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 MoreVenezuela experienced on Monday a new widespread power outage just weeks after most of the country was left in the dark for more than 100 hours as its electricity network faltered. The Caracas government attributed the blackout to another sabotage by the United States, as it had done two weeks earlier.
Read MoreRussian military officials have arrived in Venezuela for talks on defense industry cooperation, Russian state media reported on Monday. The government of Vladimir Putin is one of the crisis-hit Venezuelan government’s strongest backers, having provided billions of dollars in credit to the South American country in recent years.
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 MoreEl Salvador’s Supreme Court on Thursday decided to seek the extradition of former president Mauricio Funes from Nicaragua on corruption charges, Funes, who was president from 2009 to 2014, has been living happily for more than two years in Nicaragua, where he was granted political asylum by Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreAmerican countries on Thursday stepped up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to release a senior adviser to opposition leader Juan Guaido amid concern that his arrest could herald a new crackdown on the opposition.
Read MoreFormer Brazilian president Michel Temer was arrested on Thursday in connection with a large-scale corruption investigation, local media reported. Temer is under investigation in connection with Lava Jato, Brazil’s biggest-ever corruption scandal.
Read MoreDuring 2017 and 2018, the Caribbean islands suffered the devastating impact of two category 5 hurricanes, intense local droughts and severe coastal flooding. These climatic events put disaster risk management tools to the test and made it clear that more efficient programs were desperately needed to reduce risks.
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