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Venezuela’s New NGO Law and U.S. Funding Freeze Are a Death Blow to the Country’s Civil Society
Venezuela enacted a regressive law tightening state control over non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Popularly referred to ...
As Trump wages war on Tren de Aragua, little evidence links Venezuelan gang to violence in Chicago
Despite the president designating the group as a terrorist organization, almost all of the 37 men flagged by Chicago police ...
Appeals court won’t lift order that barred Trump administration from deportations under wartime law
A federal appeals court won’t lift an order barring the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants to El ...
Illegal migrant who attacked NYPD cop greeted with warm hug by top Venezuelan official after being deported
Izquiel, 19, was greeted with a warm hug by the Venezuelan Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, after ...
DEA: Colorado is Venezuelan gang's 'command center'
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed on Monday that it regards Colorado as “ground zero" for "some of the most ...
The Tribune13d
Trump administration terminates parole programs for over 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela
America's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is terminating the parole programs for 'inadmissible aliens' from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, which were announced in 2022 and 2023 ...
CNN13d
Slain DEA agent’s family suing Mexican cartel 40 years later after terror designation
When Dora Camarena was on her deathbed in 2021, her family recalls she wished to have lived long enough to see the Mexican cartel that killed her son pay for what it did. Forty years after his ...
The New York Times14d
Trump Administration Moves to End Program for Migrants From 4 Caribbean and Latin American Nations
The Trump administration said Friday that it was ending a Biden-era program that allowed hundreds of thousands of people from four troubled countries to enter the United States lawfully and work ...
Mercury News14d
Family of California DEA agent sues Mexican drug cartel under new terrorist designation
The family of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, who along with his Mexican pilot was kidnapped, tortured and killed in 1985 in Mexico, filed an anti-terrorism ...
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Trump administration response on Venezuela deportations 'woefully insufficient,' judge says
President Donald Trump's administration's response to a judicial request for more details on timing of deportation flights carrying hundreds of Venezuelan migrants was "woefully insufficient," a ...