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In the years since Juan Carlos, Spain's former king, fled the country to escape corruption investigations, some of the cases have been resolved or dropped. Now Spaniards are weighing whether [...]

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain met with the leader of Catalonia in an attempt to resolve the fate of the region. MADRID -- Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain [...]

AMERICUS, Ga. -- One mother worked at Habitat for Humanity. The other helped teenagers who had run afoul of the law. Their sons played soccer together, and for a few [...]

Byline: Nicholas Casey When Ohio released a list of people it planned to strike from its voting rolls, around 40,000 people shouldn't have been on it. The state only found [...]

MEDELLÍN, Colombia -- A former top commander of Colombia's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces, vowed a return to war and issued a new call to arms on Thursday, [...]

Byline: Nicholas Casey CHAGUARAMAS, Trinidad and Tobago - She slipped out of the house around dusk, without telling her mother. Sixteen and hungry, she followed the men who had promised [...]

CHAGUARAMAS, Trinidad and Tobago -- She slipped out of the house around dusk, without telling her mother. Sixteen and hungry, she followed the men who had promised her work and [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDSANTIAGO, Chile -- What will happen to Venezuela's opposition leader, and the movement he leads, when he returns to Venezuela? That question has been asked across South America since [...]

Byline: ERNESTO LONDOÑO and NICHOLAS CASEY Correction Appended The Trump administration held secret meetings with rebellious military officers from Venezuela over the last year to discuss their plans to overthrow [...]

The Trump administration held secret meetings with rebellious military officers from Venezuela over the last year to discuss their plans to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro, according to American officials and [...]

LIMA, Peru -- As the region's leaders converged for a summit in this seaside capital, it had the feel of an escape from the scandals raging at home. But their [...]

MEDELLÍN, Colombia -- Venezuela's government said Thursday that it was postponing the presidential election until May 20, allowing an extra month before the country's snap vote but doing little to [...]

BOGOTÁ, Colombia -- The Venezuelan government said Wednesday that it would hold a snap presidential election on April 22, putting the unpopular administration of President Nicolás Maduro in the hands [...]

BOGOTÂ, Colombia -- The memory of the land mine that tore off the leg of Helena González's nephew years ago is still fresh. Ms. González, 25, has spent much of [...]

Venezuela's new Constituent Assembly granted itself wide powers to write and pass legislation on Friday, a move that essentially nullifies the opposition-led legislature and puts President Nicolás Maduro's party firmly [...]

President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela had become a pariah among fellow Latin American leaders as his beleaguered country staggered toward dictatorship. But a threat by President Trump to use the [...]

BOGOTÂ, Colombia -- Members of President Nicolás Maduro's governing party marched triumphantly into Venezuela's Capitol building on Friday, calling to order a 545-member body with plans to rewrite the Constitution [...]

BOGOTÂ, Colombia -- The president's son. The president's wife. A radical television-show host who appears in a red military beret and broadcasts embarrassing recordings of opposition politicians secretly taped by [...]

BOGOTÂ, Colombia -- The government agents barged into the homes of two prominent former mayors, hauling them off to jail in the dark. They dragged one of them into the [...]

BOGOTÂ, Colombia -- The legitimacy of Sunday's election to overhaul Venezuela's Constitution was under threat as many voters avoided the ballot box, nations across the region rejected the predetermined result [...]

One by one, the markers of Venezuela's democracy have been pushed aside. First, the Supreme Court was packed with loyalists of the president, and several opposition lawmakers were blocked from [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBOGOTÂ, Colombia -- President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela said Monday that he would convene an assembly to rewrite the country's Constitution, which he said would quell mounting protests against [...]

The photo suggested promise. On the sidelines of a peace ceremony in Colombia, President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and Secretary of State John Kerry met for the kind of brief [...]

Flush with oil money and political bravado, Hugo Chávez of Venezuela used his United Nations platform a decade ago to call George W. Bush the devil. Thursday's speech will most [...]

Gustavo Moncayo was a primary-school teacher when he got the news that every father feared: His son, an 18-year-old soldier in the Colombian Army, had been kidnapped by rebels. It [...]

Colombia's government and the largest rebel group in the country have reached a deal to end more than 50 years of conflict, the two sides announced Wednesday, paving the way [...]

Retailer Abercrombie & Fitch Co. reports a first-quarter net loss of $26.8 million, compared to a net profit of $62.1 million a year earlier. Sales dropped 24% to $612.1 million from $800.2 million the year before. Gross margin fell 3.5 points to 63.3%. In an effort the win back customers, Abercrombie said it would lower prices.

Abercrombie & Fitch reports a 68% fourth-quarter drop in net income to $68.4 million, and a 19% drop in sales to $998 million. To cut costs, the company plans to reduce the number of new-store openings in the U.S., and cut capital expenditures to between $165 million to $175 million. Abercrombie's shares rose 10% to close at $22.78 on Friday.

Citing a downturn in the economy, toy manufacturer Mattel Inc. plans to cut 1,000 professional and executive positions from its global workforce thorough layoffs, retirement offers, and hiring freezes. Last month, the company had reported a slight increase in net income to $238.1 million, and a 6% increase in sales to $1.95 billion. Mattel's shares closed down 3% at $14.52 on New York Stock Exchange composite trading on Thursday.

Americans Lesley Enriquez and her husband, Arthur Redelfs were killed along with a Jorge Alberto Salcido, a Mexican citizen in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez. The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation is assisting Mexican police in their investigation of the shootings. Enrique was an employee of the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, as was the wife of Jorge Salcido.

A California appellate court has questioned the ethics of a settlement of a sexual harassment suit between American Apparel Inc. and its chief executive Dov Charney, and the plaintiff, former sales executive Mary Nelson. A condition of the $1.3 settlement was Nelson's participation in an arbitration which would have an outcome favorable to Charney and the company. Nelson declined to attend the arbitration.

Athletic footwear company Finish Line Inc. is looking to acquire clothier Genesco Inc. for $1.5 billion in order to move into other fashion areas as the market for athletic shoes cools.