Venezuela

With less than two months to go to the October 22 vote, candidates have denounced growing threats and violence

Leaders and ministers from eight Amazon nations signed a declaration Tuesday that laid out plans to drive economic development in their countries while preventing the Amazon’s ongoing demise ‘from reaching a point of no return’

The attorney general’s office argues that the leaders — sentenced to 16 years in prison after demanding wage increases — planned subversive acts

While fewer trees are being chopped down in Brazil and Colombia, the rest of the region continues to spiral. The environmental summit will be a key event for the leaders of Peru and Venezuela, who will face each other on the international stage for the first time

The Chavista regime waged a crusade to dominate mass media. Political censorship has alienated audiences from the small screen

The victims of the blaze at the National Institute of Migration, which left 40 dead, speak for the first time about what happened on the night of March 27

Churches and political groups are opposing women’s rights and the LGBTQ+ community with the government’s approval

Luis Mariano Rodríguez Cabello controlled 11 murky accounts in the now-closed Banca Privada d’Andorra

The New York Prosecutor’s Office accuses ex-general Hugo Armando ‘El Pollo’ Carvajal of being a leading member of the Cartel of the Suns, run by military officers and organized crime groups

The Venezuelan president was given a scale model of a jail that doubles as the headquarters of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service as a gift during a police promotion ceremony

Practices such as arbitrary detention, torture, or the use of artificial intelligence to control dissidents are common in most authoritarian regimes, according to activists gathered at the Oslo Freedom Forum

The director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch regrets that the final declaration of the EU-CELAC summit does not openly condemn the region’s authoritarian regimes

The new rule took effect May 11 with the expiration of a COVID-19 restriction known as Title 42 that had limited asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border

The stance comes after the European Parliament condemned the ban on María Corina Machado, a frontrunner in the polls, from public office

The expansion of multinational licenses for oil exploration have brought much-needed funds to the bankrupt Venezuelan treasury. However, serious bottlenecks persist, due to international sanctions and the collapse of the credit system

The businessman and preacher – a political unknown – is going to court in an attempt to challenge the opposition’s primaries in the lead-up to the 2024 Venezuela presidential elections

The candidate for the Venezuelan opposition primaries, who is leading in the polls, talks to EL PAÍS about what she would do if she wins the nomination

Researchers from Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil and the United States have studied the specimens that live up to 200 feet deep in the iconic basin. Photos of 109 species have been compiled in a book

The president of the Venezuelan Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez, and Juan Gonzalez, advisor to Biden, met three weeks ago in the Gulf nation, which is unexpectedly assuming a leading mediation role

The organization, which is involved in crimes such as human trafficking, sexual exploitation and drug trafficking, is extending its tentacles in eight countries in the region

In 10 years, Luisana Pérez went from landing in Miami as a Venezuelan immigrant to a senior position in the Joe Biden administration

The government of Nicolás Maduro has attempted to halt the process, which Caracas claims is being driven by Washington, through various judicial resources

Up to 14 opposition candidates are taking part in the October 22 primaries, which will decide who will face Maduro in 2024. The so-called ‘iron lady’ is leading the polls with more than 50% of support

Within the multi-billion-dollar industry, hundreds of Venezuelans are training AI algorithms for wages that they can barely survive on

Chinese are now the fourth-largest nationality crossing the dangerous jungle route through Panama. The number of Afghans, Indians and Bangladeshis is also increasing

An immigrant family grieves after a respiratory virus outbreak claimed their little girl’s life