We begin our series of highlights with Anabella Arcay—a tenacious entrepreneur who brought her award-winning Arcay Chocolates along with her when her family decided to migrate to the US. A Venezuelan-Italian, Anabella was born in Caracas, Venezuela, to two Venezuelan…
After energy derived from fossil fuels – oil – the fashion industry is the second most polluting industry in the world. So it says the United Nations: large-scale textile production generates 10% of all carbon emissions on the planet (which…
Después de la energía derivada de combustibles fósiles –el petróleo–, la industria de la moda es la segunda más contaminante del mundo. Lo dice la Organización de las Naciones Unidas: la producción textil a gran escala genera el 10% de…
The United States is the second most polluting country in the world, according to the latest U.N. emissions report, which registered a record year of greenhouse gas emissions. In 2017, the Trump government withdrew from the Paris Agreement, under which…
Estados Unidos es el segundo país más contaminante del mundo, según el último informe de la disparidad de emisiones de la ONU, que dio cuenta de un año récord en emisión de gases de efecto invernadero en el planeta. En…
The 25th edition of the United Nations Climate Summit (COP25) is being inaugurated today in Madrid, with the purpose of “laying the foundations to a new climatic action phase.” The event, which brings together 50 heads of state and government,…
La Cumbre del Clima de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas en su edición 25 (COP25) está en plena inauguración hoy en Madrid, con el compromiso de “sentar las bases para una nueva fase de acción climática“. El evento, que…
A professor from the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela, also a biologist and oceanographer, emigrated to Pamplona, Navarra (in the north of Spain) in 2013, with his wife and three children. The couple set up a café downtown, in the…
Un profesor de la Universidad de Oriente de Venezuela, biólogo y oceanógrafo emigró a Pamplona, Navarra –al norte de España–en 2013, con su esposa y sus tres hijos. La pareja montó un café en el pleno centro de la ciudad,…
When, in September 2018, Eduardo Stein –former vice-president of Guatemala- – was appointed as special representative of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) for Venezuelan refugees and migrants in Latin America, these two agencies…