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Venezuela opposition leader Machado banned from public office for 15 years

Venezuela barred opposition leader María Corina Machado from running in upcoming elections, causing more tension in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential vote.

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DeSantis' treatment of migrants divides Miami's Venezuelan community, the nation's largest

MIAMI -- Angelo Gomez walked across seven countries and a gang-infested jungle. He caught a ride through Mexico atop the train known as La Bestia, carrying a bucket of rocks for protection. Then he turned himself over to Border Patrol agents in Texas earlier this month, telling them he feared…

Los Angeles Times

Venezuelan women are increasingly taking up the grueling work of fishing in the Caribbean

Dozens of people hop onto boats every day along Venezuela’s vast Caribbean coast to go fishing on 12-hour shifts

The Independent UK

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Sleeping on the floor of a Chicago police station for weeks, some migrants say it’s still their best option

CHICAGO -- Carlos Ramirez, who was a police officer in Venezuela before he says he was persecuted by government officials, now sleeps on an air mattress on the floor of a police station in Chicago.

Chicago Tribune

International Criminal Court authorizes reopening probe into Venezuela security forces

The International Criminal Court has ruled that international prosecutors should resume investigating alleged crimes against humanity in Venezuela by security forces under President Nicolás Maduro because the country’s own probe has fallen short

The Independent UK

A Venezuelan migrant is using his blossoming painting skills to brighten his adoptive hometown

Juan Carlos Silva was a career military man before leaving his home country for the trek north. In Chicago, his talent for painting has fed his spirit and found fans.

Chicago Sun-Times

Equipos migrantes se unen a torneo de fútbol para el Día del Refugiado

“El fútbol es un elemento común en estas comunidades de personas desplazadas”, dijo un organizador.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Migrant soccer team trains for local ‘Refugee World Cup’

The squad is made up of asylum seekers staying at a South Side shelter. They will play in a tournament against other refugees from around the world who now call Chicago home.

Chicago Sun-Times

Iran’s Raisi secures array of agreements on Latin American tour

Ebrahim Raisi visits Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, Tehran’s three allies in the region, on five-day trip.

Al Jazeera

Iran's president meets Cuban counterpart in last leg of Latin American tour

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has met with Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel in Havana, the last stop of a Latin American trip that also took him to Iran's two other allies in the region — Venezuela and Nicaragua

The Independent UK

Congress Should Improve and then Pass the Venezuelan Adjustment Act

The bipartisan legislation would grant permanent residency and work rights to some 400,000 refugees from Venezuela's brutal socialist dictatorship.

Reason

Pregnant Paris Fury flooded with messages as she shares sweet matching photo of daughters

The proud mum gushed over her "beautiful" children Venezuela, Valencia and Athena

Manchester Evening News

Overcrowding, cold food and uncertain futures a way of life for migrants in Chicago’s shelters

CHICAGO -- Across the street from the 1st District police station, Hildemaro Rafael Peña Gonzalez, 23, from Venezuela, fed cereal out of a plastic takeout container to his pregnant wife Racnia del Carmen León Mendoza, 19, and rubbed her swollen belly. The couple was moved from the station to a…

Chicago Tribune

‘She should be up there with the greatest’: celebrating the art of Gego

Fleeing Nazi Germany and ending up in Venezuela, the unusual artist found a career crafting offbeat sculptures, on display in a new exhibition

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Rick Scott likens Trump indictment to tactics of Cuban, Venezuelan dictators

MIAMI — U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, with the bolstering of human rights activists and former political prisoners from Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, accused the Biden administration of utilizing a tactic commonly found in dictator playbooks: Weaponizing the legal system to go after the president’s opponents.

The Independent UK

Iran's president begins Latin America tour with stop in Venezuela

In his first visit to Latin America, Iran’s hardline president has met with his Venezuelan counterpart and declared both countries have “a common enemy,” alluding to the United States

The Week

How Latin America became the battleground in Cold War 2.0

Latin America is serving as a proxy battleground for a new Cold War as China, Iran and Russia seek to build influence, exploit resources and undermine the United States in the region.

Al Jazeera

Iran’s Ebrahim Raisi after ‘strategic’ ties in South America tour

Iran has said standing up to Western imperialism is a main message of the president’s tour.

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WEKU

Here's one route where immigration has slowed since Biden's new U.S. border rules

France 24

Trinidad and Tobago: From the Caribbean to the caliphate

The twin island state of Trinidad and Tobago lies between the South American coast of Venezuela and the West Indies. Home to roughly 1.5 million inhabitants of African and Indian descent, the tiny Caribbean nation has one of the world’s highest volunteer rates for the Islamic State (IS) group. Between…

Chicago Sun-Times

Immigrant who died at Woodlawn shelter identified: ‘He was a very good person’

Luis Alberto Aguilar Peres was a father and husband who made the long trek from Venezuela to the United States for a better life, his friend said. He died June 2.

The Independent UK

Opponents compete to square off against Venezuela's powerful leader

Leaders of Venezuela’s fractured opposition are shaking voters’ hands and promising — yet again — that they will defeat President Nicolás Maduro at the ballot box

The Guardian - US

Florida confirms it was behind flights that left asylum seekers in California

Officials claim the people, mostly from Colombia and Venezuela, consented to the travel, refuting allegations from Gavin Newsom

The Independent UK

Recordings shake confidence in Colombia's leftist government, jeopardize reforms

A corruption scandal that has shaken Colombia’s first leftist government and undermined its ability to carry out ambitious reforms has grown following the release of several voice messages featuring the nation’s former ambassador to Venezuela

The Independent UK

Casabe, Cuba's little-known traditional bread, seeks world recognition

Cuba is leading a delegation of Caribbean nations, including Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Honduras and Haiti, to formally request UNESCO to add casabe, a little-known ancestral flatbread made of yuca, cassava, to the organization's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage

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