Gary Marx

U.S. officials announced a plan Monday to spend $80 million over the next two years to strengthen Cuba's struggling opposition movement as part of a series of measures aimed at...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has emerged as the United States' most formidable adversary in Latin America since Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba more than 45 years ago. Flush with...

Luis Sanchez lives in a hillside slum populated by gang members and drug traffickers. He has been held up at gunpoint and is afraid to venture out of his parents'...

A decade ago, this vast region of eastern Venezuela called the Orinoco Belt was a backwater known for its expansive plains, ocher-colored soil and punishing heat. Today, the region is...

Cuban authorities Tuesday denied U.S. charges that they had deliberately cut off water and power to the American diplomatic mission in Havana, saying bad weather and technical problems were to...

Bengi Arreaza was hanging out on a Caracas street corner with friends on a recent Sunday morning when a group of thugs approached. An argument broke out, and then a...

The United States has designated Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism, placing it alongside such nations as Iran, Syria and North Korea. One reason for this distinction is 56-year-old Charlie...

Rejecting a call by host Venezuela for a cut in oil production, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries decided Thursday to maintain current production levels to prevent near-record oil prices...

It was bad enough when Belkis suspected that her husband, a construction worker and loving father named Yassel, was having an affair with another woman. Then she learned the truth:...

Tuesday morning began auspicious enough--with a downpour. It was the first rain of May, an event Cubans believe brings good fortune. But as I rode in a sport-utility vehicle to...