The United Nations' human rights chief voiced alarm Monday at widespread rights abuses in Venezuela, warning of possible "crimes against humanity" in the crisis-wracked country. "My investigation suggests the possibility that crimes against humanity may have been committed," Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said at the ...
Pope Francis wrapped up his Colombia trip with a deeply personal final day Sunday honoring St. Peter Claver, a fellow Jesuit who ministered to hundreds of thousands of African slaves who arrived in the port of Cartagena to be sold during Spanish colonial times. Francis' ...
French President Emmanuel Macron met with Venezuela opposition leaders Monday to discuss the embattled nation's humanitarian and political crisis, two days after a leading activist was barred from leaving the country in order to attend the Paris meeting. Foreign nations including Spain and the United ...
Guyanese authorities say they're seeing a significant increase in Venezuelans crossing the border seeking treatment for malaria and other ailments. Shamdeo Persaud is chief medical officer at the Medical Council of Guyana. He says the Venezuelans are being treated without charge. Persaud said Sunday that there's ...
The wife of one of Venezuela's top jailed opposition figures said airport agents on Saturday stopped her from traveling to meet the leaders of France, Germany, Spain and Britain. Opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez's wife said on Twitter that immigration officials confiscated her passport on orders ...
The Trump administration slapped sweeping financial sanctions on Venezuela on Friday, dramatically ratcheting up tensions between the two countries and making it harder for embattled President Nicolas Maduro to raise badly needed cash to prevent a debt default. The sanctions, which President Donald Trump signed ...
Venezuela's recently ousted chief prosecutor on Wednesday accused President Nicolas Maduro of participating in acts of corruption, saying she would turn over proof that would help other countries prosecute. Venezuela's government quickly fired back, accusing Luisa Ortega Diaz of "grave moral and ethical infractions." Ortega spoke ...
The Venezuelan ex-chief prosecutor who fled her country after being targeted by President Nicolas Maduro has left her first refuge stop in Colombia for Brazil, migration authorities said Tuesday. "Venezuelan Chief Attorney Luisa Ortega Diaz today left for Brazil, having carried out the necessary emigration ...
A young violinist who became a symbolic feature of Venezuelan protests over President Nicolas Maduro alleged Thursday he was tortured while held in army custody. Wuilly Arteaga, 23, made the claims after spending 19 days detained by Venezuela's National Guard following his arrest on July ...
Opposition candidates running in Venezuela's October gubernatorial elections will be investigated to make sure none was involved in violent political protests this year, the head of a new pro-government truth commission said on Wednesday. The panel was set up earlier in the day by the ...
President Donald Trump's talk of a "military option" in Venezuela risks alienating Latin American nations that overcame their reluctance to work with the Republican leader and had adopted a common, confrontational approach aimed at isolating President Nicolas Maduro's embattled government. Well before Maduro himself responded, ...
After months of attacking Venezuela's unpopular President Nicolas Maduro, Latin America came out strongly against U.S. threats of military action against the crisis-hit nation. U.S. President Donald Trump's surprise comments on Friday may bring the beleaguered Maduro some respite in the region, just as Venezuela ...
