Juan Diego Quesada

The Republican will receive the leader of the Venezuelan opposition at the White House Thursday after speaking by phone with the interim president

Chavismo recognizes the mediation work, in some cases lasting for years, carried out by the Arab state, by the Brazilian president and by a former prime minister of Spain

In an interview with EL PAÍS, the Colombian president acknowledges that he feared being captured like Maduro, but believes that the call with the tycoon ‘froze’ the threat

The US president has invited his Colombian counterpart to the White House and said it was a ‘great honor’ to speak to him after months of verbal attacks

Nicolás Maduro’s only son inherits part of his father’s power but has long been viewed as cut from a different cloth

The president of Venezuela, detained and removed from the country according to Trump, was not willing to reach any agreement with the United States

The plan to hasten the Venezuelan leader’s downfall with a naval deployment in the Caribbean and a campaign of extrajudicial attacks on alleged drug boats has raised questions about what could come next

Venezuela’s president assures that the country’s economic activity will not slow down despite the threats from the US

The government understands that the US warships anchored in the Caribbean Sea are not focusing on alleged drug shipments as much as they are on President Maduro and his closest aides

The White House is deploying missiles in the Caribbean while sending continuous, alarming messages to Chavismo

Washington increases its pressure against Chavismo, which believes an invasion is imminent

President Nicolás Maduro and his closest circle are convinced that Washington will start a war, and have enjoined citizens to hone their shooting skills

The Venezuelan government has announced a massive recruitment drive, while Washington has stepped up its warnings after a week of heightened tensions

Most of the 11 occupants of the vessel — which departed from Venezuela and was blown up by the United States — came from a small coastal town taken over by drug trafficking

The president of Venezuela has so far avoided any direct mention of the destruction of an alleged drug boat. The Chavista government has been under unprecedented military pressure for weeks

Leaders of all political stripes have criticized the alleged plot revealed by EL PAÍS by ex foreign minister Álvaro Leyva, who tried to get support from the US

The writer, who was a presidential candidate in Peru in the 1990s, turned from Marxism to liberalism with the zeal of a convert

The Colombian Minister of Defense, present at the meeting between Kristi Noem and the president, claims that he compared the narcotic to alcohol

The gang, born in a Venezuelan prison, is considered a powerful criminal organization, but it is not capable of being a national security threat as Donald Trump claims

In an exclusive interview with EL PAÍS, the president of Colombia analyzes the difficult situation within his government, the confrontation with Trump, and assures that being head of state is ‘absolute unhappiness’

The conservative president and the left-wing candidate were almost tied and a runoff is scheduled for April 13. The winner will have to contend with a security crisis fueled by local gangs and Mexican drug cartels

The Colombian tells of the mistreatment to which US authorities subject migrants expelled after the Republican assumed the presidency

The Colombian president faces criticism from his ministers and public confusion after a chaotic Cabinet meeting that was broadcast live

Former presidents and ministers from the left and right, plus the financial elites, closed ranks around the Petro administration so that the US would not impose economic sanctions

The Colombian president sought to reach agreements with all of the country’s armed groups, but now finds himself dealing with a conflict that threatens to spread

The president of the United States had threatened Gustavo Petro with a 25% tariff on Colombian products for refusing to allow two planes carrying deportees to land in his country