# Vanessa Battaglia https://humanevents.com/author/vanessa-battaglia ## Articles by Vanessa Battaglia - [VANESSA BATTAGLIA: Cuba should take a deal or face President Trump's 'big stick' diplomacy](https://humanevents.com/opinion/vanessa-battaglia-cuba-should-take-a-deal-or-face-president-trumps-big-stick-diplomacy.md) — 2026-02-06 — Cuba could take a deal, the terms of which, of course, have not been disclosed. Or Cuba could let the Sword of Damocles (Don-ocles?) fall. - [VANESSA BATTAGLIA: Trump's removal of Maduro is a major blow to China](https://humanevents.com/opinion/vanessa-battaglia-trumps-removal-of-maduro-is-a-major-blow-to-china.md) — 2026-01-06 — China is not a random foe whose front row seat to the Maduro Disappearing Act, feeling the loin-quaking rotor wash of the 160th SOAR's MH-47G Chinooks, is simply a convenient bonus for us, although… - [VANESSA BATTAGLIA: Tulsi was the hunted—now she's the huntress](https://humanevents.com/opinion/vanessa-battaglia-tulsi-was-the-hunted-now-shes-the-huntress.md) — 2025-07-25 — Gabbard—combat veteran, falsely accused of disloyalty, a political refugee—stands athwart the most dangerous and creepy parts of the deep state. - [VANESSA BATTAGLIA: Academic visas are the CCP's backdoor into America](https://humanevents.com/opinion/vanessa-battaglia-academic-visas-are-the-ccps-backdoor-into-america.md) — 2025-06-05 — Academic visas as a Chinese Trojan Horse for biohazard terrorism, spying, and IP theft are beyond out of control. - [VANESSA BATTAGLIA: An ode to air traffic controllers—but not the FAA](https://humanevents.com/opinion/vanessa-battaglia-an-ode-to-air-traffic-controllers-but-not-the-faa.md) — 2025-02-22 — The FAA did not respect the controllers or the engineers trying to serve them. But it didn’t have to be this way. - [VANESSA BATTAGLIA: After the Coronation Ball, it's time for the Right to make moves](https://humanevents.com/opinion/vanessa-battaglia-after-the-coronation-ball-its-time-for-the-right-to-make-moves.md) — 2025-01-29 — The group assembled there was a collection of take-action doers. Builders. - [VANESSA BATTAGLIA: Yellen's Treasury is rushing to implement compulsory financial surveillance](https://humanevents.com/opinion/vanessa-battaglia-yellens-treasury-is-rushing-to-implement-compulsory-financial-surveillance.md) — 2024-12-31 — Of course for the Biden administration, the answer is never prosecuting the unlawful; the answer is always to spy more on the lawful. - [VANESSA BATTAGLIA: Why did this gun store disappear from Houston and then turn up on the black market?](https://humanevents.com/opinion/vanessa-battaglia-why-did-this-gun-store-disappear-from-houston-and-then-turn-up-on-the-black-market.md) — 2024-12-24 — The facts are too strange to rule out what might initially sound like fiction. - [VANESSA BATTAGLIA: Chinese illegal immigrant ships US arms to North Korea](https://humanevents.com/opinion/vanessa-battaglia-chinese-illegal-immigrant-ships-us-arms-to-north-korea.md) — 2024-12-23 — The gun-smuggling might not be directly related to the martial law; but all is not rosy in South Korea’s garden. - [VANESSA BATTAGLIA: Meet the men who saved our country](https://humanevents.com/opinion/vanessa-battaglia-meet-the-men-who-saved-our-country.md) — 2024-11-19 — These men and their mission were the miracle. - [VANESSA BATTAGLIA: Does China import glass and human smuggling to the Midwest?](https://humanevents.com/opinion/vanessa-battaglia-does-china-import-glass-and-human-smuggling-to-the-midwest.md) — 2024-10-14 — Heritage Americans are being displaced from our legacy factories and homes, so they can be replaced with forced laborers and makeshift barracks for CCP wealth formation. - [VANESSA BATTAGLIA: Why are communist Chinese companies operating on US soil?](https://humanevents.com/opinion/vanessa-battaglia-why-are-communist-chinese-companies-operating-on-us-soil.md) — 2024-09-24 — In many cases, our own government creates the conditions favorable for pro-CCP NGOs to be able to create influence. - [VANESSA BATTAGLIA: RFK Jr endorsing Trump was a miracle](https://humanevents.com/opinion/vanessa-battaglia-rfk-jr-endorsing-trump-was-a-miracle.md) — 2024-09-03 — Jesus warned that families would become divided, and that only he who hates his life in this world will keep it eternally. But you never think it’s going to happen on live TV. - [VANESSA BATTAGLIA: Tim Walz is the Chinese Communist Party's useful idiot](https://humanevents.com/opinion/vanessa-battaglia-tim-walz-is-the-chinese-communist-partys-useful-idiot.md) — 2024-08-14 — Tim Walz is a truly captured elite, the ideological product of the CCP’s tourism-based charm offensive. - [VANESSA BATTAGLIA: Is the US being colonized by China?](https://humanevents.com/opinion/vanessa-battaglia-is-the-us-being-colonized-by-china.md) — 2024-08-05 — With our self-sufficiency ceded to China, and China progressively buying up our land and resources, do we at some point become China’s colony?