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Cops: 2 Las Cuevas men among those held on Venezuela arms run
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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Two Las Cuevas men have been confirmed among five nationals currently detained by Venezuelan authorities, after they were allegedly held on their way to collect a shipment of guns and illegal drugs to bring back to Trinidad....
West Nile virus risk moved to high in Hamilton as 1st human case this season confirmed, public health says
CBC/Radio-Canada
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August 18, 2025
Hamilton The first human case of West Nile virus this season has been confirmed in Hamilton, public health says. City says people should use precautions like bug spray and removing standing water to prevent being bitten West Nile virus is...
After ICE detention fight, Venezuelan man saves Chicago brother's life with kidney transplant
FOX 32 Chicago - Illinois
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A Venezuelan man detained by ICE earlier this year has now saved his brother's life with a successful kidney transplant in Chicago. CHICAGO - A Venezuelan man whose ICE detention earlier this year sparked protests in Chicago has now successfully...
The Morning Briefing: Let's Trade the Vodka for Diet Coke. I Have a Kremlin Hangover.
PJ Media - Virginia
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August 18, 2025
Happy Monday, Morning Briefing readers. I'm filling in for Kruiser today — I'm not sure where he is, but the last time any of us saw him, he was chasing and cursing the ice cream man because he ran out of Bomb Pops. It's also his mom's 87th...
Venezuela and Iran Strengthen Collaboration in Health and Biotechnology
teleSUR
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Venezuela and Iran advance collaborations in health, biotechnology, and nanotechnology, emphasizing research, training, and technological development. Venezuela and Iran reviewed joint health and biotechnology projects in Caracas. Photo:...
Why so many South American doctors have come to Mallorca
Euro Weekly News
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August 17, 2025
Latin American doctors in Mallorca are becoming less and less a rarity | Credit: BearFotos/Shutterstock Working in Mallorca as a doctor from Latin America can bring unexpected challenges. You think you’ve mastered the language of your new country...
Venezuelan Opposition Leader Has a Warning for New York
PJ Media - Virginia
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August 15, 2025
Earlier this week, I wrote about how Donald Trump and Marco Rubio seem to be ramping up efforts to bring Nicolás Maduro to justice and, with any luck, pave the way for a free and liberated Venezuela. In the wake of these recent efforts, Venezuelan...
Yohel Pozo visits hospital patients ahead of Players' Weekend honoring personal journey
Central STL News - Missouri
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August 16, 2025
Busch Stadium | St. Louis CardinalsBusch Stadium | St. Louis Cardinals Cardinals catcher Yohel Pozo visited Mercy Hospital in St. Louis recently to meet with young patients and their families, drawing from his own experiences with a hospitalized...
Venezuelan Arsenal Grows as Russian Ties Face Limits in Cash and Crude
LatinAmerican Post
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August 15, 2025
An Americas Quarterly report shows that, under parading tanks and promises of missiles, Venezuela is tightening its bond with Russia. But behind the theater lies a harsher truth: Maduro wants investment, oil output, and loans. Moscow offers...
Venezuela’s Communal Project: A Conversation with Ángel Prado
Venezuelanalysis
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August 15, 2025
Ángel Prado is a founder of the El Maizal Commune in central-western Venezuela and a key leader of the Communard Union, an organization that brings together some eighty communes. Since June 2024, Prado has been Minister of Communes. In that...
As legal status is set to end for many Haitians, Mass. health care sector braces for staffing shortages
WBUR - Massachusetts
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In the living room of a Randolph apartment, a 3-year-old boy beams as he shows off his electric tricycle. His father, Jacques, smiles, but he has big worries. His boss at a Boston hospital just told him he’ll be let go if he can’t secure a new...
ICE spared him from deportation to Venezuela. He donated a kidney to save his ailing brother in the Chicago area.
Chicago Tribune - Illinois
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August 15, 2025
The minutes dragged into hours on Wednesday night as Jose Gregorio Gonzalez tossed and turned through the night. At 5 a.m. the next day, he was scheduled to donate his kidney to his younger brother, Alfredo Pacheco, who was also restless. By 2...
The Writer Behind ‘Through My Window’ Has Another Release on The Way
REMEZCLA
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August 18, 2025
If you’re a fan of Venezuelan writer Ariana Godoy, you’re in luck. And if you don’t know her yet, this is the perfect time. Godoy began writing on Wattpad in 2014 and has since written 20 webnovels in English and Spanish, publishing nine...
Deadly ‘sloth virus’ detected in UK for first time as health watchdog issues urgent warning
The Independent
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August 15, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Venezuelan Government Denounces Foreign-Funded NGOs Amid Release of Activist Linked to Anti-State Actions
teleSUR
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August 13, 2025
August 13, 2025 Hour: 6:42 pm The Venezuelan government has reiterated its warnings about foreign interference through non-governmental organizations (NGOs), following the conditional release of activist Martha Lía Grajales, co-founder of the...
Defending Venezuela’s sovereignty from a working-class perspective
LINKS
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August 15, 2025
Salvador De León is a member of the Comité Autónomo e Independiente de Trabajadores(as) (Autonomous and Independent Workers’ Committee, CAIT). Speaking with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, De León looks at...
Lawyers say immigrants battling medical emergencies and disease at Alligator Alcatraz: ‘I don’t want to die in here’
The Independent
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August 15, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Trump’s Venezuela Drug War Gambit and the Militarization Playbook at Home
Common Dreams
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August 15, 2025
US President Donald Trump has quietly authorized the Pentagon to carry out military operations against what his administration calls “narco-terrorist” networks in Latin America. On paper, it’s a counter-narcotics policy. In practice, it serves as...
Trinidad PM says Govt won’t engage in mass deportations of Venezuelans
Stabroek News
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August 15, 2025
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says her migrant policy, which is not yet completed, will not be one of mass deportations of migrants. Speaking with the media at bMobile’s Future Leaders Internship Engagement function at...
What Lies Behind Trump’s Attacks Against Venezuela?
Dissident Voice
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August 15, 2025
As if President Trump intended to meet professional US mercenary Erik Prince halfway, US Attorney General Pam Bondi increased the existing US bounty on President Maduro—originally set at $15 million—from $25 million to $50 million for anyone...