Excited for My March Break in Madrid: Catching Up and Exploring!
Tickets bought: I will be going to Madrid soon!
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Caracas Western Barrios
An afternoon visit to Caracas western 'barrios' of Catia, El Cementerio, and Antímano, some of the most fascinating parts of the Venezuelan capital.
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Staying Put, Moving Forward: Writing, Work, and Moving Ahead
Stuck in Caracas, but working on a personal project. Preparing for a busy work period in February and March. Planning my spring holidays.
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Navigating Plans and Opportunities: Looking Ahead to 2025
Changing holiday plans, given the work challenges.
Preparing for the European Humanitarian Forum.
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2025: Happy New Year
Best wishes for 2025 to all the readers of the blog.
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Flash news/Press review:
13.01.2025: Euronews: The Trump administration cares "a lot about Europe", US Vice President JD Vance told Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday, mere hours after the White House slapped steep tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium, prompting the president of the European Commission to vow taking "firm and proportionate countermeasures".
26.01.2025: Euronews: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who is a close ally of Vladimir Putin and supports his war in Ukraine, is standing for election for the seventh time.
11.01.2025: Aljazeera on the conflict in Sudan: Sudan military pushes back the rebels from Omdurman. The campaign is part of a new phase of the war that erupted in April 2023, with fighting heavily concentrated in Khartoum and the last contested state in the sprawling western region of Darfur. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions.
03.01.2025: Poland assumes the the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for first six months of the year. Poland has annouced that the primary focus of its presidency will be around security of the EU.
01.01.2025: Euronews: Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law a bill on Tuesday which will commute sentences of around 60 prisoners on death row to jail time.
21.12. 2024: On December 20, 2024, Sri Lanka’s navy rescued 102 individuals, believed to be Rohingya refugees, found adrift on a fishing trawler off the northern coast. The group, including 25 children and 30 women, was transported to a naval base on Sri Lanka’s east coast, where they received medical care, food, and water.
08.12.2024: Uncertainty in Syria, as rebels approach Damascus and Bashar al-Asaad flees the country.
03.12.2024: Pro EU protests in Georgia meet a violent push back from the government. Al Jazeera: "The political crisis has deepened since its contested October election, with the opposition and the country’s pro-EU president, Salome Zurabishvili, accusing the party of rigging the election. Several Western countries have also questioned its result."
22.11.2024: Euronews: Austria has agreed to lift its long-held veto on the accession of Romania and Bulgaria into the passport-free Schengen Area, which the two Eastern European countries have for years sought to achieve only to be met with Vienna's resistance.