Tim Padgett

Under the Trump administration's tacit oversight, Venezuela's authoritarian regime and democratic opposition start negotiations on Saturday in Caracas to hammer out agreements leading to new elections. But could the timeline last longer than Trump's presidency?

Unlike Latinos elsewhere, Florida's are sticking with President Trump, largely because he and his party bond with right-wing Latin American leaders like Colombia's Abelardo de la Espriella, who takes office on Friday — but brings his own controversial baggage.

COMMENTARY By imitating Donald Trump's obsession with pushing baseless claims of electoral fraud, leftist Colombian leader Gustavo Petro has put the finishing touch on his dysfunctional presidency.

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara spent five years behind bars in Cuba for taking part in — and using his art to help motivate — mass anti-regime protests there in July of 2021. He was released last month and sent to exile in Miami. But several conservative Cuban social media influencers now publicly question whether Otero genuinely suffered as a political prisoner.

A new survey, which comes on what may be the eve of mass deportations back to Haiti, finds Haitians see the defeat of gang rule as their priority — but while they reject amnesty for gang members, they say the restoration of security has to happen alongside meaningful investment in education and other institutions to halt Haiti's gang cycle.

A little over a month after earthquakes devastated neighboring Venezuela, western Colombia is now reeling from a powerful quake that struck Monday morning. For South Florida, nonprofits like Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) in Doral are again the focus of relief aid donations.

COMMENTARY Democratic Socialists will complain if right-wing President Trump tries to block their election in America — but they rarely if ever denounce left-wing election theft in Latin America.

With a decided name-recognition advantage over his opponent, former Miami TV news anchorman Eliott Rodriguez won the Democratic nomination in Florida's 27th congressional district — and could present the Republican incumbent, three-term Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar, with her first serious challenge in November.

COMMENTARY Sending soldiers into the drug war is more performative than productive — and takes a heavier human toll than the law enforcement we should be promoting in Latin America does.

Key West immigrant advocates said almost 30 migrants were detained there over the weekend — including the father of a U.S. Navy sailor who's been serving aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Lincoln in support of the Iran war.