Venezuela

For more than a decade, retired Maj. Gen. Hugo Carvajal, advised the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez before breaking with his successor, Nicolás Maduro. He had been fighting extradition since his arrest in April 2019.

Caribbean leaders are denouncing U.S. economic sanctions against oil-rich Venezuela and say they’ve been forced to buy costlier petroleum elsewhere.

Influencer and model Sofia Salomón is ready to challenge Venezuela's conservative society by applying to take part in this year’s pageant.

In the coastal towns of Choroni and Chuao, women have started fishing, or in some cases, launching new careers after losing jobs during Venezuela's economic crisis.

The International Criminal Court has ruled that international prosecutors should resume investigating alleged crimes against humanity in Venezuela by security forces.

Leaders of Venezuela’s fractured opposition are shaking voters’ hands and promising — yet again — that they will defeat President Nicolás Maduro at the ballot box.

COMMENTARY Will the welcome rebuke leftist Chilean President Gabriel Boric handed Latin America's older leftists help push their movement into the 21st century?

The Brazilian president’s strong support of Venezuela’s authoritarian leader has marred the unity at a South American summit that Brazil convened in hopes of reviving a bloc of the region’s 12 politically polarized countries.

More than 7.2 million people have left Venezuela since the country’s political, economic and social crisis began last decade.

When Luis López was lost in Panama's Darien Gap last year with his pregnant wife, their two children and her grandmother, he often knelt in the mud to beg God not to abandon them. Now safe in El Paso, Texas, after fleeing Venezuela and hosted by a Catholic bishop, the family awaits his sister and mother.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó says he fled to Colombia because he faced arrest by the Maduro dictatorship — and then to Miami because he faced deportation.

COMMENTARY Vigilantism is an understandable response to relentless violent crime, but Latin America shows it worsens the plague — as it likely will in Haiti if the world doesn't step up.