Venezuela

At least five prisoners remain cut off from all contact in Salvadoran jails, a year after the US president ordered their unprecedented expulsion as alleged gang members

The opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate attracted a crowd of over 15,000 people to a demonstration in Santiago, where she had traveled to attend José Antonio Kast’s inauguration

The Trump administration’s persecution is generating a massive return flow to Latin America driven by the fear of mass raids

Parliament debates new rules for mining and incentives for foreign investment in an area that is controlled by criminal groups and which has become a major environmental disaster

The Kremlin is offloading its offshore oil reserves due to the Middle East crisis, but a sustained global recession would hit its economy hard

Since September, three deportation flights have been sent to Tehran. Meanwhile, deportations to Caracas have increased following the capture of Nicolás Maduro

During the severe crisis of the 1990s, the regime explored models for survival without ever losing power. Today, facing an even bigger threat, Cuban historians and economists are analyzing possible scenarios

The US president warned that there will be no agreement with Tehran to end the war ‘except unconditional surrender’

María Corina Machado has announced she is returning, and the country is once again talking about voting, even though no date has been set

Ties had been severed since 2019. The State Department announced the move as part of ‘a peaceful transition to a democratically elected government’ following Maduro’s capture

At least eight stations have been shut down so far in 2026. The crackdown contrasts with the government’s gestures of openness amid a surprising critical shift by large corporations like Venevisión

The Venezuelan dissident, recently released from prison, defends his strategy of acting within the existing legal framework to push for a political opening based on persuasion and consensus

The region is cautiously analyzing the situation in the Middle East, especially due to the risks of increased inflation and the decline of local currencies against the dollar

In the National Assembly, the opposition bloc debated changes they considered essential with Chavista lawmakers until the last minute

The opposition leader, who is close to María Corina Machado, maintains that a political transition is already underway and that Chavismo has lost its ability to impose conditions

At age 90, the California artist creates a new prize with a large financial endowment whose first recipient is his admired colleague, the director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic

Decimated by years of political persecution, opposition parties are emerging from clandestinity after the removal of Nicolás Maduro

Three young Cubans, born at the end of the Special Period, describe their routines, fears, and survival strategies in the days leading up to a predicted energy collapse

Treasury sanctions are blocking the Caracas government from accessing the funds needed to cover the costs of the trial

After fighting in Iraq, he served 16 years in prison before being placed in immigration detention and eventually deported: ‘I have the right to be buried in a national cemetery, but not to live in America’

Foro Penal reports that nearly 400 people are involved in cases that fall outside the situations covered by the new legislation

Over 50 migrants were transferred from Louisiana to the prison in December, believing they were being returned to Cuba. After several weeks stranded there, they were returned to the US and then deported to Havana

Trade has declined and has yet to recover since the hyperinflationary crisis of 2018, but foreign direct investment and remittances have soared in the last two years

An intelligence report links the Serb and Giovanny Andrés Rojas, known as ‘Araña,’ to a transnational drug‑trafficking network, turning their extraditions into a diplomatic issue between Washington, Bogotá, and Caracas

The measure passed after two weeks of consultations with the opposition, but nearly 200 members of the military have been excluded from the pardon