The Crisis in Yemen, military drone operator, and Mano a Mano helps Bolivians

The Crisis in Yemen, military drone operator, and Mano a Mano helps Bolivians
The Crisis in Yemen, military drone operator, and Mano a Mano helps Bolivians

The Crisis in Yemen, military drone operator, and Mano a Mano helps Bolivians

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Despite reaching an agreement to pull back and end the crisis of the last several months, Yemen’s Houthi rebels surrounded the presidential palace in Sana. Now President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has resigned. We talk to Joe Kechichian, Gulf State scholar and writer for Gulf News. The use of drones by the United States has been a highly controversial subject over the last decade. Mike Lanchin of the BBC speaks to Brandon Bryant an American airman, who worked as a drone operator for almost five years. Segundo Velasquez and his wife, Joan, started the NGO, ‘Mano a Mano International Partners’ to collect surplus medical supplies and equipment for Bolivans. Now Mano a Mano’s work has expanded to deliver food and school supplies and build some 300 infrastructure projects throughout Bolivia. We find out how they’ve done it PHOTO: Former Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi(AP Photo/Yemen’s Defense Ministry, File) (AP Photo/Yemen’s Defense Ministry, File)