Even before the first phase is completed, the fragile cease-fire agreement that has paused 15 months of war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas faces increasingly long odds ...

The mountains of Catatumbo in eastern Colombia are so dangerous that the police and army generally don’t stray far from their barracks for fear of snipers.

Where the Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, lightning strikes up to 300 times a year for as many as 9 hours a night. "Catatumbo Lightning," also known as the Maracaibo Beacon, holds ...

The Colombian border village of Tres Bocas has become a ghost town as residents flee to neighboring Venezuela to escape a new ...

WOLA joins the United Nations, Human Rights Ombudsman, Defendemos la Paz, and others calling for an immediate end to the violence perpetrated by illegal armed groups in the Catatumbo region in ...

Spread the loveIntroduction Welcome to Maracaibo, the second-largest city in Venezuela, located on the shores of Lake ...

The Catatumbo region, in the northeast of Colombia and bordering Venezuela, has lived for decades between armed conflict and state neglect, but that does not mean it has become accustomed to the ...

Nay Maps is a South African actor born on 30th March 1989. He is the firstborn of three children born to the late Bishop Simeon Maphalala and his wife. Maps grew up alongside his two younger sisters ...

Today, Brazil, Cuba, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela are among the Latin American countries with the largest Chinese diaspora communities. Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI ...

It is not certain when Jews first arrived in Venezuela, but most accounts suggest that there were Conversos living in Caracas and Maracaibo in the mid-16th century. Though there were no established ...

Venezuela has released 10 Americans and “Fat Leonard,” the man behind a Navy bribery scandal in a prisoner exchange in which President Biden granted clemency to a financier of Venezuelan ...

In recent weeks, he has been vowing to travel to Venezuela to be sworn in for the presidential term, which according to law must begin Jan. 10. But he hasn’t said how he plans to return or wrest ...