Venezuela’s working-class communities get together to eat Christmas ‘hallacas’
Caracas, Venezuela Reuters Residents in working-class neighbourhoods of Venezuela’s capital city of Caracas are coming together to break bread over “hallacas”, a dish commonly served around Christmas, as part of an initiative to unite communities depleted by migration. Hallacas, a type of tamale filled with ingredients such as beef, chicken, olives and capers and wrapped […]
Essay: From Vietnam to the coronavirus pandemic, lies still kill
Writing from the US, Rev JIM WALLIS, founder of US social justice organisation Sojourners, writes about the dangers of lies in a time of crisis…