Incumbent President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a controversial third term on January 10, after the National Electoral Council (CNE) declared he won Venezuela’s disputed July 28 elections without publishing results.

Despite domestic and international opposition, the president has consolidated his hold over the socialist state.

Caracas Archbishop Raúl Biord opened the jubilee year in Venezuela with a call for “respect for human and citizen rights.”

(AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez) Venezuela’s opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, right, and Argentine President Javier Milei hold hands from ... and Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou meet in Montevideo, Uruguay, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025.

Venezuela’s government has ramped up repression, triggering a protest from one of its closest allies, as the opposition plans nationwide demonstrations against Nicolás Maduro’s inauguration as president this week.

Argentina's Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni said in an interview with Montevideo's El País that Presidents Luis Lacalle Pou and Javier Milei had different points of view regarding the State ...

Argentina's annual inflation rate fell to 117.8 percent in 2024, marking a significant drop of 93.6 points compared to the record 211.4 percent inflation

Argentina brought in its first budget surplus in more than a decade in 2024, data published on Friday showed, marking a win for libertarian President Javier Milei and his sweeping austerity push in his first full year in office.

Argentina's government said Friday it had produced the country's first budget surplus in more than a decade in 2024, after a year of drastic austerity by libertarian President Javier Milei, whose term has also seen inflation fall.

Costa Rica.- Edmundo González Urrutia, recognized by several nations as Venezuela’s president-elect, will attend Donald Trump’s inauguration as U.S. president on Monday in Washington. Currently based in Costa Rica,

The Uruguayan Government of President Luis Lacalle Pou has found in Javier Milei's Argentina the partner it longed for within the Southern Common Market to clear the way for individual members of ...