“[…] Not content with this massive assault on Palestinians’ rights to self-determination, the state of Israel has been continuously expanding its land and reducing the areas in which Palestinians have been living. “[…] On top of this has been the systematic oppression of Palestinians whose economy and even water supply …
Read More »US Embassy: US offers $20 million to offset ‘Maduro-made humanitarian crisis’ in Venezuela
“The United States is staging emergency humanitarian assistance in the region in response to Interim President Guiado’s request for aid… “These efforts follow Secretary Pompeo’s January 24, announcement that the United States is ready to provide more than $20 million in initial humanitarian assistance to the people of Venezuela, as …
Read More »Daly Bread: Seeing it up close; what we can learn from Venezuela
Extensive comment on current events in Venezuela is not for me to make, but I am confident that events unfolding there are the outcome of a long-standing bitter polarisation between the Venezuelan political and socio-economic elite and the working class. When the poor and dispossessed eventually found a champion in …
Read More »UN concerned by T&T’s “repatriation” of 82 Venezuelans, including asylum seekers
“The United Nations is concerned for the welfare of these people and is in contact with the appropriate authorities in Port-of-Spain to ensure that any person in need of protection will get it without fail.” The following media statement on the “repatriation” of 82 Venezuelans from Trinidad and Tobago was …
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