Venezuela

Residents from the Altagracia neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, ignored the ongoing lockdown measures and took to the streets on Thursday to demand the restoration of the water supply after nearly six weeks without service. The neighborhood, located meters away from the regime’s Ministry of Communication and Information, has experienced chronic…

A retired teacher and former parish councillor have been spoken to by police after admitting building blockades to stop cyclists biking through a woodland during the coronavirus lockdown. Wendy McLachlan and Anna Hacket-Pain, both 62, were filmed by 17-year-old Nathan Cartwright saying they had laid rocks and branches across the…

The head of the Venezuelan National Assembly’s indigenous people’s committee asserted on Tuesday that the socialist regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro had left indigenous Venezuelans in “total abandon,” with no resources to fight the Chinese coronavirus. Gladys Guaipo, the president of the Permanent Commission of Indigenous Peoples at the federal…

Special Report: Tipping Points 2020 This article is part of a special report in collaboration with the 2020 Fragile States Index examining the impact of state fragility on crisis response and prevention. Unsurprisingly, the states ranked at the top of the annual Fragile States Index are also home to some…

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Religious liberty is the foundation of freedom of conscience. Belief about the transcendent underlies support for any political, social, or economic order. Regimes which bar people from responding to a profound and powerful spiritual call will interfere with any and all individual desires. That is why totalitarian systems, which claim the…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A prison riot in Venezuela has left at least 40 dead and 50 others injured, authorities said this week.Prisoners at the Llanos Penitentiary Center in Guanare demanded that their relatives be allowed to deliver food to…

Many people are already going hungry in the United States; many more will face hunger or starvation in other parts of the world. EDITOR’S NOTE: The Nation believes that helping readers stay informed about the impact of the coronavirus crisis is a form of public service. For that reason, this article,…