On Feb. 25, 2005, authorities arrested Dennis Rader, a municipal employee and church leader, for the so-called BTK (blind, ...

President Trump’s pressure campaign against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is the latest chapter in a long history of U.S. intervention in the Caribbean basin, rooted in the 1823 Monroe Doctrine but ...

As the Trump White House weighs its next steps in an expanding military offensive against Venezuela’s main drug-trafficking network, strongman Nicolás Maduro is taking to the streets to project an ...

The USS Gravely, a U.S. Navy warship, departs from the Port of Spain on Oct. 30, 2025. The U.S. warship arrived in Trinidad and Tobago on Oct. 26, 2025, for joint exercises near the coast of Venezuela ...

FILE - Nicaraguan presidential candidate Violeta Chamorro raises her arms as she receives a warm welcome during her visit to Miami on Sept. 17, 1989. SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Violeta Chamorro, an ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ruling Sandinista party in ...

Nicaraguan journalist Cristiana Chamorro puts her hands over the coffin of her mother, the former Nicaraguan president Violeta Chamorro, during a funeral mass at the Votive Shrine of the Sacred Heart ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into politics by her husband’s assassination and ...

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the Nicaraguan leader whose rule in the 1990s marked the end of the country’s civil war and who served as Latin America’s first elected female president, died on Saturday ...