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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. [...]

The secrets came directly from the phones of President Lenín Moreno of Ecuador: intimate pictures of him and his family on vacation, text messages from his wife, even a photograph [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration announced on Friday its latest round of economic sanctions against the government of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, this time aimed at oil shipments between [...]

In his bid to maintain power over a crumbling nation, President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela has returned to a strategy that has served him well in the past: Hold tight [...]

Yansnier Arias knew it was wrong. It violated the Constitution, not to mention the oath he took as a doctor in Cuba. He had been sent to Venezuela by the [...]

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 [...]

CõCUTA, Colombia -- The narrative seemed to fit Venezuela's authoritarian rule: Security forces, on the order of President Nicolás Maduro, had torched a convoy of humanitarian aid as millions in [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Juan Guaidó, the Venezuelan opposition leader, returned to the country on Monday and gave a speech before cheering crowds in defiance of President Nicolás Maduro, who had [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

CõCUTA, Colombia -- The first in a wave of defectors was a sergeant in Venezuela's national guard: He sneaked over the border into Colombia in early February and declared he [...]

CõCUTA, Colombia -- Border standoffs may not get much stranger than this one. Three presidents, a military plane and a lineup of pop artists brought by a British billionaire arrived [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

CõCUTA, Colombia -- The political showdown over the delivery of aid to Venezuela turned deadly Friday when its security forces fired on protesters near the country's Brazilian border, killing two [...]

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 [...]

MEDELLÍN, Colombia -- President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela ordered its border with Brazil closed Thursday, part of his escalating effort to stop opponents from sending humanitarian aid into his poverty-stricken [...]

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 [...]

MEDELLÍN, Colombia -- Venezuela's government said on Wednesday that it was closing its border to air and sea traffic from three Caribbean islands in an effort to block aid shipments [...]

MIAMI -- President Trump on Monday delivered his sharpest warning yet to Venezuela's military authorities in an increasingly tense showdown over that country's crisis, proclaiming they would ''lose everything'' by [...]

CõCUTA, Colombia -- The battle over the legitimate leadership of Venezuela -- which has included rallies of thousands, international diplomacy and oil sanctions -- is now focused on a single [...]

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 [...]

WASHINGTON -- He cannot get into the locked Venezuelan Embassy in Georgetown, has no staff and does not even live in a permanent residence in Washington.Venezuela's new ambassador to the [...]

Juan Guaidó, the Venezuelan opposition leader, wrote in an opinion article published Wednesday evening that his opposition coalition had met with members of the powerful armed forces to galvanize support [...]

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 [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration imposed sanctions against Venezuela's state-owned oil company on Monday, seeking to cripple the government of embattled President Nicolás Maduro by cutting off its main source [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

REVENTADOR, Ecuador -- The dam sits under the glare of an active volcano, with columns of ash spewing toward the sky.Officials had warned against the dam for decades. Geologists said [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS CASEY 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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: KENNETH P. VOGEL and NICHOLAS CASEY Correction Appended WASHINGTON -- In mid-May 2017, Paul Manafort, facing intensifying pressure to settle debts and pay mounting legal bills, flew to Ecuador [...]

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 [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS CASEY The opulent lifestyle of the Andrade family was as spectacular as the economic collapse of the country they left behind. Venezuelan immigrants, the family lived in a [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS CASEY CACHICHIRA, Bolivia -- The hunt began at nightfall under a crescent moon and with a chorus of frogs, which suddenly went silent when the rifles fired and [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS CASEY 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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS CASEY MEDELLÍN, Colombia -- When the mayor of Medellín showed up, he was bearing a sledgehammer. He stood with it in front of the former home of Pablo [...]

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 [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS CASEY and FEDERICO RIOS ESCOBAR Under a torn Colombian flag on a windy hilltop, a ragtag guerrilla militia gathers. One fighter is missing an arm. Another, a leg. [...]

Under a torn Colombian flag on a windy hilltop, a ragtag guerrilla militia gathers. One fighter is missing an arm. Another, a leg. A commander who can barely read but [...]