Venezuelan businessman Diego Salazar – the cousin of former minister Rafael Ramírez – accumulated a personal art collection of 67 works. He did this while leading a plot to money-launder $2 billion in Andorra, which he and his fellow Chavistas embezzled from Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA)
Several agents have undertaken the journey through the Darién Gap to reach the United States. They have left their jobs in law enforcement, disappointed by low wages, politicization and job instability
A company controlled by Rocío del Valle Maneiro signed a contract worth more than $14 million with a group of Venezuelan politicians, who are being investigated for corruption. The plot also had a former senior security official from Caracas on the payroll: it paid him $1.6 million
The Venezuelan leader seeks to strengthen ties with Beijing as attempts at rapprochement with Washington remain fruitless
The United Nations will manage the process, which could advance talks in Mexico to resolve the country’s political and social crisis
More than 83,000 fans at the nearly full Monumental de Nuñez Stadium were getting jittery until Messi scored
Feminist groups have detected misogynistic patterns in the judicial system, with women sentenced and jailed for the murder of their children, when these crimes were committed by others
The two talked about deepening U.S.-Costa Rica trade tries, creating new jobs and advancing democracy in addition to promoting a more orderly immigration process
The two leaders are expected to discuss how the two nations can work together to strengthen economic ties through new jobs, advance democracy and promote orderly migration
Spain defeated Brazil 96-78, and the Americans beat Greece 109-81
The Maduro government is facing serious obstacles in selling its oil and accessing international credit, blaming restrictions for the economic crisis, but experts point out the collapse predates them
Rojas jumped 15.08 meters (49 feet, 5 3/4 inches) on her sixth and final attempt Friday night to rally for her fourth straight title at world championships
With less than two months to go to the October 22 vote, candidates have denounced growing threats and violence
The humanitarian agreement between the government of Nicolás Maduro and the Venezuelan opposition, which was channeling to the UN some assets frozen by U.S. sanctions, has stalled due to several factors
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
