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International news with a U.S. political angle: Latin America, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela and world events that affect American policy.
Jeb Bush broke out the Spanish again. This time during an interview with MSNBC. In the interview Bush said: “I was hurt hearing somebody speaking in such a vulgar fashion. This makes solving this problem much more difficult. When we have politicians like that we cannot progress. In a political sense it was bad, and […]
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 forever-adolescent pop singer Justin Beiber has just had his arrest warrant in Argentina revoked. The warrant was filed due to 2013 incident in Buenos Aires, where he allegedly sent two of his bodyguards to rough up a photographer, or paparrazo. The Argentine court dropped the international arrest warrant that ordered his "immediate detention," but […]
As if DACA and DAPA had not been controversial enough, President Obama is now planning even more executive actions in order to allow those in the country illegally to stay. The DHS proposal is not a new program as DACA and DAPA were, but it would expand waiver authority under DACA, to grant green cards […]
In Venezuela,food shortages have been come a part of daily life. People make lines which can take 5 hours or more in order to get into a grocery store. What's on their shopping list? Whatever the store has. Now, the Maduro regime in a stopgap measure to deal with the regime created shortages, has ordered […]
After 17 months in a Mexican jail, El Chapo Guzman is understandably a little bit behind. He and his band of thugs at the Sinaloa Carter are trying to play catch up to recover the ground they lost during his time in the slammer. The AP has learned that even though Guzman was not in […]
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 […]
Colombian-American Annette Taddeo is running for the U.S. Congress in Florida's 26th congressional district. Taddeo began her public service by heading the Democratic Party in Miami-Dade County before being tapped by former Republican Governor-turned Democrat Charlie Crist, as his running mate for his failed 2014 gubernatorial campaign against sitting Florida Governor Rick Scott (R). Taddeo […]
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 […]
Donald Trump's controversial comments have continued to make its was into every aspect of life. Now, popular rapper Pitbull is speaking out. In an interview with Jorge Ramos, Pitbull refuted the GOP Hispanics' letter calling Trump "ignorant". He then proceeded to clarify that he would not go into Trump's hotels, golf courses or casinos. Donald […]
Yesterday, a group of leading GOP Hispanics penned an open letter to the new GOP front runner for the 2016 presidential nomination. The letter, published on Fox News Latino, calls the controversial candidate "divisive and ignorant" and goes on to make a strong case. Make no mistake; there is room for a real and honest […]
2016 Democratic presidential candidate and self-proclaimed Socialist, Bernie Sanders, is making a push to win over all of those Latino and Black voters that helped usher in President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. Riding his current and unprecedented political wave of support, the anti-Hillary Clinton presidential candidate spoke to at the national conference of […]
On the popular FoxNews show, The FIVE, Geraldo Rivera lost it during a heated debate over Donald Trump and immigration. Matthew Burke from PolitiStick.com comments: First, Rivera got heated when Jesse Watters said that Donald Trump’s rise was due to him tapping into the sentiment of Americans being led by [Obama] a “skinny community organizer” […]
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 2015 Gold Cup Began with Cuba being at the center of controversy, and not because of the deal struck with the White House. For starters, the head coach and 6 of the players have yet to be granted their visas to enter The United States for the tournament. As if that were not enough, […]
News flash! The Mexican prison and police systems are corrupt! Well, I guess we all knew that. So why would they have kept one of the most dangerous, notorious drug lords of our lifetime in a Mexican prison? Again? Did they not figure that after the first time he escaped, he might give it another […]
One of South Florida's biggest supporters of the ongoing U.S. embargo to Cuba, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D), is breaking with President Obama in regards to his move to reestablish full diplomatic and economic relations with the communist government of Fidel and Raul Castro. “My view is different from President Obama’s,” the DNC chairwoman said […]
As if the rights of the people in Venezuela were not under enough trouble, the government, which has turned Venezuela into the most dangerous country in the world by working side by side with armed gangs (collectivos), has now deemed it a worthy endeavor to go after personal property rights. They've been going after business […]
Carnival Corp. has just received the OK to send its ships to Cuba. According to USAToday, the trips will begin in May of 2016. The company has received approval from U.S. authorities, though it it still waiting for approval by the Cuban government. According to the USA Today: The parent company of Carnival, Princess and […]
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, […]
It seems like every few months rumors start circulating godly around Miami about Fidel Castro's health and the speculation begins as to whether he's alive or dead. But on the back of last week's announcement by the Obama administration that embassies in Havana and DC will open, and that the diplomatic "thaw" with Cuba is moving […]
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 […]
The recent theft of 12,000+ border crossing passes could have turned into a big immigration and national security headache for the United States. Fortunately, Mexican authorities have recovered 10,000 of the missing 12,600 immigration border crossing passes that were stolen last month from a semi-trailer in the northern part of Mexico. According to Univision, the […]
President Obama's move to take Cuba off the State Sponsor of Terrorism list, and "normalize" relations between the U.S. and that criminal regime has been met with bipartisan disapproval in the U.S. Congress, leaving many Americans questioning where their values as a country have gone. It goes without saying that the American-Cuban delegation in the […]
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 […]
According to Univision, Costa Rica joins Mexico in boycotting the upcoming Miss Universe pageant on July 12, and Colombia has now pulled its application to host the next Miss Universe pageant. And for what? Because of Donald Trump's recent controversial statement about immigrants coming to the United States, which was completely accurate? Miss Mexico posted […]
CNN is reporting the the Unites States and Cuba have reached an agreement, and will announce on Wednesday that the two countries will open embassies in each other's capitals. According to two senior administration officials: "We will formally announce tomorrow that the United States and Cuba have reached an agreement to re-establish formal diplomatic relations […]
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 […]
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 […]
According to Puerto Rican Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla, Puerto Rico's debts are "not payable". According to the New York Times, Puerto Rico’s bonds have a face value about eight times that of Detroit’s. Its call for debt relief on such a vast scale could raise borrowing costs for other local governments as investors shy away from […]
South Florida radio show host and former CNN News Anchor Rick Sanchez, has just penned an opinion column over at Fox News Latino, which he states that because of his controversial statement about Mexican and other Latinos, Donald Trump has united Latinos across the U.S. While I respect Mr. Sanchez, and applaud him for what […]






