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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 [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS CASEY HAVANA -- The rebels have blown up oil pipelines and blasted police stations in Colombia with homemade bombs. They take over highways, shutting down parts of the [...]

HAVANA -- The rebels have blown up oil pipelines and blasted police stations in Colombia with homemade bombs. They take over highways, shutting down parts of the country for days. [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS CASEY 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: ANA VANESSA HERRERO and NICHOLAS CASEY CARACAS, Venezuela -- In the presidential box stood the small cadre who run the country: a loyal general who was now the interior [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS CASEY 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 [...]

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 -- Iván Duque, a populist young conservative who tapped into dissatisfaction with the economy and a contentious peace deal with rebels, won Colombia's presidential vote on Sunday. Mr. [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump hosted an American citizen in the Oval Office on Saturday night just hours after a delegation led by one of Utah's senators succeeded in freeing the [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Nicolás Maduro won a second term as president of Venezuela, a country in the midst of a historic economic collapse marked by soaring prices, widespread hunger, [...]

CIUDAD GUYANA, Venezuela -- Julio Romero emerged from the flag-waving crowd as President Nicolás Maduro stood smiling on a stage, dancing to an election jingle. Mr. Romero, 42, was in [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela -- If there is one thing that particularly irks Henri Falcón, it's the suggestion that you can't beat a dictatorship. Mr. Falcón, a former governor, promises to defeat [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS CASEY and ANA VANESSA HERRERO CARACAS, Venezuela -- If there is one thing that particularly irks Henri Falcón, it's the suggestion that you can't beat a dictatorship. Mr. [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS CASEY CONCEPCIÓN, Bolivia -- The aging musical score wasn't easy to read. It was a copy of a copy of a Latin Mass by the 18th-century composer Domenico [...]

LIMA, Peru -- For the heads of state mingling in the meeting halls, it was the leader who had been uninvited to the gathering who posed the biggest challenge. President [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

VALENCIA, Venezuela -- It began as a jailhouse party. It ended in carnage. On Thursday, grieving families collected their dead after one of the worst prison fires in the country's [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

MEXICO CITY -- Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, met with Mexico's president on Wednesday, arriving just weeks after a planned meeting between the nations' leaders fell apart [...]

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 [...]

TUMACO, Colombia -- The deal that ended decades of war in Colombia hinged on a simple formula: The rebels would surrender their weapons, and in exchange, earn the right 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 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 [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS CASEY LA PAZ, Bolivia -- When he was 46, Rene Paucara voted for Evo Morales, helping elect him as Bolivia's first indigenous president in 2005. At 56, Mr. [...]

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 [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS CASEY 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, [...]

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. [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS CASEY The end had come for Óscar Pérez. Blood streamed down the rebel's face. His men were fighting behind cabinets and ovens as the Venezuelan government closed in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: SHEERA FRENKEL, NICHOLAS CASEY and PAUL MOZUR SAN FRANCISCO -- One morning in October, the editors of Página Siete, Bolivia's third-largest news site, noticed that traffic to their outlet [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- One morning in October, the editors of Página Siete, Bolivia's third-largest news site, noticed that traffic to their outlet coming from Facebook was plummeting. The publication had [...]

MEDELLÍN, Colombia -- Colombia's fragile peace was shaken on Wednesday as the National Liberation Army, a guerrilla group known as the ELN, attacked a military base and an oil pipeline [...]