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International news with a U.S. political angle: Latin America, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela and world events that affect American policy.
World leaders and officials sent their best wishes to President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump on Friday for a swift recovery after he announced early Friday morning that the First couple tested positive for COVID-19. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted that he and his wife Sara, along with "millions of Israelis" are wishing […]
Ahead of Florida voting on, where millions of Cuban immigrants currently reside, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was asked once again during Sunday’s Democratic debate about his previous remarks praising Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s literacy programs. “I have opposed authoritarianism, whether it’s in Cuba, whether it’s in Saudi Arabia, whether it’s in China, whether it’s in […]
Rubio reflects on U.S. ally Cameroon’s war on terror, need to resist China and Russia
By Mona Salama President Trump unveiled his long-awaited Middle East peace vision Tuesday, calling for the creation of an independent Palestine state with its capital in East Jerusalem, while recognizing Israeli sovereignty over West Bank settlements. "My vision provides a win win solution for both sides," Trump said, standing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden accused President at Tuesday night's Democratic presidential debate of “flat-out” lying about the justification for killing Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. “What's happened is, now that he's gone ahead, the president, and started this whole process moving,” Biden said. “Quite frankly, I think he's flat-out lied about saying the reason he went […]
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 […]
Just as Iran’s new leader of their it Revolutionary Guard, Hossein Salami, declared that his regime has plans for 13 attacks against U.S. interests in retaliation for Soleimani’s targeted killing last week, the U.S. Air Force held a massive show of force during a planned exercise in Utah.
“A trigger happy armchair strongman, lacking congressional authority, has recklessly brought our nation closer to war.”
Just as Iran threatens to strike at U.S. interests, President Trump just announced moments ago that he would target "52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago)," saying that Iran itself would be targeted.
Miami – During his Evangelicals for Trump kick-off event Friday, President Donald Trump said that he didn’t know where some members of Congress came from because of their support for the anti-Israel, BDS movement.
As the year comes to a close, lawmakers and citizens are preparing to usher in a new decade that will bring forth a promising start and a contentious election season that will dictate the path that America will take.
Shortly after Sen. Marco Rubio (R) held Iran directly responsible conducting the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, where dozens of Iraqi Shiite militiamen and supporters stormed the compound, President Donald Trump echoed the senator from Florida, saying that the Iranian regime would be held “fully responsible.”
It’s impossible to know exactly what went through the mind of the 12-year-old boy when he refused to become a child soldier of the terrorist group Boko Haram. When the Boko militants came to his village armed with machetes and axes, he and his mother made a run for it. They weren’t successful. As Boko […]
In the midst of the Democratic effort to overturn an election result--also known as impeachment hearings--you could be forgiven for missing an important Trump administration victory in Africa. It shows how the Trump administration’s approach to foreign policy can pay dividends and improve human rights around the world. Last week, Cameroon’s parliament introduced a bill […]
“We’re not talking about a foreign leader. We’re talking about our president.”
Under the Trump administration, a large focus this year has been on the measures that should be taken in order to ensure that Venezuela is freed from the Maduro regime and turned into a democratic country.
“We’re not talking about a foreign leader. We’re talking about our president.”
Under the Trump administration, a large focus this year has been on the measures that should be taken in order to ensure that Venezuela is freed from the Maduro regime and turned into a democratic country.
It was an unexpected move: the Trump administration announced on Thursday that it would be cutting military aid to the government of Cameroon. That aid was, for the nation of Cameroon, a vital resource in their ongoing fight against Islamic extremism. Cameroon is the tip of the spear in the fight against Boko Haram. The […]
On Monday, The U.S. Treasury Department renewed a license allowing Chevron Corporation to continue drilling for oil in Venezuela for another ninety days. Florida Democratic Party Chair Terrie Rizzo responded “Once again Trump has sold out an ally to support a dictator. While the President has pledged support for Guaidó, yesterday the Trump administration turned its back on Democracy in Venezuela […]
“This is a friendship that both countries value, that we cherish.”
To listen to many Democrats is to see a graduate-level course in hypocrisy. Consider, for instance, the Democratic hypocrisy in the African nation of Cameroon.
The Nicholas Maduro regime has confirmed that it will hold a special session of their governing body, a move that U.S.-acknowledged President Juan Guaido says will be all-but end the current Venezuelan opposition government.
“all property and interests in the property of the Government of Venezuela that are in the United States... are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in.”
"Republicans have been wrapping themselves in the Venezuelan flag and claiming to be champions for the restoration of Venezuelan democracy."
Homestead, FL –Reps. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-FL) and Veronica Escobar (D-TX) held a press conference shortly after touring the Homestead immigrant detention facility this past weekend, describing the immigrant living conditions they saw, before casting blame on the Trump administration for the current humanitarian border crisis along the U.S. southern border with Mexico. This was Rep. […]
"The growing turmoil & dire humanitarian crisis in Venezuela under Maduro’s tyranny is forcing millions into exile."
For decades, the U.S. Department of State had Communist Cuba designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, but President Obama, in move to “ease” travel restrictions, and further good will, lifted that designation. President Donald Trump has been in office two-years, and while he has all-but rewritten Obama’s foreign policy with Cuba, he still hasn’t […]
Mexico informed that they had detained nearly 800 illegal immigrants that were attempting to leave the country in four trucks.
“Securing their own border will go a long way.”
"Trump wants to blame Mexico for his failures.”
“The Cuban Regime is a willing and active participant in Maduro’s genocide.”
“Congress cannot allow this president to tank our economy."
