The U.S. bombings of drug boats have increased security patrols in Sucre, Venezuela, inciting fear among locals. This northeastern region, vulnerable due to poverty, sees enhanced surveillance from ...

A democratic transition could set off a bonanza worth almost $2trn, reckons the opposition leader and Nobel laureate ...

Alnilys Chirino’s tiny fridge and pantry are almost empty — a handful of peppers and wilting herbs, a kilo of rice, half that of beans, a bit of canned meat, some flour. Chirino used to worry about ...

Billionaires in the leading economies made $2.2 trillion last year, which would have been enough to lift all the world's poor ...

GÜIRIA, Venezuela — On Venezuela’s Paria Peninsula, an idyllic stretch of Caribbean coast, it is an open secret that boats departing from its ports transport both drugs and fish. Residents claim not ...