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REPORT: At La Esperanza cemetery, 500 fresh graves and 150 unnamed
There are places where the scale of a disaster can be measured better than in any official bulletin. The La Esperanza cemetery, in the…
REPORT: 50,000 missing in Venezuela, the number Caracas won't say
There are numbers that circulate in diplomatic corridors long before they reach a microphone. This one just reached one. The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian…
OPEN LETTER: Venezuela's earthquake toll climbs to 3,889 dead, and still rising
There are numbers that should never become a routine news bulletin item. This is one of them. According to Al Jazeera, the official toll…
COMMENTARY: In Venezuela, the Earthquake Deepens the Post-Maduro Political Void
In 2026, Venezuela is enduring a double shock: the literal one, from the two earthquakes of June 24, and the political one, from a…
ANALYSIS: Venezuela Faces Growing Epidemic Threat After Deadly Earthquakes
Three weeks after the two earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24, 2026 — tremors of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 occurring less than a…
PROFILE: Starlink Offers Free Internet to Devastated Venezuela Until July 25
On June 25, 2026, the day after the twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24 — tremors of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5, occurring…
REPORT: Venezuela's Twin Earthquakes Death Toll Climbs to 3,889
More than two weeks after the catastrophe, the death toll from the twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24, 2026 keeps rising day…
REPORT: Trump's Gamble in Colombia, a Hard-Right Populist in Power
Abelardo de la Espriella, a corporate lawyer turned president-elect of Colombia, owes a decisive part of his June 21, 2026 victory to an unlikely…
DECODING: 63.6% Turnout, the Real Winner of Colombia's Vote
On June 21, 2026, Colombia recorded a turnout rate of 63.6% in its presidential runoff — the highest ever measured in the country's electoral…