Internal Report Shows the Military Always Wanted to Join the Drug War
A decade before President Donald Trump boasted of “hunting” alleged “narcoterrorists” on boats off the coast of Venezuela, the Defense...
Latin America
US deploys Ford carrier strike group to combat narco-terror in Western Hemisphere
The Trump administration has ordered the deployment of the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group in the Western Hemisphere as...
Admiral’s Mystery Retirement Amid Secret War Leaves Key Command in Turmoil
U.S. Southern Command, which oversees military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, is in turmoil after the announcement of...
The Pentagon Is Learning It’s Not So Easy to Sink a Boat
U.S. military attacks on suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean have been less effective than portrayed by the Pentagon, the...
Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado dedicates award to Trump for ‘decisive support’
Venezuelan opposition leader and newly minted Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado dedicated the award on Friday to both...
Cuban-led caravan aims for Mexico City as Trump policies deter migrants from US
A 1,200-person caravan of largely Cuban migrants is heading north from Mexico’s southern city of Tapachula in a weeks-long pursuit...
Trump Calls Cartel Members “Terrorists.” They’re Armed With Bullets From a U.S. Army Factory.
EL GUAYABO, Michoacán, Mexico — The armored vehicle, or what now remained of it, lay abandoned in the road where...
Trump Administration Conjures Up New “Terrorist” Designation to Justify Killing Civilians
Since beginning its lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean last month, the Trump administration has faced a difficult question:...
Pentagon Official: Trump Boat Strike Was a Criminal Attack on Civilians
The lethal strike on a boat in the Caribbean on Tuesday was a criminal attack on civilians, according to a...
Trump Boasts of Strike on “Drug-Carrying Boat” from Venezuela
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel...
Can Congress Stop Trump From Starting a War in Mexico?
More than 30 humanitarian, public interest, immigrant rights, faith-based, veterans’ advocacy, and drug policy reform groups are calling on Congress...
Tether Invests in Bit2Me and Leads €30 Million Funding Round
Tether has acquired a minority stake in Bit2Me and is leading a €30 million funding round to support Bit2Me's expansion...
State Dept: Trump’s “Third Countries” for Immigrants Have Awful Human Rights Records
The United States is building an unprecedented network of deportee dumping grounds, pursuing deals with around a third of the...
Rubio heads to Panama, Latin America to pursue Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ agenda
Secretary of State Marco Rubio leaves for his first overseas trip as the nation’s top diplomat on Saturday. Rubio's first...
Who is Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, former Marxist guerrilla and country’s first leftist leader?
A recent spat publicly carried out this weekend over social media between President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro...
