Read the latest news from regional and global sources, presenting different voices and perspectives.
Venezuela’s returning migrants allege abuses in the notorious El Salvador prison the U.S. sent them to
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
·
Carlos Uzcátegui, one of the Venezuelan migrants deported months ago to El Salvador by the United States under an immigration crackdown, is welcomed home by relatives and neighbors in Lobatera, Venezuela, Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (AP...
Baltimore man among 10 freed in prisoner swap with Venezuela
Baltimore Banner - Maryland
·
July 25, 2025
A longtime Baltimore media producer was among 10 U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents freed in a recent prisoner swap from what U.S. officials have called a series of wrongful detentions in Venezuela. Erick Oribio Quintana, a dual...
Colombia and Venezuela announce the creation of the first “Binational Economic Zone of Peace”
Latin America Reports
·
July 25, 2025
Caracas, Venezuela – Last week, Colombia and Venezuela signed a memorandum of understanding to create the first binational economic zone on the border that the two countries share. Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez signed the agreement...
Latin American champion, Venezuelan little league team denied U.S. visas
CBS 4 Miami - Florida
·
A Venezuelan baseball team was denied visas into the United States and will miss this year's Senior Baseball World Series, Little League International confirmed Friday. The Cacique Mara team, from Maracaibo, Venezuela, was scheduled to participate...
Venezuelan baseball team unable to get visas for tournament in Easley
Fox News - South Carolina
·
July 23, 2025
EASLEY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Little League® International announced that a Venezuelan baseball team has been denied visas to play in the Senior League Baseball World Series in Easley. The program said it was notified that the Cacique Mara Little...
Venezuela's returning migrants allege abuses in El Salvador's ‘hell’ prison where U.S. sent them
Spectrum News Austin
·
July 23, 2025
LOBATERA, Venezuela (AP) — Carlos Uzcátegui tightly hugged his sobbing wife and stepdaughter on Wednesday as the morning fog in western Venezuela lifted. The family's first embrace in more than a year finally convinced him that his nightmare...
US Denies Visas To Venezuelan Little League Baseball Team
Newsweek
·
July 25, 2025
A Venezuelan Little League Baseball team has been denied visas into the United States ahead of the Senior League Baseball World Series. Little League International confirmed Friday that the Cacique Mara team, from Maracaibo, Venezuela, was set to...
'Extremely disappointing': Little Leaguers denied visas into US due to Trump travel ban
Raw Story
·
July 25, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration has denied a Venezuelan Little League team from coming into the United States to compete in the Senior League World Series. Little League International confirmed to Newsweek on Friday that the Cacique Mara...
Venezuela’s returning migrants allege abuses in El Salvador’s ‘hell’ prison where U.S. sent them
Los Angeles Times
·
July 23, 2025
LOBATERA, Venezuela — Carlos Uzcátegui tightly hugged his sobbing wife and stepdaughter on Wednesday as the morning fog in western Venezuela lifted. The family’s first embrace in more than a year finally convinced him that his nightmare inside a...
Venezuelan Migrants Describe Torture After Deportation to El Salvador
Tico Times
·
July 23, 2025
“You’re going to rot in here. You’ll spend 300 years in prison.” That’s what Maikel Olivera says guards repeatedly told him during his four-month detention in El Salvador’s notorious mega prison. On Tuesday, the 37-year-old reunited with his...
Venezuela’s returning migrants allege abuses in El Salvador’s ‘hell’ prison where US sent them
Associated Press
·
July 23, 2025
LOBATERA, Venezuela (AP) — Carlos Uzcátegui tightly hugged his sobbing wife and stepdaughter on Wednesday as the morning fog in western Venezuela lifted. The family’s first embrace in more than a year finally convinced him that his nightmare...
A reader’s guide to the 2025 Booker Prize Longlist
The Indian Express
·
July 30, 2025
Every summer, the Booker Prize longlist offers a snapshot of the contemporary novel. This year’s longlist is no exception. Spanning nine nationalities and four continents, the 13 novels that make up the 2025 “Booker Dozen” trace fault lines both...
Booker Prize 2025: A reader’s guide to the 13 novels (including Kiran Desai’s) on the longlist
Scroll.in
·
The Booker Prize announced its 2025 longlist of thirteen titles on Tuesday. Indian writer Kiran Desai has been nominated for her forthcoming novel The Loneliness of Sunny and Sonia, 19 years after her previous book, The Inheritance of Loss, won...
Energy and Sovereignty, the Map of Power
Pressenza
·
July 30, 2025
“Whoever does not control their energy has no homeland. They have territory.” The energy world and the new colonialism Energy is not just electricity, nor just oil, nor merely turbines spinning in the wind. Energy is power. It is independence or...
Venezuela probing treatment of migrants Ruling in Italy favors same-sex parents 3 killed by flash flooding in Pakistan 17 dead in truck collision in Zimbabwe
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
·
July 23, 2025
Venezuela probing treatment of migrants CARACAS, Venezuela -- The Venezuelan attorney general's office said on Monday that it has opened an investigation into El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele over claims of mistreatment and human rights...
After detainee release, US warns Americans: Don’t travel to Venezuela
The Derrick and The News-Herald - Pennsylvania
·
The U.S. State Department has urged Americans not to travel to Venezuela following the release of detained citizens, warning that travelers face the risk of being wrongfully held for extended periods. The warning was posted Tuesday on the State...
These are all the countries currently on the Foreign Office ‘do not travel’ list
The Independent
·
July 25, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Murderer who slipped into prisoner exchange deal with Venezuela is walking free in the US
El País
·
July 25, 2025
Dahud Hanid Ortiz, a U.S. citizen repatriated from Venezuela as part of a three-way prisoner exchange with El Salvador, disappeared last week after he landed in Texas on a flight chartered by the Donald Trump administration. He was waving a small...
Opposition Bastions in Eastern Caracas and Beyond May Now Turn Red
Caracas Chronicles
·
July 25, 2025
Scheduled precisely on the eve of the first anniversary of the 2024 presidential election, the July 27 municipal vote could mark the quiet collapse of several opposition strongholds that have lasted decades in wealthier municipalities. Besides the...
Convicted murderer released by Trump from Venezuelan prison is free in US
West Hawaii Today - Hawaii
·
July 25, 2025
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — He killed three people in Spain and fled to Venezuela, where he was sentenced to 30 years in prison, court documents show. Then last week, the Trump administration negotiated his release as part of a large prisoner swap, and he...