It’s Bernardo’s first mission. It seems that going to Venezuela is a prerequisite if you want to go to another country afterwards. As a doctor, he would have preferred Brazil, but that option is no longer on the table. He landed in Venezuela’s Amazon region in a helicopter, his first time flying in one.
Read MoreCracked reddish-brown earth now covers what was once a green valley of pastureland and vegetable fields. In the tiny stream Corrego do Feijao, the water runs red. The unfathomable destruction of the dam break of the Corrego do Feijao iron ore mine near Brumadhinho, in south-eastern Brazil, is perhaps best measured in the small settlement of Parque da Cachoeira.
Read MoreThose of us working in disaster relief know what to expect when a hurricane or earthquake strikes with devastating fury. We know that safe water, food, and shelter will be the most immediate needs for survivors. And we have a good idea of the kind of wreckage we’ll see, although we never cease to be humbled and sobered by the tragic sights.
Read MoreWhen big, dark clouds fill the sky or there’s news of a hurricane on the weather forecast, sports trainer Yanilia Castre gets ready for flooding in her neighborhood, Nuevo Vista Alegre, on the outskirts of Santiago de Cuba, the second largest on the island.
Read MoreThe collapse of the Nicaraguan economy has affected more families as a whole than the national banking system, but no one has been left unscathed. In this analysis, two well-known analysts warn that “the continuous withdrawal of deposits could lead to a liquidity crisis, so that banks could not fulfill their obligations…and close their doors or seek new owners.”
Read MoreInside the house we found Carlos Silva watching a soccer match. While the sportscaster’s voice ran on, the former prisoner remained seated, watching the passes and the plays. He was dressed in loose cotton pants, Croc sandals and a sleeveless shirt. All his clothing is blue: the same outfit he was using behind bars. “It’s a form of solidarity,” he says.
Read More“Turn off automatic updates. Turn off autoplay of videos. Don’t authorize apps to download content. Install “lite” versions of apps. Turn on mobile data saving functions. Stop apps from updating in the background. Install a firewall… Then, buy a data package.”This was what Migdalia, 59, was told when she asked her neighbor what she needed to do to get Internet on her phone.
Read MoreMinerva Montes lost her home on Holbox Island in 2005 when Hurricane Wilma hit the Yucatan Peninsula in southeastern Mexico. Rebuilding her home was quicker and easier than overcoming the psychological aftermath of the catastrophe, she said.
Read MoreAlmost a year after the civic rebellion started and after the dictatorship’s ban on protests, the demonstrations in Nicaragua are intensifying. The pulse could be measured in the corridors of the Central American University (UCA). It is one of the few places where forms of rebellion still live.
Read MoreA group of young Nicaraguans in exile have decided to launch a communications project to take on the topic of transitional justice in the current Nicaraguan socio-political context. The objective behind the new “Zero Hour” informational platform is: “to introduce the importance of “clarifying the truth” of the crimes that have occurred in the last year of civic protests.
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