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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused the governments of Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba on Tuesday of being “enemies of humanity” and causing the migration crisis in the region. “These three regimes that exist in Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba are enemies of humanity and have created a migration crisis. If it weren’t for these three regimes, there wouldn’t be a migration crisis in the hemisphere,” Rubio said at a press conference in Costa Rica. “They created it because they are countries where their systems don’t work,” declared the U.S. chief diplomat, son of Cuban immigrants, in Spanish. Cuban President Miguel...

Michael Weiss and Holger Roonemaa Mon, February 20, 2023 at 5:00 PM CST A leaked internal strategy document from Vladimir Putin’s executive office and obtained by Yahoo News lays out a detailed plan on how Russia plans to take full control over neighboring Belarus in the next decade under the pretext of a merger between the two countries. The document outlines in granular detail a creeping annexation by political, economic and military means of an independent but illiberal European nation by Russia, which is an active state of war in its bid to conquer Ukraine through overwhelming force. “Russia’s goals...

CARACAS, Venezuela-Shoppers crowd Venezuela's shopping malls, two years after they were padlocked during a national strike against President hugo Chaves. The economy is robust once again. The mass demonstrations that paralyzed the capitol are no more.But underneath the veneer of normalcy in this oil-rich nation is deep frustration felt by Chavez's opponents after three attempts to unseat him failed: a coup, a national srike and a referendum. They are in dissaray and unable to challenge a preisent they accuse of steering Venzuela into a Cuba-style dictatorship.