LIONEL SCALONI: “Mi papá venía de manejar 10 horas un camión lleno de piedras, y aún así se bajaba y me decía: ‘Vamos a entrenar, no hay tiempo que perder’.”
Tenía 13 años y vivía en Pujato, un pueblo donde nadie hablaba de Mundiales, pero yo soñaba con uno. Mi cancha era un garaje. Mi camiseta, la de Argentina, aunque jugara en Newell’s. Mi viejo no descansaba. Me llevaba a entrenar, me esperaba, y volvía a trabajar. Él tenía más hambre de fútbol que yo.
A los 17 debuté como profesional. A los 29, fui al Mundial. A los 44, gané uno como entrenador. Y ese día, cuando Montiel metió el penal, no pensé en la copa. Pensé en mi viejo, en el garaje, en ese niño que viajaba a dedo para perseguir un sueño.
Desde que ganamos, no recuerdo haber pagado una comida en Argentina. La gente me abraza, llora y me dice: “Nos hiciste felices.” Y cada vez que lo escucho, me repito algo: valió la pena, cada kilómetro, cada piedra, cada entrenamiento a oscuras."
🐶 Hero Border Collie Tsunami saves nearly 100 lives after Venezuela earthquake
The 9-year-old rescue dog discovered dozens of survivors trapped under the rubble.
This will be his final mission — after this, Tsunami is retiring.
Once saved from starvation himself, he became one of the best search-and-rescue dogs, working at disaster sites in Venezuela, Turkey, and Syria.
Absolute legend. ❤️
🙏 Esta bebita está en el Hospital Pérez Carreño. Nadie sabe aún su nombre, ni dónde están los suyos. Resistió lo que sacudió al país entero, y hoy espera, dormidita, a que el amor venga a buscarla. Hasta que aparezca su familia, somos todos su familia. Si la reconoces, escribe o comparte.
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📍 Hospital Pérez Carreño, Caracas
una cosa es una tragedia y otra una tragedia potenciada y multiplicada a la mil por que unos hijos de puta no construyeron un hospital en decadas y dejaron a la buena de dios a la gente... que sea el final para esos malditos por favor
A strong, coordinated response by the US to the earthquakes in Venezuela tonight would show convincingly that Washington is concerned about the people in Venezuela not just the oil and minerals in Venezuela.
Venezuela just hired Hogan Lovells to handle its sovereign debt restructuring.
The firm wasn’t brought in just for the debt work. They were also hired for US government relations, and that dual mandate is really the tell here. This isn’t some boring technical legal process but a political operation dressed up in financial language, and the speed at which it’s moving is the biggest red flag of all.
When you hire a Washington-connected firm with this kind of mandate, you’re not carefully building a restructuring designed to protect the country’s long-term fiscal space. You’re trying to close something fast before the political window shuts. And fast restructurings almost always favor creditors, because Venezuela’s negotiators are working against a clock while the other side has been preparing for this moment for years.
A significant chunk of those creditors are American, which means the same government that designed the Three Phase framework and controls the sanctions relief timeline has a very direct institutional interest in seeing those creditors made whole. That’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s just incentives doing exactly what incentives do.
Now, the ugly thing is what experts are already signaling: If I were what’s left of chavismo and I was already thinking about a political comeback down the road, one of the smartest moves I could make on my way out is locking in a debt deal with genuinely awful long-term conditions for Venezuela, not obviously awful, but technically defensible awful. Because when the next government struggles to meet those obligations and ordinary Venezuelans aren’t seeing the recovery they were promised, the narrative writes itself: “They handed the country to Wall Street and Washington. We told you so.”
The debt bomb is actually more elegant than sabotaging oil infrastructure, because it’s invisible, completely legal, and takes years to detonate. By the time it goes off, everyone who signed it has moved on and has a very clean story ready.
I’ve been saying for weeks that the pace of this transition was being shaped by interests that have very little to do with Venezuela’s long-term sovereignty. It’s the price Venezuelans have to pay for their irresponsible behavior in the 1998 elections.
NOBODY IS DANCING IN THE STREETS OF VENEZUELA
This picture say it all. Terror cannot be normalized or laughed away.
We need to put the country on the track to transition and then recovery.
Normalizar la crianza malandra, la viveza y la criolla es la verdadera desgracia de Venezuela y la enfermedad cultural de Suramérica.
Nos enseñaron a admirar al que engaña,
a justificar al que roba,
a reírnos del que destruye.
Y ahora pretenden criar a los niños igual,
como si la falta de valores fuera astucia.
No.
Eso no es “sobrevivir”.
Eso es degenerar como sociedad.
Criar hijos sin principios no es estrategia,
es miseria moral.
Carlos Rangel durante un discurso ante la Asociación Venezolana de Ejecutivos, exponiendo su visión sobre las causas estructurales de la crisis venezolana y la necesidad de un cambio en la mentalidad política y económica del país en 1984. Léase bien, 1984.