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In recent months the government has also increased detentions of people it perceives as dissidents, leading to fears of further persecution if Maduro stays in power.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QXVPTMOJPFATRDCYWW6A4ADAIA","additional_properties":{"_id":1721323661333},"content":"Nearly 300 political prisoners are in government custody, according to a watchdog group, Criminal Forum.","type":"text"},{"_id":"46XTP5C3NFBYHEZBUHAKDVJZPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1721323661334},"content":"“I did everything I could for my country,” says Jesús Zambrano (32), a journalist who is considering leaving for Germany. “But I’m not ready to go to prison for doing my job.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"T3PEWJGSRRDWLNQ66LSZIO7J5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1721323661335},"content":"One private poll by the company ORC Consultants, conducted in June, suggests that as many as a third of Venezuelans are considering the possibility of migrating if the current government remains in power. 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All of my relatives!” one young woman shouted at a camera at a recent opposition event, her voice cracking in pain.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NWHWVWYYCBEFPIT3KDI6ZA76MI","additional_properties":{"_id":1721323661345},"content":"“Where is your family?” the camera operator asked.","type":"text"},{"_id":"25ADLPUPIVDLLP47F2VUPLJBRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1721323661346},"content":"“In the United States,” she gulped. “Peru. Ecuador. Colombia. 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She helped to found a political party called Popular Will and spent years protesting against everything from failing public services to the jailing of her activist colleagues.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DRSOBGHNINE5HDZ72HKNFOTSMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1721323661354},"content":"She has been in and out of university, often unable to afford tuition, and tried migrating to neighbouring Colombia, where she worked as a server and said she made only enough to eat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X3HXU7E2EBCY7JEEACQKRO7KXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1721323661355},"content":"Now Colmenares is the primary breadwinner for her mother and father, who have health problems. 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And even if she did, acceptance could take months or years, or never arrive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L7DVM7IOWB7JQNZO6RNSRYLTQU","additional_properties":{"_id":"S2OWYH2XXBFPBBQBIQ53SNSBDM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"7Q77PZ3ARBC5NL447N2V54JKVQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1721323661359},"content":"Zuleika Meneses (33), a friend of Colmenares, is also planning to leave Venezuela if the Maduro government keeps its hold on power. Meneses, who is also a founding member of Popular Will, says she has been an activist since she was 14.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CB6Z5JMCB5CSPBXKRKJYGG5AY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1721323661360},"content":"“I don’t want to leave my country,” she says. “I dream of being a legislator, of being a governor, of being the president of Venezuela.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"D45CUXKFMBD3XAAZ7HH3PQLYIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1721323661361},"content":"It’s not just the economic situation pushing her out. She is also fearful of a wider crackdown in the coming months. She rattles off the names of jailed activists. “I don’t want to be another name on the list,” she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TKUFGCAML3WL4VN2L2IBHW3ISE","additional_properties":{"_id":"7SCLHJSIBFDORFE3SX6OXVO4FU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5WA2VB2APZE2RAK77YHP767ZSQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1721323661363},"content":"Marisol Ríos (62), is a lawyer with three daughters. Two have already left the country: one is in the US, and another in Colombia. 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I’m a soldier of this homeland ... and will carry out whatever orders you give me,” Mr Zúñiga supposedly replied.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3GYKYZQEVZFARGASCXESZY6TH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1719508870233},"content":"Mr Del Castillo claimed the two men then embraced, adding: “Nobody could have imagined that the next day ... our country would see a failed coup attempt.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RJQL4OI6VZGE7N27OOGLFQBWNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1719508870234},"content":"Wednesday’s brief and still poorly explained mutiny, which lasted only around 3 hours and reportedly saw 12 people injured, was the latest convulsion to grip a notoriously volatile nation that has witnessed 190 revolutions and coups since it gained independence in 1825.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W6Y3JRXEWFEAXNM6AR24AJLGGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1719508870235},"content":"Adding to the confusion were comments made by Mr Zúñiga in the moments before he was detained, in which the ex-army chief appeared to accuse Arce of staging a sham coup in order to boost his flagging popularity. “The president told me the situation was fucked and that he needed something to boost his popularity,” Mr Zúñiga said, without providing evidence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PGT4GUNACJHYBPRFP6BVEEP6QE","additional_properties":{"_id":1719508870236},"content":"Bolivia, a landlocked country of about 12.5 million citizens, is currently enduring a punishing economic crisis with gas exports plummeting and social unrest on the rise. 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Alejandro Reyes, an opposition congressman from the Comunidad Ciudadana coalition, demanded a parliamentary inquiry into claims that Mr Arce had himself orchestrated an “autogolpe”, or a self-coup. “There are indications and declarations that indicate the involvement of the government,” Mr Reyes said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DYJYL2JS3ZDZZMXQGQ7YIBSQSU","additional_properties":{"_id":1719508870239},"content":"María Nela Prada, the minister for the presidency, rejected such claims. “This absolutely false ... these are things that I find utterly inconceivable,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YXT5AYNY5JDLBKX3Q5HT4KO3YM","additional_properties":{"_id":1719508870240},"content":"Deisy Choque, a Mas lawmaker, hailed president Arce – a UK-educated former finance minister – as a hero. “He will never be seen as a coward or a traitor – he stood up to the coup attempt and democracy triumphed,” Choque said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AHDP56GTOBBAFBGUZBFSXY7JBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1719508870241},"content":"As the war of words intensified, armed police, their faces covered with balaclavas, guarded the wrought iron gates of the 19th-century neoclassical palace where much of the previous day’s drama had unfolded. Inside, two women could be seen sweeping up shattered glass from the floor where Mr Arce had been filmed confronting Mr Zúñiga, telling him: “I am your captain ... withdraw all of your troops right now, general.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VXLET5GLQFGOLHVHTGQDJTXCTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1719508870242},"content":"The apparent coup attempt in Bolivia was the subject of almost universal condemnation from across the political spectrum in Latin America, with conservative governments in Ecuador, Uruguay and Paraguay speaking out as well as left-wing ones in Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.","type":"text"},{"_id":"APAQQDTOIFCIJB7YP4ZN2VJ3SY","additional_properties":{"_id":1719508870243},"content":"But there were some hints of approval from segments of the region’s burgeoning far-right. 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Many activists are nervously monitoring a struggle under way within Lula’s government that could yet see the Amazon region become the next frontier for Brazil’s oil and gas industry.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RMGPUAI3AP4YHC5TAQPG34PHMA","additional_properties":{"_id":"XTP4EJNDYVB5ZJVM7GQHMAL23E"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"GXXDBJQYUZDTFGTW5IOFMD4HQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1719259674321},"content":"The debate within government centres on whether to explore for billions of barrels of oil that geologists say could lie in waters near the mouth of the Amazon river. “In the area of climate policy there has been important progress but the energy sector presents a clear contradiction to this strong narrative of not just preserving the Amazon but of Brazil’s effort to assume a leadership role in global environmental policy,” warns Vaz, who now works on environmental policy at Climate Observatory, a coalition of non-governmental groups.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6T5GQSOI55EOPJAMBQVQQLOG5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1719259674322},"content":"The so-called Equatorial Margin is already exerting a growing hold over the global oil industry and countries in the western hemisphere.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ZYR6KAPYBB6ZNGHTV366KARRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1719259674323},"content":"After a successful exploration campaign neighbouring Guyana has declared proven reserves of 11 billion barrels, meaning its population of 800,000 could soon become some of the richest inhabitants on earth.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2DSH3VRIBNADXDRRCUWAKDGWJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1719259674324},"content":"This in turn has provoked neighbouring Venezuela to reactivate a long-standing border dispute with its small neighbour that it now accuses of stealing its oil.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZHYTOYLGQJHTZNGGW5354ELQKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1719259674325},"content":"Brazil, with reserves already approaching 16 billion barrels, would potentially become a front-rank oil exporter were its own portion of the Equatorial Margin to hold reserves similar to those found off Guyana. 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It is obvious that the environment ministry’s efforts in reducing deforestation are being used as a smoke screen by the government so it can implement an expansion of oil exploration in the Amazon,” says Juliano Araújo, of the Arayara Institute which advocates for Brazil’s transition away from carbon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GF5JLIZB4NG6LJX3ESNKWPIHI4","additional_properties":{"_id":"7Y4NWN4E65A7BFGNAUA62EWBY4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4AU3FBAWFBC4BCCG3HQOW535UI","additional_properties":{"_id":1719259674330},"content":"Allied to the economic question there is also a difficult political one involved for Lula. This is illustrated by the decision of Randolfe Rodrigues, a senator from the Amazonian state of Amapá, to quit Marina’s Sustainability Network party following the refusal to allow drilling in block FZA-M-59, which lies offshore of his state. He had called for more studies on the viability of exploration and his resignation reflected the fact any politician opposed to exploration has little future in Amapá, one of Brazil’s poorest and least developed states.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DRLQBIF4NBAX3BX377V55PE4O4","additional_properties":{"_id":1719259674331},"content":"“People in Amapá feel abandoned by the rest of Brazil and the oil sector could have been an opportunity to combat the misery that already drives deforestation in our state and misery is not compatible with a successful environmental policy,” says Mary Cruz, a Sustainability Network leader in Amapá who is sympathetic to the dilemma faced by her former party colleague.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WZGDGQAYNJEUVAVNLOBVQOLKZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1719259674332},"content":"The block on exploration has been exploited by far-right politicians who are increasingly powerful in Amapá. They claim it is proof that the demands of outside environmentalists are responsible for the widespread poverty in the Amazon, the poorest of Brazil’s five regions. “The difference is Rodrigues and many of us here advocate development with sustainability while the extreme right wants growth without the minimum interest in environmental questions,” says Cruz.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4NRG3UPODRF3VE5LI3MNSL4GLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1719259674333},"content":"For now Marina’s ministry is resisting efforts to have the ban on exploration reversed by other parts of the administration. 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Though hospitalised on April 24th, the man died the same day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CIPPJ73YHFAZ7G3IB62TAM6GLY","additional_properties":{"_id":1717684812860},"content":"Mexican authorities reported the fatal case to the WHO on May 23rd after confirming the presence of the virus in a sample from the deceased man.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WHQBG6RE3BDLXDBPKMLZKBYO7I","additional_properties":{"_id":1717684812861},"content":"While the man in Central Mexico marks the first laboratory-confirmed case of H5N2 in humans, researchers have identified people with antibodies that could signal prior infections.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y64NMYNUCRGWZHT2LIN63IUMYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1717684812862},"content":"Katrine Wallace, an epidemiologist with the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health, said that H5N2 poses a low risk to public health because it hasn’t shown an ability to be transmitted between humans. To that end, it’s concerning that the patient isn’t known to have had exposure to animals which are the most likely source of disease, she added.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CVJVJFEWR5BS3K6X7KQKUS4CQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1717684812863},"content":"Ms Wallace said more surveillance is needed to fill in the gaps of information.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2SANZXFIXFAGPIW2DXERF3T5OE","additional_properties":{"_id":1717684812864},"content":"“It’s so crazy that we don’t know where this is coming from,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FEMYMTRJSBCDXNSQARAWDK54AI","additional_properties":{"_id":1717684812865},"content":"The Mexican government has begun monitoring wild birds for H5N2 in the wetlands of Tlahuac in Mexico City, as well as farms, backyards and other areas near where the man resided. 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Any business he does requires cash and, sometimes, a Belizean partner.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IULYPZCZR5CYFOHTRJKDKPHZAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1715285554694},"content":"His wife has told him that he sometimes thrashes in his sleep, he said, but he recalls no nightmares. He had two free visits with a psychiatrist but chose not to continue treatment, at $100 a visit. The doctor had no expertise in the trauma of torture and “didn’t know what prison life was like”, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4PFDGMHBAZAMLAJGFROJD2MDPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1715285554695},"content":"“I need to get patched up,” he said. “Mentally, physically.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"PL5KZLQ635AFVOCZ6RUTBSROII","additional_properties":{"_id":1715285554696},"content":"Each Friday, he makes the 30-minute drive to the mosque to pray in a community of Muslims, which was denied to him during his time in US custody. Some are Belizeans who converted to Islam or their descendants. 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At least 22 police precincts in Port-au-Prince and its suburbs were destroyed in recent weeks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FS6BC36ST5FGRNJVRH53FJAPGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"UM633DQWTRE63LSSTNW3BORA3Q"},"content":"Haiti’s capital rocked by violence as shooting fills streets","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"H7Z5HU3BJNAFLM7FJPY3RLLPNI","additional_properties":{"_id":1714741833668},"content":"A team of 14 advisers and trainers from the US state department is embedded with the Haitian police to provide support, including tactical advice. 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In the meantime, the Palestinian death toll in Israel’s air and ground offensive is now more than 33,000, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HZB2ZCRXSNHGBIAPYDUDA7SKMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1712331160344},"content":"Nicaragua bases its case against Germany on figures showing its arms exports to Israel last year were worth €326.5 million, a ten-fold increase on 2022, making up 28 per cent of Israel’s total military imports. This makes Germany “complicit” in Israel’s alleged war crimes, including genocide, it claims.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2I3RQXSCARCWRARGY76TUML7TQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1712331160345},"content":"In addition, Germany was among big donors to Unrwa that suspended funding after Israeli allegations in January that 12 of its tens of thousands of Palestinian employees were suspected of involvement in the October 7th attacks. 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