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Venezuelan man wanted for homicide found in Lincoln Park, feds say
A Venezuelan man illegally living in the United States and accused of a crime in his home country has been arrested in Michigan, federal officials announced Monday. According to a news release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Franh Enrique...

Unbound Chamber Music Festival returns on July 16
The 2025 Unbound Chamber Music Festival at Cerro Coso College returns this month for another series of concerts showcasing some of history’s greatest composers and today’s top classical musicians. The festival opens at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 16...

Andres Ruocco: From Army Veteran to Fitness Industry Leader
“I’ve always believed in personal growth,” Ruocco says. “And I’ve always wanted to make a difference.” Who Is Andres Ruocco? Andres Ruocco grew up in Venezuela, the son of a civil engineer and an English tutor. He speaks three languages—English,...

Bad Bunny Imagines Trump Doing The Absolutely Unthinkable In New Music Video
LOADINGERROR LOADING Bad Bunny, in his new music video, depicted Donald Trump doing something highly unlikely to ever happen: apologize for his hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies. Well, at least a voice sounding remarkably like the...

Salvadoran Cardinal Demands End to Emergency Rule, Transparency on Detained Venezuelan Migrants
Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez has urged the government of Nayib Bukele to disclose the whereabouts and conditions of more than 250 Venezuelan migrants held incommunicado in a maximum-security prison. Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez calls for the...

Neighbors Come Together to Defend Urban Trees in Caracas, Venezuela
By Estefanía Salazar, Trans by: Rebecca Wilson This article is part of the “Environmental Defenders” series, co-published by Latin America Bureau and Global Voices. What must I do as a citizen to love and care for nature and the blue sky sea of...

Live painting to be at Art Festival Saturday
New at the Roscommon Art Festival this year will be live painting by Donn Angel Pérez, offering attendees a chance to witness the creative process in motion. Pérez, a Venezuelan-born artist who studie...

María Gabriela de Faría: A Venezuelan Star Shines in Hollywood
Los Angeles, CA — María Gabriela de Faría, a Venezuelan actress, is making her mark in Hollywood as she prepares to portray Angela ‘Angie’ Spica in the upcoming film Superman directed by James Gunn. Known for her roles in Venezuelan telenovelas...

Trump Is About To Turbocharge A New Immigration Policy That Could Endanger Thousands Of Lives
The Trump administration is set to vastly expand deportations to countries other than immigrants’ home nations, supercharging a system of international detainee transfers that human rights advocates say exposes thousands of people to human rights...

Cumbia Integrates Everyone In Reykjavík
Cumbia, the indigenous and Afro-Colombian music genre, is trickling through Reykjavík. Restaurant La Poblana hosts cumbia nights in their new and bigger space, ensembles such as La Dimensión and Sonido Fin perform cumbia at Tónabíó and Stúdíó...

Find a taste of Venezuelan snacks and treats at Yumfood
Patricia Reverol-Urdaneta started Yumfood, a Venezuelan snack and dessert business, in Urbandale, Iowa. Reverol-Urdaneta, originally an engineer, learned to cook from her family in Venezuela and honed her skills during the pandemic. Yumfood offers...

Flight 41 of Plan Vuelta a la Patria Returns 203 Venezuelan Migrants from United States via Honduras
203 Venezuelan nationals returned from U.S., arrive safely in Maiquetía.Photo:TeleSUR July 9, 2025 Hour: 8:26 pm On July 9, 2025, Venezuela’s Plan Vuelta a la Patria repatriated 203 Venezuelan migrants originally from the United States, who made a...

Long Beach Walls returns this month, celebrating 10 years of colorful, artistic impact across city
Long Beach Walls and Arts Renzei will return this month, celebrating 10 years of its colorful and artistic impact across the city. The annual public art festival will once again bring new murals, installations and community-driven creativity to...

ICE Nazi Cruelty Report: DHS Discovers Eswatini, A New African Country To Kidnap People To
ICE bravely confronting person in wheelchair / CBS News screenshot Damn, this ICE shit is getting real dark is a sentence we will sadly, surely be saying every day for as long as this evil administration lasts. We wish these horrors weren’t...

Trump officials pursued 2 Venezuelan prisoner swaps, both failed: Report
What was meant to be a strategic deal to bring Americans home from Venezuelan prisons was derailed by competing diplomatic efforts within the Trump administration, according to The New York Times. The two separate sets of negotiations with...

HYBE reveals finalists for SANTOS BRAVOS, its first-ever Latin music boy group
A key part of the strategy for HYBE’s global expansion is to bring to the world the “K-pop methodology” that made global superstars out of such groups as BTS, Seventeen and Enhyphen. That method, developed by HYBE founder and Chairman Bang...

Celebrating the global majority with Pivot Arts
Founded in 2012 by theater director Julieanne Ehre as a celebration of multidisciplinary work, Pivot Arts held its first festival in May 2013 with the theme of “Reigniting the Vaudeville Era in Uptown and Edgewater,” featuring artists like Mucca...

Don't Fall for It: New 'Superman' Movie's Immigrant Controversy Is Totally Manufactured by the Media
If you’ve been hanging around social media for long enough this summer, you’ve probably heard that the new “Superman” movie is supposed to be insufferably woke. While nowadays you have to be on the lookout for virtually every superhero movie...

Elon Musk’s AI Grok Sparks Global Outrage After Praising Hitler: The Risks of Unregulated Artificial Intelligence
Grok AI scandal: Musk’s chatbot under fire for endorsing Hitler amid Texas tragedy.Photo:EFE. July 9, 2025 Hour: 4:27 pm Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has ignited international controversy after making statements praising Adolf Hitler, raising...

How Trump officials botched a deal to get Americans out of Venezuelan prisons in exchange for deported migrants
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