Our Monday Sociedad Media Now newsletter focusing on developments in Bolivia, the Venezuelan government’s response to earthquakes disaster, and Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello’s viral encounter with U.S. rescuers.
Bolivia Declares State of Emergency as Political Crisis Remains
LA PAZ, BOLIVIA — Bolivia’s President Rodrigo Paz declared a 90-day state of emergency on June 20 — deploying the military to forcibly clear road blockades that had strangled the country for 50 days, killed 14 people, isolated La Paz from food and medical supplies, and pushed Bolivia's economic crisis to the edge — as the U.S. and 16 nations issued a joint statement calling the unrest a threat to hemispheric democracy.
President Trump accused “narco-terrorists” of funding the protests, and former president Evo Morales — evading an arrest warrant from a hideout in the coca-growing tropics — continued backing a movement rooted in legitimate economic grievances over fuel subsidy cuts and rising prices that the “narco-terrorist” label, critics argued, deliberately obscured.
Venezuela’s Earthquake Response: Residents Digging With Their Hands While Officials Take Selfies
MIAMI — Death toll exceeds 1,400 with tens of thousands missing as residents dig through rubble with their bare hands while government officials arrived to take selfies, residents say.
Disaster zone jammed with civilian aid convoys that outpaced any official response, and a Maduro-era security apparatus now exercising control over who enters the hemisphere’s most catastrophic active disaster zone — even as acting President Rodríguez publicly thanked Washington and U.S. rescue teams from Fairfax County heard two taps beneath the rubble of a collapsed building and believed someone was still alive.
Diosdado Cabello — Venezuela’s Interior Minister — Prevents U.S. Resuers From Entering Disaster Area In Viral Clip
CARACAS — A video clip showing Venezuela’s Justice and Peace Minister Diosdado Cabello — one of the most sanctioned and U.S.-indicted figures from the Maduro era, now serving in the Rodríguez interim government — physically blocking a U.S. rescue delegation from entering a disaster site in La Guaira has gone viral worldwide, as a rescuer is heard asking:
“Don’t you want me to go and help the person who’s there?”
Anti-government critics argue that the Venezuelan regime is hiding something.
🎥 Watch the viral video by clicking the link below:
