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Byline: Samantha Schmidt CÈÜCUTA, Colombia - Colombia's historic peace deal was hailed as an end to the longest-running civil conflict in the hemisphere. It hinged, in part, on a promise: [...]

Byline: Peter Jamison, Samantha Schmidt The government of Nicolás Maduro will take in Venezuelans who are deported by the United States, President Donald Trump said Saturday, potentially clearing the way [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt, John Hudson, Karen DeYoung Richard Grenell, President Donald Trump's special missions envoy, traveled to Caracas on Friday to meet with Venezuelan President NicolÈís Maduro, in what is [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt, John Hudson Richard Grenell, President Donald Trump's special missions envoy, traveled to Caracas on Friday to meet with Venezuelan President NicolÈís Maduro, according to two people familiar [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt, Maria Sacchetti BOGOTÁ, Colombia - President Donald Trump threatened to punish Colombia with tariffs, a travel ban and other sanctions to compel it to accept deportation flights [...]

Byline: Mariana Alfaro, Samantha Schmidt, Karen DeYoung, Trisha Thadani The United States and Colombia averted a trade war, for now, after the White House said late Sunday that BogotÈí agreed [...]

Byline: Mariana Alfaro, Samantha Schmidt, Mary Beth Sheridan, Trisha Thadani President Donald Trump on Sunday announced strict tariffs and visa restrictions on Colombia after the South American nation's president, Gustavo [...]

Byline: Mariana Alfaro, Samantha Schmidt, Mary Beth Sheridan, Trisha Thadani President Donald Trump on Sunday announced strict tariffs and visa restrictions on Colombia after the South American nation's president, Gustavo [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt BOGOTÁ, Colombia - More than 80 people have been killed, and about 20,000 displaced, in ongoing clashes between armed groups in Colombia, officials say, marking one of [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro began a third term as president on Friday, cementing his increasingly authoritarian rule after claiming an electoral victory without providing evidence of his [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt María Corina Machado, the driving force of Venezuela's opposition movement, was briefly detained Thursday as she left a rally in Caracas, the opposition campaign said, a day [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt María Corina Machado, the driving force of Venezuela's opposition movement, was arrested by government security forces Thursday as she left a rally in Caracas, a day before [...]

Even in authoritarian Venezuela, where NicolÈís Maduro's government has made thousands of politically motivated arrests over the past decade, human rights activists said they have never seen anything like the [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt Paraguay has reversed its decision to halt cooperation between its antidrug agency and the United States, officials announced Wednesday, a rupture that critics said would have jeopardized [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt BOGOTÁ, Colombia - The beat hit the internet just when Venezuelans needed it most. They see the song 'Veneka' as an anthem about Venezuelan women, a crude [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung, Samantha Schmidt Within hours of Donald Trump's reelection as U.S. president this month, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro offered public congratulations, calling Trump's victory a "win-win" for both [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt Venezuela's authoritarian government Saturday released dozens of political prisoners - including some women and children - who were detained in a brutal crackdown on dissent following the [...]

Byline: David Feliba, Samantha Schmidt, Maxine Joselow, Chico Harlan BUENOS AIRES - Argentine President Javier Milei is evaluating whether to withdraw his country from the Paris climate agreement as part [...]

Byline: Ruby Mellen, Samantha Schmidt Hurricane Rafael blew through western Cuba on Wednesday night, flooding streets, damaging buildings and plunging millions of people into darkness. The country's national power company, [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt, Dino Grandoni LOS FARALLONES DE CALI, Colombia - The park ranger trudged through the red mud, beneath the fog-covered Andean mountains he was tasked with protecting, on [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt The authoritarian government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro arrested a fourth American citizen, a top official said Tuesday, the latest in a string of foreigners detained in [...]

Byline: María Luisa Paúl, Niha Masih, Samantha Schmidt Edmundo González, the Venezuelan opposition candidate for president and likely winner of the July 28 election, fled the South American nation on [...]

Byline: Ana Vanessa Herrero , Samantha Schmidt CARACAS, Venezuela - First, the Biden administration offered Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro carrots. Promise to hold a fair, competitive election and respect the [...]

Byline: Alex Horton, Samantha Schmidt Venezuelan law enforcement authorities detained a U.S. sailor and former Navy SEAL last week while the service member was on personal travel, officials said Wednesday. [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt A Venezuelan judge has ordered the arrest of presidential candidate Edmundo González, who the United States and other governments say clearly beat the country's authoritarian president, Nicolás [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt Venezuela's attorney general's office filed an arrest warrant Monday against opposition candidate Edmundo González, who the United States and other countries say clearly beat the country's authoritarian [...]

Byline: Joel Achenbach, Samantha Schmidt The United States has seized a luxury aircraft that officials say was illegally purchased and âsmuggledâ out of the country for use by Venezuelan President [...]

Byline: Ana Vanessa Herrero, Samantha Schmidt, María Luisa Paúl CARACAS, Venezuela - Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets Saturday in protests across their country and in cities around the [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt, Marina Dias Venezuela's main opposition leaders are rejecting calls by two Latin American presidents that it hold new elections - this time with more democratic safeguards - [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt A U.N. panel of electoral experts said in a new report that Venezuela's national electoral authority fell short of following through on basic 'transparency and integrity measures [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung, Samantha Schmidt Correction: A previous version of this article misstated the first name of the opposition candidate in Venezuela's contested presidential election. He is Edmundo González. - [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt The young lawyer warned her followers on social media: President Nicolás Maduro's security forces were cracking down as she had never seen, even in authoritarian Venezuela. 'What [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt, Steven Rich, Ana Vanessa Herrero, María Luisa Paúl --- An analysis of precinct-level voting records collected and provided by the Venezuelan opposition shows that Edmundo González beat [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt, Matthew Hay Brown CARACAS, Venezuela - The United States on Thursday said opposition candidate Edmundo González defeated President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela's presidential election and called for [...]

Byline: Ana Vanessa Herrero, María Luisa Paúl, Samantha Schmidt CARACAS, Venezuela - Government security forces are detaining volunteer poll watchers who monitored the presidential election here Sunday, opposition leaders said, [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt, Ana Vanessa Herrero CARACAS, Venezuela - As Venezuelans poured into the streets for a second day of protests Tuesday, President Nicolás Maduro accused opposition leader María Corina [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt, Ana Vanessa Herrero CARACAS, Venezuela - Opposition leaders called on Venezuelans to assemble in Caracas on Tuesday to demand that President Nicolás Maduro accept what they said [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt, Ana Vanessa Herrero, María Luisa Paúl CARACAS, Venezuela - The Venezuelan opposition was hopeful of an election victory Sunday that could bring an end to the authoritarian [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt, Ana Vanessa Herrero, María Luisa Paúl CARACAS, Venezuela - The Venezuelan opposition was hopeful of an election victory Sunday that could bring an end to the authoritarian [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt, Leo Sands, Ana Vanessa Herrero, Marina Dias CARACAS, Venezuela - The United States and several Latin American countries cast doubt Monday on President Nicolás Maduro's reelection on [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt, Leo Sands, Ana Vanessa Herrero CARACAS, Venezuela - Several countries, including the United States and some Latin American nations, cast doubt on the results of Venezuela's presidential [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt, Ana Vanessa Herrero, María Luisa Paúl CARACAS, Venezuela - Tensions were high in voting centers across Venezuela on Sunday as beleaguered citizens cast ballots in an election [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt, Ana Vanessa Herrero CARACAS, Venezuela - After more than a decade in power, Venezuela's strongman, President Nicolás Maduro, is facing the greatest threat yet to his authoritarian [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt, Ana Vanessa Herrero LA GUAIRA, Venezuela - In the sweltering patio of a private home, two dozen volunteers listened carefully as an organizer prepared them for the [...]

Byline: Jeff Stein, Ellen Nakashima, Samantha Schmidt The Trump White House was warned that harsh sanctions on Venezuela could accelerate that country's economic collapse and speed an exodus of millions [...]

Byline: Ana Vanessa Herrero, Samantha Schmidt GUANARE, Venezuela - María Corina Machado's day began at 3 a.m., with the news that the head of her security team had been detained [...]