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The governing party emerged victorious from a snap election, but without the majority needed to avoid forming a coalition in the fractious Parliament. LISBON -- Portugal's governing Socialist Party was [...]

Protesters in Barcelona are pushing back against foreign investment firms that have bought up thousands of homes over the past decade and are forcing out residents who can't pay the [...]

The moderate Justice and Development Party may have lost control of Parliament, according to early results, in the latest defeat for Islamists in the region. Morocco's moderate Islamist party suffered [...]

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 [...]

Gósol, a tiny village on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees, had spent years begging outsiders to come repopulate it. Since 2020, many have come to try the quiet life [...]

Although the pandemic has been a unifying force in much of Europe, parties seeking to create a breakaway state for Catalonia received a majority of votes in a regional election. [...]

''Do we really want 538 Bob Nemanichs electing our president?'' Bob Nemanich, a former elector, doesn't. And he is hopeful that 2020 might put future electors out of a gig. [...]

Pinellas County, Fla., has it all: Jeep clubs for Biden, Trump fans who think Fox News is too mainstream -- and the potential to decide the race. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. [...]

Bobby White was celebrated as the ''Basketball Cop'' after millions saw a video of him shooting hoops with local teenagers. A recording from two years earlier shows him throwing a [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- The two men were strangers and stood steps from the courthouse that had once sent them both to prison. Julius Irving spoke first. He said he had [...]

Comparative politics didn't used to be a best-selling topic that got people booked on cable news. That was before Trump. ITHACA, N.Y. -- Each prognosis was bleaker than the next. [...]

The turmoil that has roiled Peru for more than a year reached a turning point this week, when the president dissolved Congress and a rival briefly claimed to lead the [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Venezuela's government and the opposition ended a round of negotiations on Wednesday night with no agreement, a setback for those bidding to unseat President Nicolás Maduro, who have seen their [...]

Colombia's army walked back on Tuesday part of a contentious policy to step up attacks in the country, saying it would change its pledge forms in which officers are required [...]

A day after the Venezuelan opposition's call for a military uprising failed, the country's political crisis returned to a protracted standoff punctuated by violence on Wednesday, with the government and [...]

MARACAIBO, Venezuela -- The city was collapsing long before the lights went out. But then came the blackout -- and with it, anarchy. For days and nights, unruly crowds sacked [...]

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 [...]

CõCUTA, Colombia -- As the humanitarian aid at the heart of a Venezuelan border standoff remained shut in warehouses on Sunday, and with President Nicolás Maduro's blockade still intact, it [...]

CõCUTA, Colombia -- An ambitious plan by Venezuela's opposition to peacefully import foreign aid in truck convoys degenerated into deadly skirmishes Saturday along the impoverished country's borders, with a smattering [...]

PAMPLONA, Colombia -- The walking began before dawn: before the clouds broke against the mountaintops, before the trucks took over the highway, even before anyone in the town woke up [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan opposition supporters poured into the streets on Saturday, heeding a call from their leaders to stage another day of peaceful protests against [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela -- The agents barged into the home of Yonaiker Ordóñez, 18, on Sunday morning as he slept. Dressed in helmets and carrying rifles, the men grabbed the teenager [...]

When Venezuelans took to the streets this week to demand a return to democracy, they chose a date with deep historic significance: Jan. 23, the day a dictatorship collapsed in [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela -- A group of soldiers turned against the government and declared allegiance to the opposition. Foreign officials say the government could soon run out of money to meet [...]

CARMEN DEL EMERO, Bolivia -- In this remote indigenous village in Bolivia, the rule has been the same for generations: Leaders can be re-elected only once. After that, they must [...]

MEDELLÍN, Colombia -- Colombia has more land producing the plant used to make cocaine than ever in its history, according to new figures from the United Nations' crime watchdog. The [...]

MEDELLÍN, Colombia -- Faced with nearly incomprehensible inflation -- 32,714 percent as of Wednesday -- Venezuelan officials thought they had a solution: They changed the color of the bank notes [...]

BOGOTÁ, Colombia -- The widely circulated videos seemed to capture a presidency in free fall. One shows President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela chased by a hungry mob brandishing pots and [...]

MEDELLÍN, Colombia -- The prediction was eye-popping even for Venezuela's collapsing economy: One million percent inflation by year's end, according to the International Monetary Fund. On Monday, the fund released [...]

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 [...]

BOGOTÁ, Colombia -- The two candidates of Colombia's far-right and left wing parties came out ahead in a first-round vote on Sunday to choose the country's next leader, setting the [...]

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, [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela -- One day after President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela declared re-election victory, the Trump administration on Monday placed new sanctions on the crisis-ridden country, and nations across the [...]

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 [...]

HANGA ROA, Easter Island -- The human bones lay baking in the sun. It wasn't the first time Hetereki Huke had stumbled upon an open grave like this one. For [...]

MEDELLÍN, Colombia -- Colombians elected a divided Congress on Sunday in voting that showed deep polarization but offered little resolution of the country's main political disputes, including battling corruption and [...]

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 [...]

HUARAZ, Peru AT 50, Americo González Caldua has lived a life that coincided with the retreat of the glaciers of the high Andes. With each passing year, as the cold [...]

The end had come for Ôscar Pérez. Blood streamed down the rebel's face. His men were fighting behind cabinets and ovens as the Venezuelan government closed in on their hide-out. [...]

In a deadly shootout on Monday that transfixed Venezuela, security forces surrounded the Caracas hide-out of a rebel band led by a rogue helicopter pilot who was once an action [...]

INTUTO, Peru -- Amadeo García García rushed upriver in his canoe, slipping into the hidden, booby-trapped camp where his brother Juan lay dying. Juan writhed in pain and shook uncontrollably [...]

BOGOTÂ, Colombia -- Leading prayers before a huge crowd in Bogotá, the capital, Pope Francis on Thursday urged Colombians to avoid ''the thirst for revenge'' and finally accept peace, whose [...]

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 [...]

BOGOTÂ, Colombia -- Fugitive Venezuelan soldiers have declared a rebellion against ''the murderous tyranny'' of the president. Dissident officers have fled the country, seeking asylum. Grenades have been fired at [...]

BOGOTÂ, Colombia -- Armed men in military uniforms and camouflage released a video early Sunday morning calling for Venezuelans to rebel against President Nicolás Maduro after his party established an [...]

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 [...]