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.

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.

COMMENTARY In this season of Odyssey-mania, it's hard to ignore the frustrated Homeric wanderings of Venezuelan democracy leader María Corina Machado — and the pseudo-god who's decreeing them.

COMMENTARY Did a Mexican tourist run to his death in Florida this month because he feared U.S. immigration enforcement has become — by design — as predatory as law enforcement back in Mexico?

COMMENTARY Argentina used Messi marketing to make its soccer association perhaps the world's richest today — but in the process it's become an FBI-targeted poster child for what's wrong with the sport.

COMMENTARY Because President Trump insists he "runs" Venezuela today, he shares in its regime's abysmal response to last month's earthquakes — and bears the onus for the country's reconstruction.

COMMENTARY Cape Verde's stunning draw with Spain in the World Cup is a reminder of how the country stood firm five years ago in the extradition of alleged Venezuelan corruption mastermind Alex Saab.

COMMENTARY The World Cup should dedicate Haiti's opening game to a Port-au-Prince boy who embraced soccer — the game, not the greed — as sanctuary from the gangs that killed him last month.

COMMENTARY Colombia should have shed its violent, centuries-old polarization when its civil war ended, but its political pendulum still swings far right and far left — especially in this presidential election.

COMMENTARY Prediction markets are betting President Trump will order military action in Cuba, but not regime change — as they know his priority is to make countries ripe for deportation, not democracy.