Bloomberg Venezuelan soldiers loyal to embattled President Nicolas Maduro have trained members of South America’s most dangerous guerrilla force to use heat-seeking anti-aircraft missiles, according to Colombian authorities. National Liberation Army fighters were instructed in how to use the Russian-manufactured IGLA surface-to-air missile system, according to General Luis Navarro, Colombia’s top-ranking soldier. The Marxist force known as the ELN has ...

Bloomberg Texas-educated businessman Laurentino Cortizo will almost certainly be Panama’s next president, after winning a contested vote count, the electoral authority said. Cortizo is the “virtual victor” of the election, after winning the preliminary vote count by a narrow margin, the authority said in a post on Twitter. The final official results are scheduled to be published on Thursday. Cortizo’s ...

Bloomberg Portuguese PM Antonio Costa prodded two opposition parties into supporting fiscal discipline, staking his claim as a champion of responsible budgets ahead of a national election on October 6. The maneuvering reduces the likelihood of political turmoil in a euro-area country that required a bailout in 2011 and gives additional signals about the terms on which parties will contest ...