An Attack on the Most Vulnerable: U.S. Sanctions on Venezuela
An Attack on the Most Vulnerable: U.S. Sanctions on Venezuela
January 9, 2021
In early 2020 as the world braced for the Covid-19 pandemic, only 20 percent of Venezuela’s hospitals had basic supplies. By May, projections predicted 4,000 daily cases in Venezuela between June and September. Without a functioning healthcare system, medical professionals have had to use motels and makeshift facilities to treat Covid. In the city of Maracaibo, the Central University Hospital has only nine ICU beds and six hours of running water available per day.
Exacerbated by a burgeoning humanitarian crisis under President Nicolas Maduro, Covid-19 has wreaked immeasurable damage to the population amidst increased U.S. sanctions. For even as Venezuelans continue to receive makeshift medical care in motels, with no end in sight to the pandemic, the United States has continued its policy of economic sanctions designed to cut off the Ma
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2020 s Worst Environmental Disasters, and How Climate Change Played a Role | The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel 12/20/2020 Ron Brackett
In a year of unprecedented disasters, much of the damage done to our planet in 2020 was self-inflicted.
From devastating oil spills in sensitive areas to deadly wildfires that consumed record acreage to failing dams that flooded entire towns, the worst environmental disasters of the year showed the influence of humans.
That influence is clearly evident when a tanker slams into a coral reef and spills thousands of barrels of oil. It s less obvious when climate change is a factor behind raging wildfires across the Western U.S. and Australia.
Toxic Spills in Venezuela Offer a Bleak Vision of the End of Oil
Bloomberg 12/15/2020 Fabiola Zerpa, Peter Millard and Andrew Rosati
(Bloomberg) Tropical rains have washed away most outward traces of the oil spill that ravaged Rio Seco this fall. But the fishing village in the shadow of Venezuela’s main refining hub bears the scars of deeper contamination.
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Boats with oil-stained hulls must now travel further out into the Caribbean to make a catch. Crude has soaked the roots of nearby mangroves, leaving shrimp grounds barren. Seeing no future, dozens of fishermen and their families have fled their homes; those who are left loiter in the village, waiting for Petroleos de Venezuela, the state oil company known as PDVSA, to compensate for lost boats, equipment and sales.