Bloomberg – Cashea, Venezuela’s largest financial technology company, secured $100 million through two funding rounds, reflecting growing confidence among international investors in the company’s expansion within a market where credit has remained limited for years. Cashea completed a $60 million Series B round in June, led by FinSight Ventures, with participation from Endeavor Catalyst, Plug […]
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Few governments can realistically prepare for a seismic event as devastating as the twin earthquakes that struck on June 24. Still, the country’s rescue teams and firefighters lacked the equipment they needed to respond during the critical first hours after the disaster. That is the assessment of Stalin González, a member of the National Assembly, […]
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According to the latest figures provided by Rector Víctor Rago, 51 members of the Central University of Venezuela community lost their lives in the earthquakes. By Vanessa Davies The classmates of Stephanie Zambrano and Jesús Santana, students in the Department of Literature at the School of Humanities and Education at the Central University of Venezuela […]
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Audio: https://clyp.it/sleaff2l Julio A. López, Editor-in-Chief.— Two oil tankers carrying Saudi crude bound for China and India reversed course in the Red Sea on Tuesday after Yemen’s Houthis announced a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia on Monday, opening a third active front in the U.S.-Iran war and directly hitting the kingdom’s last remaining escape route for […]
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The Daily Journal — Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) opened a three-day summit in Manila on Tuesday, focusing on the region’s most pressing security challenges amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East and rising tensions in the South China Sea. Following a closed-door meeting in the Philippine capital, the diplomats […]
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The Daily Journal — London is hosting an outdoor installation by Venezuelan kinetic artist Jesús Rafael Soto for the first time. Pénétrable BBL Jaune, a ten-meter-long work featuring 4,000 vinyl strands suspended from a steel structure, forms part of the Serpentine Galleries’ summer Art in the Park program, sponsored primarily by Britannia Financial Group. Visitors […]
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The Daily Journal — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday condemned remarks by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who said the country will never hold elections again. In a post on X, Rubio said, “Daniel Ortega’s declaration that, under his family’s dictatorship, Nicaragua will never hold elections again exposes the regime’s true authoritarian nature.” […]
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The Daily Journal — Global hunger declined slightly in 2025, affecting 645 million people, or 7.8% of the world’s population, according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI 2026), an annual report that several United Nations agencies presented Tuesday in Rome. The report highlights steady progress in Latin America and […]
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The Daily Journal — The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has scheduled a status hearing for Wednesday, July 22, as part of the criminal proceedings involving Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores. The hearing will begin at 12:00 p.m. New York time. The court will review the case’s current status, while […]
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The Daily Journal — The Venezuelan Medical Federation (FMV) has urged the national government to take immediate action as a highly lethal disease spreads rapidly and claims several lives in the states of Barinas and Anzoátegui. In a statement signed by FMV President Douglas León Natera and Secretary General Rafael Belmonte, the federation’s leadership endorsed […]
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