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Yet another imprudent fix in a land plagued by vigilante handymen led to angry calls to find the culprit -- and to a soul-searching question: Does Spain just have too [...]

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 [...]

The arrest of Mr. Puigdemont, on the island of Sardinia, came on a warrant issued by Spain's Supreme Court on charges of sedition. MADRID -- Carles Puigdemont, the former separatist [...]

Soulaimane Raissouni, who has been held without trial for over a year, is more than 80 days into a hunger strike. For years, Soulaimane Raissouni, a Moroccan newspaper editor, didn't [...]

A major step toward defusing tensions in a conflict that has long divided Spain prompted mixed reactions from an independence movement. MADRID -- Spain's government on Tuesday approved pardons to [...]

Con artists and swindlers have long captured headlines in Spain. Now the country has a novel solution: A rehabilitation program aiming to ''reinsert'' corrupt officials back into society. CÔRDOBA, Spain [...]

A Catalan separatist leader, Jordi Cuixart, is serving a nine-year prison sentence for supporting a failed independence bid in his Spanish region. His supporters say he should not be in [...]

Nearly two weeks of sometimes violent demonstrations have turned into a collective outcry from young adults who see bleak futures and precious time lost to lockdowns. BARCELONA -- It had [...]

MEDELLÍN, Colombia -- United States officials have accused President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela of a corruption scheme in which his officials, family members and business partners made off with large [...]

MEDELLÍN, Colombia -- Colombia's House of Representatives opened a debate on Monday to censure the country's defense minister, amid national criticism that the military had issued orders this year encouraging [...]

President Iván Duque of Colombia, under fire over concerns that his military may be committing human rights abuses in its pursuit of armed groups, said Friday that he was appointing [...]

He is one of the most powerful leaders of the Venezuelan government, a hard-liner who has put down protests, confronted rebels and been a constant presence at the side of [...]

LIMA, Peru -- A former president of Peru died on Wednesday after shooting himself in the head when the authorities tried to arrest him in connection with one of the [...]

MADRID -- A former Venezuelan spy chief has been arrested by Spanish authorities who acted on an extradition request from the United States, where he is wanted for drug trafficking. [...]

BOGOTÁ, Colombia -- A Colombian prosecutor assigned to investigate the country's largest former rebel group was arrested and accused of accepting a bribe in the case of a former rebel [...]

BOGOTÂ, Colombia -- Jorge Ramos, a news anchor for the television network Univision, said he was detained by the Venezuelan government during a confrontational interview with President Nicolás Maduro on [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela -- A former intelligence chief in Venezuela who is one of the government's most prominent figures turned against President Nicolás Maduro on Thursday, calling him a dictator with [...]

BOGOTÁ, Colombia -- The suspect in a car bombing that left 21 people dead on Thursday in the Colombian capital, Bogotá, was a member of the largest guerrilla group remaining [...]

BOGOTÁ, Colombia -- A car bomb exploded in front of a Bogotá police academy Thursday morning, killing at least 21 people, wounding 68 and spreading fear about a revival of [...]

WASHINGTON -- In mid-May 2017, Paul Manafort, facing intensifying pressure to settle debts and pay mounting legal bills, flew to Ecuador to offer his services to a potentially lucrative new [...]

JAMUNDÍ, Colombia -- First, he survived a machete attack. Months later, he begged a shadowy armed group to spare his life after hearing that his name appeared on its hit [...]

LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Keiko Fujimori, a powerful Peruvian politician whose father ruled the country in the 1990s, was arrested in a money laundering investigation on Wednesday, calling into question [...]

LIMA, Peru -- Alberto Fujimori, the former Peruvian dictator imprisoned for human rights abuses but then pardoned last year, was ordered back to prison on Wednesday, reigniting debate over the [...]

MEDELLÍN, Colombia -- Venezuelan authorities ordered the arrest of a former National Assembly leader on Wednesday in connection with what they said was a weekend assassination attempt against President Nicolás [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela -- In the presidential box stood the small cadre who run the country: a loyal general who was now the interior minister, the chief judge of the Supreme [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Explosions caused pandemonium at a military ceremony where President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela was speaking on Saturday, making the first lady flinch and sending National Guard troops [...]

MEDELLÍN, Colombia -- Álvaro Uribe, a powerful former president of Colombia, said Tuesday that he was resigning from his Senate seat after the Supreme Court disclosed that it was widening [...]

SANTA ROSA DE OSOS, Colombia -- One witness told prosecutors about the corpses floating in a river on the ranch. Another, a ranch hand, described a death squad boss roaming [...]

MEDELLIN, Colombia -- At least 17 people were killed in a stampede during a graduation party at a nightclub in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, authorities said on Saturday. Néstor Reverol, [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Álvaro Uribe, a powerful former Colombian president whose handpicked candidate for the presidency is the front-runner in coming elections, was repeatedly accused in communications to diplomats of [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Fresh off his re-election in what critics called a rigged vote, President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela on Tuesday ordered the top American diplomat and his deputy expelled, [...]

LIMA, Peru -- Marxist rebels have killed two journalists and their driver abducted near the southern border of Colombia and Ecuador, President Lenín Moreno of Ecuador said Friday. The three [...]

LIMA, Peru -- After less than two years in office, Peru's embattled president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, offered his resignation on Wednesday, a day after the release of videos that showed [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela -- The Venezuelan government on Tuesday arrested a former interior minister who had become a prominent government critic, claiming that he had plotted violent attacks in the country. [...]

BOGOTÂ, Colombia -- The crowd gathered here in the capital, wearing white shirts and waving campaign signs, as what had once been Colombia's largest rebel group opened its campaign for [...]

MEDELLÍN, Colombia -- Ôscar Pérez, a helicopter pilot and former police officer who led an armed rebel band against the isolated and embattled government of Venezuela, was killed in a [...]

MEDELLÍN, Colombia -- President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela ordered a temporary shutdown of air and maritime traffic with three Caribbean neighbors on Friday, accusing smugglers there of seeking to plunder [...]

LIMA, Peru -- In this seaside capital, the tales of graft were multiplying like the potholes. There was the unfinished highway to the airport that had left a trail of [...]

LIMA, Peru -- Lawmakers voted on Friday to begin proceedings that could oust President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski of Peru, the latest leader accused of involvement in a corruption scandal that [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Masked government agents stormed the homes of two former top officials of Venezuela's state oil company and arrested them on Thursday, a move that the prosecutor heralded [...]

BOGOTÂ, Colombia -- It could have been any beauty pageant in Latin America as two dozen contestants, wearing gold cocktail dresses, stood expectantly on the stage. But when the moment [...]

MEDELLÍN, Colombia -- President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela received at least $35 million in bribes from a Brazilian construction company in 2013, according to a video posted on a blog [...]

BOGOTÂ, Colombia -- A scandal involving a Brazilian construction giant has widened with the jailing of Ecuador's vice president as part of an investigation into accusations of bribery. The authorities [...]

Venezuelan officials took action against two political dissidents on Wednesday, raiding the home of the country's ousted attorney general and ordering the arrest of her husband, whom they accused of [...]

Venezuela's Supreme Court sentenced on Tuesday an opposition mayor to 15 months in jail, as the government continued its crackdown on the opposition. The mayor, Ramón Muchacho, who led the [...]

It was an outlandish attack on Venezuela's centers of power: A police helicopter swooped down from a clear sky while someone inside dropped grenades on the Supreme Court and opened [...]

A rogue faction of the Venezuelan police attacked the country's Supreme Court in Caracas on Tuesday, dropping grenades from a helicopter, government officials said. It was a rare uprising by [...]

Venezuela's Supreme Court said Tuesday that it had begun an investigation that could lead to the removal of the country's attorney general from office, a step that was widely viewed [...]

The Trump administration announced sanctions against eight members of Venezuela's Supreme Court, singling out judges loyal to President Nicolás Maduro who tried to dissolve the country's legislature this year. The [...]

BOGOTÂ, Colombia -- Cheers erupted as the protesters toppled the statue of former President Hugo Chávez, the metal cracking against concrete. The scenes, distributed around Venezuela on social media, showed [...]