From Galicia, a friend is trying to move mountains. Across the Atlantic in Venezuela, a woman has spent six days beside the building where her parents, brother and two young nephews lie trapped beneath the debris
Five days after the disaster, tensions between residents and authorities are escalating in the hardest-hit areas
EL PAÍS reports from the apocalypse after the earthquake, where precarious conditions and lack of resources mark rescue efforts following the double tremor. Authorities have recovered up to 20 bodies per hour, and the death toll has already reached 1,450
Six months after the political shift triggered by the American military intervention, the penal reform promised by Delcy Rodríguez’s administration raises doubts about its true scope
Under U.S. oversight, without free access to its own revenues, and with a system that was already operating at its limits, the South American country is facing its darkest hours
The damage in Caracas and La Guaira has reignited the debate over the safety standards required for buildings in earthquake-prone countries
The most powerful earthquake in a century strikes a country with an acting president and strained basic services
The United States has eased sanctions, pledged $150 million in aid and deployed military ships and aircraft after the back-to-back earthquakes
The government raises the death toll to 920 and places the number of injured at upwards of 3,000 one day after the back-to-back quakes
Leaders of several Latin American countries have also shown support for the government of Delcy Rodríguez as it grapples with the effects of back-to-back quakes near the northern coast
Dinorah Figuera, who was president of the parallel opposition National Assembly of 2015, returns to Caracas from her exile in Spain to meet with Chavista leaders and the U.S. envoy
Washington pushes economic issues tied to its interests, while expectations of near‑term political change fade
In an unprecedented operation, the two countries kill the leader of Tren de Aragua after identifying the man’s leg tattoo
Most were part of the so‑called Operation White Armband, an alleged conspiracy denounced by Chavista intelligence agencies
Now under investigation back home on influence-peddling and money laundering charges, the ex-prime minister of Spain defends his risky mediation with Chavismo and the opposition by noting the number of political prisoners he helped free
The policy shift aims to address the collapse of a grid that has been battered by blackouts and problems over the past two decades, and includes a tariff increase
NGOs report there are at least 21 people irregularly detained whose whereabouts are unknown. In one case, the family has been searching for eight years
The president of Cuba, in Raúl Castro’s shadow, has barely been able to push through reforms on the island, which is bordering on collapse
According to outlets such as CBS and Reuters, the new probe against the former Venezuelan president comes amid doubts over the viability of the charges filed when he was detained in January by US forces
EL PAÍS obtains the UDEF police report with the conversations from the network that implicate the former prime minister
The precedent in Caracas looms over the island, but analysts and historians see a horizon of ‘capitalism without democracy’ as more likely than regime change
Héctor Rovaín, Luis Molina, and Erasmo Bolívar were convicted, without evidence, over deaths that occurred in 2002 during protests in which Hugo Chávez was briefly ousted
The release of the 16-year-old comes amid outrage over the death of Carmen Navas, the mother of a political prisoner who died in state custody
The handover of the former regime fixer to the United States is the most revealing episode of how the Rodríguez siblings, backed by Diosdado Cabello, are trying to sever the most toxic ties of the Maduro era
Donald Trump has again opened the door to a diplomatic deal with Havana to force political and economic concessions in exchange for aid
The former oil minister, who is on trial for corruption, has denounced torture and extortion by prominent figures in the regime
The businessman’s arrest in Washington raises many questions about his nationality and his fall from grace