Crisis in Venezuela Earns Varying Degrees of Global Response, Grassroots Organizers in Honduras With a Lesson For America, Global Notes: Indigenous Central American Music

By Worldview Staff
VENEZUELA MADURO
In this photo provided by the Miraflores Presidential Palace, President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a event marking the 81st anniversary of the National Guard, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, August 4, 2019. Venezuela's government says several explosions heard at a military event were an attempted attack on President Maduro. Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez said in a live broadcast that several drone-like devices with explosives detonated near the president. He said Maduro is safe and unharmed but that seven people were injured. Courtesy / AP Photo
In this photo provided by the Miraflores Presidential Palace, President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a event marking the 81st anniversary of the National Guard, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, August 4, 2019. Venezuela's government says several explosions heard at a military event were an attempted attack on President Maduro. Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez said in a live broadcast that several drone-like devices with explosives detonated near the president. He said Maduro is safe and unharmed but that seven people were injured. Courtesy / AP Photo
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VENEZUELA MADURO
In this photo provided by the Miraflores Presidential Palace, President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a event marking the 81st anniversary of the National Guard, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, August 4, 2019. Venezuela's government says several explosions heard at a military event were an attempted attack on President Maduro. Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez said in a live broadcast that several drone-like devices with explosives detonated near the president. He said Maduro is safe and unharmed but that seven people were injured. Courtesy / AP Photo
In this photo provided by the Miraflores Presidential Palace, President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a event marking the 81st anniversary of the National Guard, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, August 4, 2019. Venezuela's government says several explosions heard at a military event were an attempted attack on President Maduro. Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez said in a live broadcast that several drone-like devices with explosives detonated near the president. He said Maduro is safe and unharmed but that seven people were injured. Courtesy / AP Photo
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Crisis in Venezuela Earns Varying Degrees of Global Response, Grassroots Organizers in Honduras With a Lesson For America, Global Notes: Indigenous Central American Music

By Worldview Staff
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On Today’s Show:

  • The economic crisis in Venezuela has produced one of the worst humanitarian crises in the modern history of our hemisphere.
  • Carlos Porfirio Armijo joins Worldview to discuss his work as an indigenous community organizer in Honduras.
  • On this week’s Global Notes segment, Vocalo’s Beat Latino host and producer Catalina Maria Johnson will discuss how musicians are keeping endangered indigenous languages alive.