failed" embargo needed to be lifted, Clinton also […]
Over the past 11 months, at least 8 people have been jailed in Venezuela, according to Fox News Latino. The arrests come as street confrontations between students demanding free speech and government forces have been raging for years. Fox News lists the arrested opposition: Lessi Marcano (48), Ginette Hernández (23), Leonel Sánchez (47), Víctor Ugas […]
Last week we saw a sight many thought they'd never see. The Cuban flag being raised in Washington DC, and hanging in the State Department's lobby signifies a huge, historical shift in US foreign policy. The embargo however remains. Now, as negotiations and diplomatic relations continue, Cuba is making some demands which they have made […]
Former Governor Jeb Bush becomes the first 2016 presidential candidate to call for Republicans to embrace the Hispanic and African-American communities. While Bush's position supporting pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrations is highly unpopular with the Republican voting base, his message of embracement of Hispanics is correct, because the long-standing Republican "outreach" message has proven […]
Texas junior senator and 2016 presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has introduced a bill in the Senate to rename the street that the Cuban embassy currently sits on, which is 16th st. NW to Oswaldo Paya st. Mr. Paya was a very famous Cuban dissident who dies in a mysterious car crash in 2012. In a […]
The Cuban-American congressional delegation from Miami, Florida, held a press conference denouncing the opening of the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba, as well as calling the new Cuban embassy in the United States as a " base" for the Cuban Intelligence Service. Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Carlos Curbelo, and Mario Diaz-Balart, all Republicans, each took turns […]
Junior Florida Senator and 2016 presidential hopeful Marco Rubio has dubber today, Monday, July 20th, 2015 as "Capitulation Monday". The title aims to lambast President Obama on the Iranian Nuclear deal and the official re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba. In a press release put out first thing Monday morning, the Senator says: “History will […]
Shortly after midnight on Monday, and after decades of oppression and human rights violations, the United States has all but pardoned communist Cuba for their past crimes by restoring full diplomatic relations between the two countries. The Cold War era stand off between the communist nation of Cuba and America has ended, as the Cuban […]
The Embargo may not have been lifted by Congress, but diplomatic relations with Cuba are now a reality. Speeches have been given, flags have been raised, embassies are working and freedom is on the march! According to an April 8th report, Obama enjoys an 80% approval rating in Cuba. So, if the Obama administration, and […]
After the historic deal struck yesterday by the Obama administration with the Islamic Sate of Iran, Senator, and 2016 presidential hopeful Marco Rubio was quick to hit back. “Based on what we know thus far, I believe that this deal undermines our national security. President Obama has consistently negotiated from a position of weakness, giving […]
The New York Times continues their unilateral assault against Senator and Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio with a recent story written from interviews conducted with Cubans on the Island of Cuba. Would you believe that everyone interviewed thinks Rubio to be the Anti-Christ? Rubio, who is considered to be in the top tier of Republican presidential candidates, […]
The Venezuela economy has been in a downward spiral for years now. But over the past year, the rate of inflation has skyrocketed. The Venezuelan currency, as a practical matter, is controlled by the government in a complex and nonsensical system of exchange controls. This has given birth to a huge black market for both […]
The backlash continues against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his "colorful" remarks about Mexico and the crime and immigration problem that it facilitates across the U.S. southern border, as Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney have all joined in on the anti-Trump political dog pile. Romney jabbed at Trump, saying that his remarks were […]
Bob Corker, who last year opposed the sanctions pushed by the US Senate against the Venezuelan government is right now in Venezuela for a "fact finding mission". The trip comes on the back of a State Department meeting with Diosdado Cabello in Haiti, as the Obama administration seeks to "thaw" diplomatic relations with the socialist […]
One of the U.S. spying secret admissions that originated from former NSA analyst Edward Snowden was that the government agency was keeping tabs on the Brazilian government. The news of the spying forced Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff to cancel a trip to Washington, D.C, and created a deep diplomatic rift between the two nations. Now […]
It's official. The Unites States will have an embassy in Havana, president Obama announced earlier today. Marco Rubio has fired back at the president in a press release, and yo can be sure he'll be talking about it on the campaign trail. The release by the senate office stated: “Throughout this entire negotiation, as the […]
