Hispolitica
Cuba doesn't yet have an embassy in they U.S., but that hasn't stopped the Swiss government from serving as a protector of the communist country from the United States, and facilitating the groundwork for future Cuban embassy in Washington, D.C. The Swiss embassy, which houses Cuba's Interest Section, erected a mast outside its doors in […]
On Wednesday the FARC continue its attacks on Colombia's fragile infrastructure despite negotiations with the Santos administration. Two separate attacks left three dead and over half a million people with out power. Less than two weeks ago, FARC rebels blew up energy towers in southwestern Colombia. Adriaan Alsema of ColombiaReports.com writes of the most recent attack: […]
The Chavista government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has blocked former Prime Minister of Spain, Felipe Gonzalez, from visiting with that governments jailed opposition leaders, Leopoldo Lopez and Daniel Ceballos. Juan Carlos Gutiérrez, attorney for the opposition leader Leopoldo López, told EFE that González had asked permission to visit López and another defendant, Daniel Ceballos. […]
Less than a week after Venezuela was awarded by the UN's FAO for "helping to eradicate hunger", the world was shown exactly how hungry and desperate most Venezuelans are. After a Nestle truck carrying cereal and condensed milk wrecked on the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho highway, leaving three injured and one dead, people rushed to the accident […]
In the middle of all of the FIFA scandals, there is still World Cup Soccer to be played. This year it's the women's turn. The tournament which is projected to be dominated by favorites Germany, defending champions Japan, and perennial power house USA, is one where the hispanic countries are hoping to make a big […]
So much is made about immigration and the hispanic vote. However, historically education has always been the most important issue for hispanics in the United States, even in the 2012 election. So if the hispanic vote is really all that important in 2016, and the democrats cannot with without it, are they on the right […]
The Obama administration has had the controversial DACA and DAPA programs, which help illegal immigrants escape the fear of deportation, on hold since a judge ruled back in February that the programs should not move forward while the ongoing 26-state lawsuit proceeds. The hiring of 3,100 DHS employees, who were to be housed in a […]
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization has awarded Venezuela special recognition in its efforts to eradicate hunger. The award comes at an interesting time when Venezuelans by the millions are facing severe food and medicine shortages in the economically ravaged nation. Venezuelan Vice-President Jorge Arreaza accepted the award undocumented that the "Venezuelan Revolution" has invested […]
It was only a matter of time until the New York times began the attacks on GOP candidates and their families. Their first target, Marco Rubio's wife. In an article released today, The Rubios are criticized for having 17 traffic violations between them. Now, if a presidential candidate had 17 traffic violations since 1997, that may […]
As the Obama administration barrels toward its end-around on the Cuban embargo, The House of Representatives today made it much harder for the president to formally re-establish diplomatic relations with the communist dictatorship. The State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations voted today to prohibit a State Department request […]
You've hear the old-tired line ever since the 2008 election. "Republicans need to appeal to youth and minorities", candidates on the GOP side have tried anything and everything, except something that may actually work. They've launched cool websites with old policies on them, they have put young kids and minorities on TV to represent their […]
Congress' most ardent supporter of comprehensive immigration reform seems to have declared open war on Texas. Yesterday, on the floor of the House of Representatives, Gutierrez made a statement regarding the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals' split decision on US v. Texas, in which 26 states are suing the federal government and trying to delay […]
When you visit the website of the Spanish-language TV network Univision, the issue that the network solely covers, and in some cases promotes, is that of immigration. While immigration is the hot top topic issue that grabs all the headlines when it comes to Hispanic matters, the two issues that are most important to Hispanics […]
Yesterday, Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro linked the popular former president of Colombia, and fierce political rival of Hugo Chaves, Alvaro Uribe, to the murder of Venezuelan representative Robert Sierra. Sierra was assassinated in 2014, and Maduro in claiming that Julio Velez, right hand man to the former president, was the intellectual author of the murder. […]
If you thought the 2016 GOP primary was a circus act, wait until you get a load of the 2015 Mexican parliamentary and local elections. Mexican president, Enrique Pena Nieto has characterized the June 7th Elections as a “referendum on his administration”. So what will it say about the Nieto administration if a circus clown […]
For those of you who are thinking “hmmmm Ted Cruz is the perfect candidate, he can even win over Hispanics!”, tread lightly. Now, don’t get me wrong, I'm a fan of Ted's. However, there is a very important factor that will detract many many hispanics from voting for him. Just last night, my own mother was […]
The month of June began with yet another massive protest in Venezuela against what citizens are calling a "State of Tyranny". Yesterday morning the city of San Cristobal in the state of Tachira woke up to find a complete halt of all public transport. They did not simply park their cabs and busses and not […]
In perhaps one of the most controversial foreign policy decisions of the 21st century, President Obama has made unprecedented moves in establishing diplomatic relationships with the Cuban government. GQ Magazine has jumped right on board. In GQ’s June 2015 issue, they proudly feature a 14-page photo spread showing Cuban-American actor Bobby Cannavale and super model […]
Here is yet another case for sealing the U.S. border with Mexico, and enforcing existing immigration laws. Two members of the notorious MS-13 gang have been deported back to their native El Salvador to face a murder charge, of which they are accused of beating a man to death with a baseball bat. Interpol took […]
As if Obama and Hillary had not made the leftist regimes in Latin America happy enough yet, the rank and file of the Democrat party are giving the Castro brothers and their allies even more hope. Newly minted candidates Martin O'Malley and self avowed socialist Bernie Sanders are drawing overflow crowds to their campaign events […]
One of Colombia's mid-sized cities, Buenaventura, which is situated in the southwest section of that country, had its lights turned off, again. According to Univision, It wasn't that the city failed to pay its electric bill, rather the city lost power after another attack against a electrical tower by the terrorist group, FARC. Colombian's military […]
Just days after Marco Rubio's opponent in the GOP presidential primary, Rand Paul, made a stand on the Senate floor against NSA spying, the junior senator from Florida may be planning a filibuster of his very own. Today, in a press release from Rubio's senate office in Washington DC, the senator pledged to block the […]
Just one day after Barack Obama officially removed Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, Venezuelan's all over the world gathered to protest the repression of their rights and political imprisonments in the country that is Cuba's closest ally. Exiled Venezuelan political leaders took to a hastily made stage in from of the statue […]
On Tuesday the bill aimed at overturning President Obama's executive actions on immigration was blocked in the Senate. A majority of the Senate Republicans voted 51-48 to proceed with the bill from the House. As for the Senate Democrats, they voted against considering the bill thus leaving the Republicans short of the 6o votes they needed […]
America's Forum on NewsMaxTV featured our Managing Editor, Javier Manjarres and Host of The Good Fight, Ben Wikler. They debated the White House's weak response in regards to the radical terrorist attacks in Paris and the immigration vote in the House yesterday. The passed bill would defund President Obama's dictator immigration bill. When it came […]
Today the House passed a bill that will block funding for President Obama's illegal immigration orders. The measure passed in a 236-191 vote with 10 Republicans voting against it. This is the first action by Republicans in a high-stakes battle over the President's executive action to defer deportations for the millions of people who entered […]
With a possible presidential run in the future for Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) he is trying to backpedal from his previous position on immigration reform. If the latest election taught us anything it was American's do not want immigration reform and Rubio got the message loud and clear. His new book "American Dreams" comes out […]
President Obama had announced on December 17, 53 political prisoners from Cuba would be liberated as part of negotiations with Castro. Today, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) highlighted the administration's inability to provide clarity on the fate of the prisoners. He also continued to show his disapproval of President Obama's effort to normalize relations with […]
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) called out President Obama about his amnesty bill on Fox News. He agreed with the host, Megyn Kelly, when she said the President is talking out of both sides of his mouth when he tells others he did not say it was unconstitutional for him to pass amnesty reform by way […]
Senator Ted Cruz (R-FL) released a powerful video today in an effort to stop illegal amnesty. He started off his speech by saying: We are today facing a full fledged constitutional crisis. Twenty-two times President Obama admitted he has no constitutional authority to unilaterally grant amnesty. Cruz also called President Obama a "monarch" who is […]
Prior to election the polls had Crist and Scott neck-and-neck and Election Day definitely was a shock to the Crist campaign but there always has to be a winner and a loser. What is fascinating is clearing off the rubble afterwards and seeing what happened. That is exactly what OnMessage, Inc. did. They surveyed one […]
Our managing editor, Javier Manjarres, was on NewsMaxTV's America's Forum today along with the co-host of Steele and Ungar, Rick Ungar. They were discussing President Obama's threats to use executive action in order to pass amnesty reform. When Manjarres was asked if the President should be moving forward with any type of executive order on […]
The Republican Party of Florida released their 10th Spanish-language ad for Governor Rick Scott today. The ad features Senator Marco Rubio and is entitled "Yo Voto" or "I Vote" in English. Senator Rubio knows first-hand that Charlie Crist does not have solutions for Florida's toughest problems. He also knows a vote for Charlie Crist is […]
The Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) launched a new Spanish-language TV ad entitled "Resultados" for Governor Rick Scott. The thirty one second ad features former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and focuses on the main message of the campaign which is "results." Translation: _______________________________________________________________________________ THE AD GOVERNOR JEB BUSH: In my experience as Governor, I found that […]
On Tuesday evening Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fl) called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to schedule a vote on S. 2142, otherwise known as the Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014. This bill authorizes sanctions on individuals involved in serious human rights violations against the peaceful demonstrators in Venezuela. […]
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) told President Obama in a letter he is not approaching immigration reform properly. Whereas President Obama wants sweeping executive action to grant legal status to the millions of illegal immigrants currently residing in the United States, Senator Rubio wants the President to work with Congress to achieve reform. In his letter […]
