SOS Venezuela

Dear friends,

First of all, thankyou and welcome to new paid subscribers. I hope to have more to report soon — meanwhile, the financial help is much appreciated as I recover from a (thankfully mild!) head injury and can't work so much.

Something that can't help but cut through the brain fog is the 2 earthquakes in Venezuela that occurred on June 24. So I wanted to share the following opportunities to donate to help people rebuild, and some recommendations for people to follow to get a sense of how people are going on the ground.

Donations:

• Donar Seguro - choose how you would like to help and donate to vetted organizations

Follow:

• Ceiba Periodismo - they also have a fundraiser for direct aid to Venezuela earthquake relief
• Journalists profiled in this Global Voices article
• El Alicanto - a new newsletter rounding up investigative journalism in Latin America, this month with links to corruption and missing people investigations by local journalists in Venezeula.

In other news, here's my report for Al-Jazeera English on the Cubans with decades living in the US getting dumped in Mexico. I've provided some additional context at this bluesky thread if you're interested in diving a little deeper.

Thankyou for staying with the trouble,
Ann.