At the start of the World Cup, I began trying to see if each day I could have a meal in honor of one of the countries playing that day. As Europeans like @FreddyLA7 discovered Waffle House, I wanted to discover my own country in a new way. At 17 meals down and 17 to go, a recap…
Venezuela entera te espera, #ucabista🇻🇪
Queremos agradecer a los rostros que han hecho vida nuestro lema ignaciano “en todo amar y servir”. Gracias a los estudiantes en su diversidad, agrupaciones y voluntariado; a los cientos de vecinos, egresados y familias que se sumaron al centro de acopio; y al personal académico, directivo y administrativo que sigue presente a pesar del cansancio de estos días intensos.
Nuestro profundo reconocimiento también a quienes se desplegaron en las zonas afectadas: la Brigada de Emergencia, nuestros ingenieros civiles, el equipo de PsicoData, la Academia de Gastronomía, los concesionarios que donaron alimentación, personalidades, universidades del resto del país, sin dejar de mencionar el invaluable apoyo de la UCAB Guayana, que rompió barreras de distancia para llegar con insumos a Caracas y La Guaira.
Gracias a la comunidad, empresas, organizaciones aliadas e instituciones que confiaron en nosotros dentro y fuera de nuestras fronteras. Estos días de dolor se transformaron en encuentros, abrazos solidarios y en el Evangelio hecho vida a través de cada caja armada, cada camión cargado y cada cadena humana.
Esta experiencia es una parábola del país que debemos reconstruir: uno que honre la memoria de quienes ya no están, que aprenda de los errores y que nos mueva a rehacer la institucionalidad, la justicia y la democracia. La fe nos anima a mirar más allá de las dificultades. Como universidad, nos encomendamos a Dios para seguir siendo germen de un futuro mejor para todos.
Gracias a la sociedad civil mexicana y a cada uno de los voluntarios nacionales y extranjeros que están haciendo su trabajo a pesar de los obstáculos oficiales que ha impuesto la dictadura interina en Venezuela.
🚨 #URGENTE | Los Topos mexicanos piden más ayuda. No se dan abasto y, lo más insólito de todo, es que al fondo se observa a funcionarios de la GNB haciendo bulto sin hacer absolutamente nada.
Es increíble que los rescatistas internacionales estén haciendo más por salvar vidas que la propia GNB.
Qué indignación.
José Nogal, sobreviviente de El Junquito: “Nuestra vivienda quedó completamente tapiada, mi mamá no pudo salir a tiempo, yo tuve la fortuna que quedé bajo una viga y unos vecinos me ayudaron a salir”
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Elon, I can give you many, many names of people who have died because of your aid cuts.:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because you stopped paying for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of your cuts in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after you interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when you cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to him.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge you: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.
Enrique Krauze: "María Corina Machado debe transmitir fuerza, seguridad y mirar hacia el horizonte de las décadas y del siglo, no de los meses"
✍️ Milagros Socorro
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Outrage is growing in Venezuela after a video surfaced appearing to show the regime’s feared Interior Minister, Diosdado Cabello, preventing members of a U.S. rescue delegation from assisting Venezuelans.
Republicans in Congress handed out over $1 trillion in tax cuts to the top 1% — and they slashed over $1 trillion from health care and food assistance.
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is the single largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in one law in American history.
So much gaslighting now about Venezuela. There is no equipment available in the country for earthquake relief because sanctions? So it’s the US’ fault now? Ludicrous on both counts. I’m not surprised some would say it, but I am disappointed anyone would believe it.
'How Venezuela's earthquakes have shaken President Delcy Rodriguez'
My latest for @aje on this being a test for Delcy, one many people say she is failing at. But how much will that matter?
I wrote this on a bus on my phone from San Cristobal to Caracas, as people headed from the Colombian border back home, armed with supplies and wanting to find loved ones. At food stops we found trucks loaded with matresses, medicines, food and more. Although today people told me they hadn't received many donations where they were. But perhaps I'll save that for another story.
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This is staggering: The DOJ dropped an important criminal case into contaminated formula that may have sickened and killed kids.
Decisions like this, which place corporations and their profits above the safety and wellbeing of the public, are the product of a broken Justice Department.
When the Senate returns, I will be launching an inquiry into this. It warrants serious scrutiny from the Congress, including into the potential conflict of interest when a corporate defense firm is also a law firm promising pro bono work for Trump.
Most police depts now restrict car chases.
But Trump admin gave Park Police free rein. “We got that rule changed in 24 hrs...The next night, they had so much fun."
Last week, police chased a stolen car in DC. The car killed a 46 y/o deliveryman on a moped.
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