Frank Bajak
Monday, March 31, 2014 - 00:00
President Nicolas Maduro has done nothing to publicly discourage the violence by armed pro-government militants, loosely known as "colectivos".
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 00:00
Students (...) mission: to broaden support for their anti-government protest movement in the low-income barrios whose working poor the late President Hugo Chavez championed.
Thursday, February 13, 2014 - 00:00
Hundreds of foreign "drug mules" - authorities can't provide a more specific number - are trapped in this Andean nation that recently surpassed Colombia as the world's No. 1 cocaine producer.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 00:00
The case appears to be the first of an Ecuadorean public figure's electronic privacy being violated for political ends.
Monday, January 13, 2014 - 00:00
The Massachusetts-based nonprofit run by Joseph P. Kennedy II that has distributed nearly a half billion dollars' worth of Venezuela-donated home heating oil in the U.S. since 2005 has not yet received this winter's shipment
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 00:00
The smuggling of 1.4 tons of cocaine in 31 suitcases on an Air France flight from Caracas to Paris has led to nine arrests on two continents.
Monday, June 17, 2013 - 00:00
Illegal armed groups believed to be largely in the hire of owners of ill-gotten land are threatening a bold, unprecedented effort by President Juan Manuel Santos' government to return vast expanses of land stolen from poor farmers
Monday, May 20, 2013 - 00:00
An Organization of American States study released Friday is calling for a serious discussion on legalizing marijuana.
Friday, April 26, 2013 - 00:00
A 35-year-old filmmaker from California has been arrested by Venezuelan authorities who are accusing him of fomenting postelection violence on behalf of the U.S. government.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 00:00
Indigenous groups in the Pastaza River basin near the Ecuador border have been complaining for years about the pollution and the failure of successive governments to address it.