valentina gonzales

I made a cup of coffee and sat down to revise for my 4th year finals — and suddenly, everything came flooding back. The last two and a half years. The bombs. The hunger. The displacement. The fear. The hospitals under attack. The universities destroyed. The training hospitals damaged. The healthcare system collapsing. The academic system collapsing. My professors killed. My colleagues and friends gone. I was a medical student… and a volunteer in hospitals while bombs fell around us. I kept studying while starving. I kept attending lectures while displaced. I kept going while everything around me was falling apart. There were days I couldn’t breathe from the weight of it all. Days I was broken. Depressed. Exhausted. Convinced I couldn’t carry any more. But then the Gazan spirit appeared. The one thing they can never destroy. We grieve. We break. We fall. Then we rise — like a phoenix from the ashes. Against every possible condition, I did something I never thought I could. I survived. I continued. I endured. I didn’t give up. Today, I’m still here. Stronger. More determined. Still fighting for my future. Still fighting for my people. Still choosing hope, even in the darkest time. This is not just resilience. This is Gaza. This is the spirit of Gaza. This is our resistance through life. This is how we survive.

Preguntéle a algún venezolano de más de 40 años, que empezó a pasar en Venezuela con los pasaportes por allá en 2005, sobre todo lo que le pasaba a la gente de la oposición para poder conseguir un pasaporte. Van a ver la razón por la que Petro se obsesionó con ese contrato.

Cientos de millones de personas en todo el planeta viven sumidas en la pobreza extrema. Y, sin embargo, existen riquezas desproporcionadas que permanecen en manos de unos pocos. Es una situación injusta ante la que no podemos dejar de interrogarnos y de comprometernos para cambiar las cosas. En la base de la desigualdad no hay una falta de recursos, sino la necesidad de afrontar problemas solucionables relativos a una distribución más justa, que debe llevarse a cabo con sentido moral y honestidad.