55 millones de personas enfrentan la hambruna mientras las economías devastadas por COVID no logran sus objetivos de financiamiento

Las naciones de todo el mundo se han apresurado a tomar medidas de emergencia a raíz del COVID-19, ya que las empresas se vieron interrumpidas, las líneas de suministro se cortaron y las economías se atrofiaron, lo que dejó a los programas de ayuda exterior con fondos insuficientes y a millones sin alimentos.

Alan Macleod
Por Alan Macleod
COVID famine Feature photo

More than 55 million people in seven countries are in desperate need of COVID-19-related famine relief. That is according to a new report from international charity Oxfam, entitled “Later will be too late.” The report details how 55.5 million people in seven countries — Yemen, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the

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Grupos de ayuda piden un rescate mundial de COVID-19 en medio de temores de hambre masiva

"Hasta 12,000 personas podrían morir cada día por hambre relacionada con COVID, que es más que las que mueren diariamente por el virus", advierte el presidente de Oxfam América, Abby Maxman.

Alan Macleod
Por Alan Macleod
COVID-19 Hunger Feature photo

The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have already devastated the world. Over 14 million people have tested positive for the virus, and nearly 600,000 have died since it was first identified in December. And cases continue to rise: yesterday saw 248,998 people test positive – an all-time high. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros

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Largas líneas de pan se forman fuera de los bancos de alimentos mientras Estados Unidos lucha para hacer frente a las consecuencias de COVID-19

MintPress News habló con varias personas en primera línea que intentaban mantener a Estados Unidos alimentado durante la peor pandemia en un siglo.

Alan Macleod
Por Alan Macleod
Coronavirus Food Bank Top Story photo

At least 10,000 cars line up in an orderly fashion in San Antonio, all full of hungry, increasingly desperate people. Thousands already arrived the night before just to get a chance to eat. “We just can’t feed this many,” said the CEO of the local food bank that Texans have descended upon. It is a scene playing out across the country; 1,300 cars

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La guerra económica de Estados Unidos contra Venezuela tiene como objetivo el programa de alimentos CLAP en el que se basan millones de personas

Si bien a EE. UU. Le gusta caracterizar sus esfuerzos de cambio de régimen en Venezuela como humanitarios en su naturaleza, la selección de funcionarios involucrados en un programa en el que confían tantos venezolanos comunes revela que EE. UU. Pretende instalar al líder opositor Juan Guaido por cualquier medio que sea necesario.

Alexander Rubinstein
Por Alexander Rubinstein
Venezuela Sanctions Hunger

CARACAS, VENEZUELA -- The U.S. government is preparing to levy sanctions against officials associated with Venezuela’s food subsidy program known as CLAP, the latest in a long list of unilateral coercive measures against the country. The new sanctions follow a report by the Center for Economic Policy Research, which stated that 40,000

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First International Conference Against US/NATO Bases Addresses Militarism

Unlike so much liberal and progressive political discourse in the US, which is obsessed with the personality of President Trump, the international perspective of this conference penetrated that distracting fog and concentrated on the continuity of US militarism regardless of who sits in the Oval Office.

Roger D. Harris
Por Roger D. Harris
Protestors march next to giant puppet of U.S. President Donald Trump during a demonstration in Brussels, Saturday, July 7, 2018. Europeans are protesting U.S. President Donald Trump's appearance at a NATO summit, marching through Brussels to plead for less military spending and more public money for schools and clean energy. Geert Vanden Wijngaert | AP

For the first time in the history of humanity, the technical means are at hand to eliminate poverty if resources were not diverted to making war. World hunger could be abolished with only a small diversion from military budgets. The only luxuries that so-called middle-class Americans would have to forego would be the Blue Angels air show and

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Save the Children: 85,000 Children May Have Already Died of Hunger in Yemen

The war has given rise to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Three-quarters of Yemen’s people require life-saving assistance and more than 8 million are at risk of starvation. Tens of thousands of people are believed to have been killed in the fighting.

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MintPress News Desk
Por Associated Press
Y MintPress News Desk
Yemen Famine

A leading international aid group said Wednesday that an estimated 85,000 Yemeni children under the age of 5 may have died of hunger and disease since the outbreak of the country's civil war in 2015. Save the Children based its figures on mortality rates for untreated cases of severe acute malnutrition, or SAM, in young children. The United

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