Talk:2019 shipping of humanitarian aid to Venezuela

First shipment of the Red Cross

The first shipment of the Red Cross arrived to Venezuela @SandyGeorgia and Jamez42::

• Reuters piece
• Washington Post piece

--MaoGo (talk) 19:07, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

• @MaoGo: I will work on Red Cross ... the trucks are up the hill and to the warehouse! Have this for you (looks very complete)! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:12, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

• Thanks for that item @SandyGeorgia:!--MaoGo (talk) 19:34, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

To watch

... for further developments. https://www.ntn24.com/america-latina/venezuela/protestan-en-la-cruz-roja-para-exigir-la-distribucion-de-medicamentos-de-la SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:56, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Repeated paragraph in "incidents"

Humanitarian aid was stockpiled on the Brazilian border, with the intent to bring it into Venezuela. On 20 February, Dragoon 300 armoured fighting vehicles of the Armored Cavalry Squadron were seen entering the Gran Sabana region.[62] Groups of indigenous Pemon peoples blocked the entry of the military vehicles into the region,[63] and members of armed forces loyal to Maduro fired upon them with live ammunition on 22 February.[63] Fifteen Pemon were injured, four seriously, and two Pemon were killed.[64][65] The injured were transferred to Brazil due to the shortage of medical supplies in the Venezuelan hospital of Santa Elena de Uairén.[63] Following the crackdown, indigenous groups detained thirty-six soldiers and held them in the jungle.[66]

On 22 February, in the Gran Sabana Municipality, the Venezuelan National Guard attempted to block the entry of humanitarian aid and was confronted by the indigenous Pemon community of Kumarakapay. As a result of the confrontation, fifteen Pemon were injured and two were killed.[67][65] Deputy Américo de Grazia, denounced the lack of medicine and ambulances to transport the wounded.[68] Those injured were transported into Brazil for treatment due to the shortage of medical goods in the hospital of Santa Elena de Uairén.[63]

These two paragraphs, which appear at the beginning of the "Incidents" category, repeat the same story twice. I do not have sufficient permissions to edit the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Builder018 (talk • contribs) 13:21, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Reuters article

@Jamez42 and SandyGeorgia: this recent article covers some hard stories Soldiers held hostage, villagers killed: the untold story of Venezuelan aid violence (Reuters).--MaoGo (talk) 15:09, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

I was just coming here to post that! I do not believe I will have time to get to it ... SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:24, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

This is a situation that hasn't received enough attention, and has happened months before the 23 February. The Pemon once burned a military outpost in retaliation. I thought about creating an article in Spanish, but I wasn't sure about how to name it and wanted to be careful of WP:SYNTH. --Jamez42 (talk) 15:31, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

AFP about burning truck photos

Article of AFP confirming Salcedo Flores version (not about NYT) [1]. --MaoGo (talk) 08:28, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

El País, one of the newspapers supporting the version that the trucks were set on fire by the Venezuela government, recently published a rectification and now says that The New York Times version (the trucks caught fire with a Molotov cocktail thrown by a protester) has full credibility. --MarioGom (talk) 07:32, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

@MarioGom: That is an opinion article, which can be noted in its URL. Rather than a rectification, it is a criticism of El País of not changing its information despite complaints by the author. --Jamez42 (talk) 17:57, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

@Jamez42:: This is the "Defensor del lector" section (Readers' Defender / Readers' Advocate) where Carlos Yárnoz (Readers' Advocate, El País staff) replies to readers' inquiries on news accuracy. Corrections are often voiced here when they are done on readers' request rather than by legal action or threat of legal action. If you read the piece, you will see that the author of the original news piece recognizes that 1) he gives full credibility to the NYT report and that 2) not conducting an in-depth research as NYT's was an error. See:

Lafuente, desde México, y Francesco Manetto, corresponsal jefe de EL PAÍS en Colombia para la Región Andina y Venezuela, dieron y dan “toda la credibilidad” al trabajo del NYT. “Una información impoluta”, precisa Lafuente.

Rough translation:

Lafuente [original reporter], from Mexico, and Francesco Manetto, chief reporter of El País in Colombia for the Andine Regiona and Venezuela, gave and give "all credibility" to the work of NYT. "A flawless information piece", precised Lafuente.

Every relevant stakeholder at El País (Yárnoz, Lafuente, Manetto) gives full credibility to the NYT report on the issue. --MarioGom (talk) 11:01, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

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