Juan Manuel Contreras, a church singer and laid-off electrical utility worker, had been honking his car horn and shouting through a megaphone out the window for the past half hour when he turned to me with a question one might only address to a newly arrived foreigner in Mexico. "Is this your first battle?"
"Prepare yourself, we are coming for you," President Nicolás Maduro warned demonstrators in an address to thousands of soldiers gathered in support of the president on March 15. He then played John Lennon's song, "Give Peace a Chance."
CARACAS, Venezuela – After nearly a month of anti-government protests and street clashes, the one figure who may be capable of guiding Venezuela out of its crisis is a bearded, disheveled 24-year-old who lives with his parents.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – The conservative candidate in El Salvador's tight presidential runoff, in which no winner has been declared, on Tuesday demanded a new vote be held.
Eight foreigners are being "held for international terrorism," including U.S. freelance reporter Andrew Rosati, who writes for the Miami Herald, a team of journalists from the U.S.-based Associated Press and Italian photographer Francesca Commissari, who works for the local daily El Nacional.
CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela's opposition on Wednesday spurned the crisis talks that the government called to try to halt three weeks of protests that have left 14 dead.
Thousands of public employees on Tuesday marched eight blocks through the capital to protest a 0.43 percent wage hike approved by the government this month.
CARACAS, Venezuela – Fugitive Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López calmly turned himself in to authorities Tuesday at a tumultuous rally in Caracas as his followers shouted "Freedom! Freedom!"
