PRESS REVIEW – Monday, June 29: Papers discuss the ongoing search efforts in Venezuela and the government's "negligence”. Next: In Japan, maternity leave is a taboo topic. So are LGBTQ+ rights. Also: Le Monde analyses “Vladimir Putin or the solitude of homo sovieticus”. Finally, the hit horror film "Obsession" turns out to be quite relatable.
The ongoing search efforts in Venezuela are making headlines. Spanish newspaper El País reads “Venezuela is saving itself with its own hands”, adding that search operations are “lacking resources”, while authorities there say they are recovering up to 20 bodies per hour. Survivors interviewed by French paper Libération also criticize “the negligence of a country ravaged by economic collapse, autocratic abuses, and US pressure”. Interviewees added that the country was “already in ruins” before the earthquakes. Venezuelan opposition leader Julio Borges Junyent wrote an opinion piece in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo. He says that “the earthquake did not cause Venezuela’s destruction, but made it visible”. “Venezuela without leadership,” is the headline of an editorial in Venezuelan opposition newspaper El Nacional. The periodical says the country is faced with a government that's “illegitimate and incompetent”, but praises the courage of the citizens who “are now facing mountains of rubble, alone, armed only with their own resources”.
