History's Teeth
During the 1960s the CIA plotted dozens of ways to kill Fidel Castro, including poisoned cigars and contaminated diving suits. The schemes involved Mafia figures, Operation Mongoose and a 1975 Senate probe that exposed as many as 638 plans.
Latin Casanova
American women are told the Latin man is a fantasy of roses and dancing. The real reason they fall is far darker: he kept his heart alive in a region Washington spent a century trying to break.
Football Gods
Paraguay stunned Germany at the 2026 World Cup, winning on penalties after a 1-1 draw that featured a VAR reversal and heroic goalkeeping. The result underlines South America’s surprising dominance over European teams in this tournament.
Imperialists
President Trump has shifted NATO toward a commercial model. Allies pledged nearly $120 billion and will use summits in Ankara on July 7 and 8, 2026 to announce arms deals tied to U.S. jobs and exports.
Imperialists
Trump renewed his demand to seize Greenland at the NATO summit, threatening to pull U.S. troops from Europe. Latin America has watched this exact playbook for two hundred years, and it always ends the same way, with the rich enriched and the poor buried.
Broken System
Hunter Biden erupted this week with a blistering charge: the Trump family runs government as a private cash machine. This is not a scandal. It is the latest chapter in a system that has long enriched elites while the working poor pay the price.
Exodus
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration can block asylum seekers from crossing the southern border, reviving a turn-back policy. The decision threatens migrants fleeing Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and Central America.
Cocaine Royalty
Pablo Escobar built cocaine trafficking into an industrial operation, mixing brutal violence and public largesse. His 1993 death ended a man but not the market he created.
Future Shock
Cheap Chinese humanoid robots are entering Asia’s airports. They solve labor shortages. They also expose a new form of corporate dependency and social risk.
Venezuela's worst earthquakes in over a century have killed at least 164 people and exposed a state hollowed by corruption. As foreign rescue teams arrive, the U.S. and Chevron eye the country's oil, raising hard questions about who will control the recovery.
Corruption
An investigation reveals how oil giants spent decades buying climate science at elite universities to protect their profits. The same logic of resource capture haunts Venezuela, where vast oil wealth left its people buried under rubble after deadly June earthquakes.
Twin 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes struck northern Venezuela, killing at least 188 people and exposing decades of infrastructure decay. The disaster deepens political tensions between the acting government and the U.S., while survivors scramble for aid.