CARACAS, Venezuela — There may be no honor among thieves, but there certainly is no shortage of chutzpah. First came the hefty kickbacks that employees at a Miami brokerage office pledged to ... Read more
WASHINGTON — Countries around the world, including allies of the United States, have used laws on blasphemy and apostasy to suppress political opponents, the State Department said on Monday in an annual ... Read more
Lawyers for the opposition candidate in the recent presidential election, Henrique Capriles Radonski, on Thursday submitted papers to the Supreme Court challenging the result. Mr. Capriles lost to ... Read more
HAVANA — In many ways, it was a typical May Day: Hundreds of thousands of Cuban workers — doctors, sailors, dancers, bank clerks — marched Wednesday toward this city’s vast Revolution ... Read more
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Venezuela stumbled deeper into political chaos this week as legislators brawled in the National Assembly and government supporters and opponents took to the streets for rival marches ... Read more
CARACAS, Venezuela — Just a few weeks ago, Tim Tracy spoke of his time shooting a documentary in Venezuela as a rollicking adventure and a filmmaker’s dream. Now he is under arrest, accused by the ... Read more
CARACAS, Venezuela — An American citizen has been arrested by Venezuelan authorities who said Thursday that he had been taken into custody because he was involved in a plot to destabilize the country ... Read more
CARACAS, Venezuela — In the carnival-mirror world of Venezuelan politics, Nicolás Maduro was sworn in as president on Friday, just hours after election officials agreed to carry out a partial ... Read more
CARACAS, Venezuela — Election officials on Thursday agreed to a request by Venezuela’s losing presidential candidate to conduct an expanded audit of the results from the recent election won by a ... Read more
CARACAS, Venezuela — Tensions escalated here on Tuesday as the newly elected president, Nicolás Maduro, and his opponent blamed each other for the violence that has left at least seven people dead, ... Read more