Dozens of foreign nationals are locked up in Venezuelan prisons, accused of crimes they may not have committed. As the U.S. ramps up pressure on Caracas, families fear for their loved ones stuck there.

When hooded men seized opposition leader Freddy Superlano in Caracas in July 2024, his wife began a desperate search across the city’s detention centers. For days, she was told nothing. Then, a week later,

CARACAS, Venezuela — Six American oil executives held for three years in Venezuela have been found guilty of corruption charges and immediately sentenced to prison. The judge’s ruling Thursday came with sentences of more than eight years for each ...

Andry Hernández Romero emerged from the Salvadoran mega-prison as a household name. He's now grappling with how to heal from the traumatic ordeal.

One of Venezuela's most influential union leaders has vowed to press on with his fight for workers' rights after his release this week from two years of detention in a military prison on what he calls trumped up charges.

Utah native Joshua Holt, who was freed last month from a Venezuelan prison after nearly two years held without trial, said in a "Today" interview Tuesday that the experience still haunts him. Holt, a 26-year-old Mormon missionary, was jailed at El ...

Maduro calls President Trump’s claims of drug trafficking a lie, saying the U.S.’s real goal is regime change and the installation of a “puppet government” so it can “take control of Venezuela’s oil.” While working as a bus driver,

Peruvian prisons were allowing visits after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, and he sensed a climate of high tension in Lurigancho, the overcrowded fortress located east of Lima, where he has been visiting for 40 years,