At least 80 people are dead and more than 11,000 have been forced to flee their homes in Colombia, officials say, amid fierce clashes between two rival armed groups on the border with Venezuela. The violence, in a northeast region called Catatumbo, is some of the worst the country has suffered through in recent years, […]

The Biden Administration said on Friday that it was offering $25 million for information leading to the arrest of Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela. The announcement is Washington’s retaliatory measure for Mr. Maduro’s decision to assume a third term in office on Friday. Mr. Maduro has presented no evidence that he won a July […]

He is an autocrat condemned inside and outside his country as having stolen the nation’s last election. Yet on Friday, Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan president who has overseen his country’s dramatic decline — including runaway inflation, blackouts, hunger, mass migration and the unraveling of the nation’s democracy — is set to be sworn in for […]

Venezuela’s popular opposition leader, María Corina Machado, was briefly detained by adversaries during an antigovernment protest in Caracas on Thursday, according to a statement on X by a political aide. But she was soon released. Ms. Machado was “violently intercepted as she left the gathering,” her party said on X. “Regime troops shot at the […]

Venezuela’s popular opposition leader, María Corina Machado, was detained during an anti-government protest in Caracas on Thursday, according to a statement on X by her party, Vente Venezuela. Ms. Machado had been living in hiding amid threats of arrest from government officials, and this was her first public appearance since August. It was initially unclear […]

The man widely called the true winner of Venezuela’s tainted presidential election said on Tuesday that his son-in-law had been kidnapped by hooded men in Caracas, the capital. Edmundo González said that his son-in-law, Rafael Tudares, was walking Mr. González’s grandchildren to school when he was “intercepted” by hooded men dressed in black, and taken […]

He is widely believed to have won Venezuela’s presidential election, and by a landslide. But on Monday, instead of making preparations for his swearing-in at the palm-lined palace in Caracas, Edmundo González was at the White House meeting with President Biden. The encounter, a first for the two men, signals Mr. Biden’s desire to present […]

Former President Nicolas Sarkozy of France on Monday went on trial in Paris over accusations that his 2007 campaign received illegal financing from the Libyan government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. The trial, which is scheduled to last three months, is far from the first for Mr. Sarkozy, 69, a conservative politician who led France from […]