🧵Last yr, 250,000 ppl crossed the Darién jungle in a desperate attempt to make it to the US. This year, that number has already reached 360k. @federicorios and I have returned again & again to the jungle, trying to understand this flow. Some anecdotes from our latest reporting. Most people risking the Darién trek continue to be from Venezuela, like Samuel, 13, on the left. But Ecuadoreans fleeing a relatively new security crisis at home, like Geomaira, 21, right, are now the second largest group in the jungle.

🧵Once again, we traveled across Peru to document ongoing protest.

The unrest is now far broader than anger over who runs the country. Instead, it represents a profound frustration with Peru’s young democracy. W. @federicorios

nyti.ms/3HafVaF Rather than fade, protests in rural Peru that began more than a month ago over the ouster of the former president have only grown in size and in the scope of demonstrators’ demands. This is from a roadblock we passed last week outside of Juliaca, in southern Peru.

🧵JUST IN. The U.S. has granted a new license to Chevron, allowing it to expand ops in Venezuela. This could represent a step toward allowing Vzla to re-enter the internat'l oil market, something Maduro desperately needs to improve the economy.

Some caveats/explanation below... First, here is our story on the Chevron deal and related talks between the Venezuelan government and Venezuelan opposition. nytimes.com/2022/11/25/wor…

🧵A rare meeting between leaders of Venezuela’s bitterly divided government and opposition is expected to result in two major agreements meant to ease the country’s complex political and humanitarian crisis.

nyti.ms/3AGD2Gr The meeting between the Venezuelan government and opposition partly reflects the economic ripple effects of Russia’s Ukraine invasion, which has reduced global oil supplies and pushed the U.S. to reconsider its restrictions on energy companies operating in Venezuela.

1/HILO: Nuestra más reciente entrega en una serie sobre ser mujer en la crisis de Venezuela trata sobre cómo la falta de anticonceptivos ha cambiado radicalmente la vida de las mujeres.
nytimes.com/es/2021/02/20/… 2/En Venezuela, el salario mínimo es de 1,50 dólares. Un paquete de 3 condones cuesta 4,40. Un mes de la píldora cuesta 11. Si eres una mujer en esta situación, ¿cómo te proteges? ¿Cómo controlas tu futuro?

1/THREAD: Our latest in a series on womanhood amid Venezuela’s crisis examines how an absence of birth control has radically changed women's lives. nytimes.com/2021/02/20/wor… 2/Today in Venezuela, the minimum wage is $1.50 USD. A pack of condoms costs $4.40. A month of birth control pills costs $11. Imagine you’re a woman in this situation. How do you protect yourself? How do you control your future?

THREAD: Our new story traces the spread of coronavirus deep into the Brazilian Amazon, where we found exposure rates as high as New York City and death rates among the highest in the country. nytimes.com/interactive/20… The Amazon River is South America’s great life source, supporting an estimated 30 million people. But it is now spreading disease, as boats ply the river, carrying the virus from town to town.

THREAD: We traveled more than a thousand miles across Colombia to examine how the pandemic and lockdowns are affecting everyday families, looking for a window into what is happening across Latin America. nytimes.com/2020/07/11/wor… Why did we make this journey? Over the last 20 years, Latin America has dramatically reduced inequality, and millions moved out of poverty. The pandemic threatens to reverse those gains like nothing else in recent history. Here: evictions in Bogotá.

1/Many of you know that I have reported from many tense and emotional situations, namely covering school shootings in the United States. Covering childbirth in Venezuela was by far the most harrowing reporting experience I have had. nyti.ms/2Vm6b4f 2/We wanted to understand what it is like to give birth in a place where the government refuses to release maternal and infant death statistics. So we — this reporter, with @MeridithKohut @IsayenHG and @surdaneta — followed women to 6 Venezuelan hospitals and 1 across the border.

UPDATED: Authorities have arrested a man they say plotted to blow up a Colorado synagogue. Temple Emanuel is more than 100 years old; some of its congregants are the children of Holocaust survivors. I just got off the phone with the rabbi who told me ... nyti.ms/2JO5FHi ...that the Pittsburgh attack last year had rattled her congregation, but that she had not expected a community “in the middle of nowhere Colorado” to be a target.

I recently met Sam Fortune, who served in Iraq twice. When he returned, he learned his water had been badly polluted by the very military he'd served.

He is one of tens of thousands.

nyti.ms/2GENqEb This is a complex story, so I'm going to break it down.

For many Americans, a shutdown is a minor inconvenience. But for Native American tribes, it can cripple the most basic community functions. Among the programs curtailed: a food program that fed 90,000 last year. My first report of 2019, with @MitchKSmith nyti.ms/2GNmym8 The program I mentioned, the Food Distribution Program
on Indian Reservations, is designed to make sure some of the poorest Americans can eat; it delivers food directly to distribution centers on reservations, where families with qualifying incomes can pick up milk, meat, etc.