En 2012, Chávez prometió que la primera turbina de Tocoma arrancaría en septiembre de ese mismo año. Nunca arrancó.
Catorce años después, tras más de 9.365 millones de dólares desaparecidos, Delcy Rodríguez anuncia un “acuerdo histórico” con IMPSA para culminar la obra y sumar 2.640 MW al Sistema Eléctrico Nacional.
Lo verdaderamente histórico es que, después de 14 años, miles de millones de dólares “gastados” y una interminable novela sobre la “guerra económica”, todavía estén buscando quién termine lo que prometieron entregar en 2012.
Tocoma: el monumento perfecto al despilfarro, la corrupción y las promesas incumplidas.
La Ai que divierte la Ai que entretiene y yo te digo contento, que importa que se la inventen!
“Le dijo 'Si conoces Eruption, tócala' a Eddie Van Halen, pero Carlos Santana”
https://t.co/z6WHtknYni vía @Untoldstoriessantana in @YouTube
About the recent developments on prime gold mining regions in Venezuela
1) the #ArcoMinero area is bigger than Portugal…. Yes
2) despite that fact, big international orgs active against the mining ecocide in Brazil, decided to ignore the ecocide in #Venezuela (even now)
3) what we see now is a change of the leaders who will continue to mine that area. It’s not to protect the biodiversity and our nature and stop mining. It’s removing one group to put another group to continue the extractive cycle.
#goldMining #AmazonUnderThreat #indigenous #environmentalJustice #ecocide
Picture @Fritz_A_Sanchez
@MariaCorinaYA “nada ni nadie nos desvía” en la transmisión en vivo por @dplacer “EEUU manda una sorpresa al simulacro militar: el Iwo Jima está frente...” https://t.co/DNtnqcpDfK
MIT, PBS, Harvard, la NASA: Desde misiones espaciales hasta el desarrollo del MP3, la diáspora científica venezolana se ha convertido en uno de los aportes más extraordinarios —y menos visibles— del país a Estados Unidos y el mundo.
✍️ @chegoyo
https://t.co/tvhu5bMMY1
🚨 | ¿CUÁNTO MÁS VA A DURAR PRESA UNA NIÑA DE 16 AÑOS POR UN DELITO QUE NO EXISTE?
Samantha tiene 16 años. Su hermana, Aranza, tiene 19.
Llevan casi 6 meses encerradas por ser hermanas de un militar en el exilio.
Le negaron la amnistía.
Le difirieron la audiencia 6 veces.
La acusan de TERRORISMO. A una adolescente.
¿Qué pasó desde entonces?
Cecodap llevó el caso directo al nuevo fiscal Larry Devoe. Le pidieron una medida sustitutiva de libertad. Provea y otras ONG respaldaron.
¿La respuesta? Silencio.
6 meses. Sin juicio. Sin amnistía. Sin respuestas.
#LibertadParaAranzaYSamantha
Hoy Londres ha dejado una imagen maravillosa de la democracia occidental: periodistas vetados, reconocimiento facial en directo, drones, perros, caballos y más de 4000 policías para contener una manifestación. Todo ello, por supuesto, “para proteger la libertad”.
El intento de silenciar la manifestación por parte del presidente británico, Keir Starmer, terminó convirtiéndola en un fenómeno internacional.
Hoy una industria entera dejó de tener sentido.
Un tío publicó en GitHub un repo que convierte cualquier foto en un mundo 3D explorable: meshes con físicas, splat del fondo, audio ambiente. Todo.
Una imagen entra. Un mundo sale. Cinco minutos.
La gente que se pasó diez años aprendiendo Blender lleva todo el día mirando esto en silencio.
Se llama image-blaster.
The last time I saw my grandfather, Izu, was in 2003. He was dying of lung cancer in Venezuela.
He was a larger than life man from the Kingdom of Romania who was orphaned at 10 years old, came to Venezuela, and built his entire life from scratch.
I was at playing football at the Columbia University when my father called and said, "Look, I know you're really busy with school and sports and all that, but if you ever want to see him again, this is the time."
So I talked to my coaches and worked things out and I flew down to Caracas with my father.
If you know Venezuelan history, in 1998, Hugo Chavez, the dictator, became president. And the Constitution was clear you could run for only one five-year term. So in 2003, his term was up, but as an autocrat, he was not going to take that lying down.
So what does he do? He packs the Supreme court with a bunch of his buddies and petitions for reconsideration.Constitution is clear, you can't run again."
So what does he do? He packs the supreme Court with a bunch of his buddies and petitions for reconsideration.
The new Supreme Court told him that not only could he run again, he could run as many times as he wanted to. He ruled until 2013 when he died of cancer.
After the ruling, there were mass protests which happened to coincide with when I was visiting my grandfather.
My grandfather, who was down to roughly 85 pounds and confined to a wheelchair, asked me to wheel him outside onto the balcony and set up the chessboard so we could play one last time. As a little boy, he had taught me how to play chess.
I set up the pieces. He couldn't lift his arm enough to move them, so I was moving them for him.
He said to me, "Your father tells me you want to go to law school." And I said, "I do." And he said, "Where do you want to go to law school?" So I said, "I want to go to Yale, but I don't know if I'll get in."
And then he said, "Well, what kind of lawyer are you gonna be?" And I said, "I really don't know, I'm just in college, I mostly just care about football, you know?"
And he looked at me and he had watery eyes at that moment, and he picked up his very bony finger, which took a great deal of effort, and he pointed out at the crowd below and said, "Always remember, this is what happens to a country when good people don't serve it."
And so when I got the call to serve as a federal judge, it was a no-brainer. This country welcomed us with open arms when we had nothing and gave us everything we have today.
It's the honor of a lifetime to be able to serve, and I'm grateful for it every single day.
@RoyKAltman Tienes mi votò Roy. Regresé a dar clases en la FAU-UCV que era mi forma de servir a mi país y 23 años luego, no tuve camino sino salir. Hoy, aún desde la distancia, estoy seguro puedo apoyar a quienes sirven. Y tú con tu historia, lo has hecho. Chapó