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Jul 21, 2024 | 
msn.com | Andrei Netto |Camille Rodríguez Montilla
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Andrei Netto |Camille Rodríguez Montilla
Andre Mohabir will not leave his village. He is a toshao, the Indigenous leader of Wakapau village in Essequibo, a region along Guyana’s border with Venezuela. Since Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s president, announced in April that he would annex Essequibo, a huge slice of Guyana’s territory, Mohabir has seen the number of villagers dwindle. “A lot of people have been tense and scared. People moved out in most areas nearby,” says Mohabir, 36. “I understand because the situation is scary.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Camille Rodríguez Montilla
The soft-spoken septuagenarian who could be on the brink of leading Venezuela into a new political era has promised to build a country of prosperity, democracy and peace if he is elected president, and vowed to govern for all citizens – including supporters of his authoritarian rival Nicolás Maduro.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
aol.co.uk | Camille Rodríguez Montilla
A polling center in Caracas. Maduro is looking to win his third six-year term.Photograph: Ronald Pena R/EPAThe road from Caracas to Guatire is lined with propaganda billboards glorifying President Nicolás Maduro and likening his political rivals to gangsters from the country’s most infamous criminal group. “They won’t defeat us,” the slogan declares.
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May 12, 2024 | 
post-gazette.com | Camille Rodríguez Montilla
VALLE SECO, Venezuela — Estrella Villamizar grabbed the soft red and white coral by its stem and hacked it off with a blow of her wooden knife before tossing it in a bucket with other pieces she’d already ripped out of the Caribbean waters lapping against this deserted beach. On the sea bed, stretching for a distance as far as the eye could see, a blanket of the dark coral swayed in the warm current.
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May 11, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Camille Rodríguez Montilla
VALLE SECO, Venezuela — Estrella Villamizar grabbed the soft red and white coral by its stem and hacked it off with a blow of her wooden knife before tossing it in a bucket with other pieces she’d already ripped out of the Caribbean waters lapping against this deserted beach. On the sea bed, stretching for a distance as far as the eye could see, a blanket of the dark coral swayed in the warm current.
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May 7, 2024 | 
infobae.com | Camille Rodríguez Montilla
Estrella Villamizar agarró el suave coral rojo y blanco por el tallo y lo cortó de un golpe con su cuchillo de madera antes de arrojarlo a un cubo con otros trozos que ya había arrancado de las aguas caribeñas que chapoteaban en esta playa desierta. En el fondo del mar, que se extendía hasta donde alcanzaba la vista, un manto de coral oscuro se mecía en la cálida corriente.
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May 7, 2024 | 
nationalpost.com | Camille Rodríguez Montilla
Skip to ContentAdvertisement 1As scientists rush to save ailing corals elsewhere, in Venezuela locals are trying to kill off this stinky variety • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account.
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May 5, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Camille Rodríguez Montilla
VALLE SECO, Venezuela — Estrella Villamizar grabbed the soft red and white coral by its stem and hacked it off with a blow of her wooden knife before tossing it in a bucket with other pieces she’d already ripped out of the Caribbean waters lapping against this deserted beach. On the sea bed, stretching for a distance as far as the eye could see, a blanket of the dark coral swayed in the warm current.
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May 13, 2023 | 
bloomberglinea.com | Camille Rodríguez Montilla
LatestquotesBloomberg — In the early 2000s, people in northern Venezuela say, a man tried to grow and commercialize a coral species for decorating aquariums. It turned into an ecological disaster. The pinkish-white, long-tentacled coral — Unomia stolonifera — is extremely invasive. It has now colonized 60 miles of Venezuela’s Caribbean coastline and approximately 1.2 million square miles of the sea floor in Mochima National Park, where it’s wreaking havoc on marine habitats and other coral species.
