#WeExplainTheDay | Monday, July 8

• The US renewed PDVSA’s license for liquefied gas exports; Cancer patients protested at the IVSS headquarters in Caracas; Inameh predicts rain with electrical discharges due to tropical wave number 18; Beryl made landfall as a hurricane on the coast of Texas

On Monday, July 8, the United States Department of the Treasury issued a license allowing Venezuela to continue exporting and re-exporting liquefied petroleum gas.

Relatives and cancer patients protested in front of the Venezuelan Social Security Institute (IVSS) in Caracas to demand that the Venezuelan state distribute the drug Trastuzumab.

In international news, Beryl made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane near Matagorda in Texas, United States.

The National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (INAMEH) has forecast rains of varying intensity accompanied by electrical activity, as tropical wave number 18 is located east of the state of Sucre.

Below are the most important news from Monday, July 8:

On Monday, July 8, the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued license 40C, which allows Venezuela to continue exporting and re-exporting liquefied petroleum gas.

The entity, attached to the Treasury Department of that country, explained that this measure replaces general license 40B, issued on July 10, 2023. The document indicates that “any payment in kind of oil or petroleum products” will not be allowed.

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“This general license does not authorize (…) any transaction prohibited by the Venezuela Sanctions Regulations, including transactions involving any blocked person other than PDVSA, any entity in which PDVSA owns, directly or indirectly, a 50% or more interest, or any person of the government of Venezuela that is blocked,” the document details.

The decree highlights that no person is exempt from compliance with the requirements of other federal agencies, including the Department of Industry and Trade Security Office, in order to process the respective permits in order to do business with PDVSA.

On Monday, July 8, relatives and cancer patients protested in front of the IVSS headquarters in Caracas to demand that the Venezuelan state distribute the drug Trastuzumab.

Patients are also demanding that oncology services in the country’s public institutions be guaranteed to function properly.

Photo: EFE/Miguel Gutierrez

“We can only prolong our lives with medication. They tell us to wait for the treatment to arrive, but we can’t wait. There are medicines that are impossible to buy and it’s devastating,” patient Zoramir Rangel told The Whistle.

The protesters, mostly women, said they do not have the resources to pay for the medicines they need for their health condition, so they hold raffles to obtain the income that will allow them to try to cover the treatment.

On July 8, Inameh reported that tropical wave number 18 is located east of Sucre state, and forecast rains of varying intensity accompanied by electrical activity in several regions of Venezuela.

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Inameh predicts that cloud cover will increase in the aforementioned entities at night due to the interaction of the wave with the intertropical convergence zone.

For Greater Caracas, rain is forecast for this followingnoon and evening, some with electrical activity. Maximum temperatures in this area will be 29°C and minimum temperatures of 19°C, with moderate winds.

Hurricane Beryl made landfall on Monday, July 8, as a Category 1 storm near Matagorda, Texas, threatening strong winds, a “dangerous” storm surge and flash flooding, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC).

Beryl, the first hurricane to hit the U.S. coast this season, had maximum sustained winds of 130 kilometers per hour when it made landfall at 4:00 a.m. (local time), the Miami-based NHC said.

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The center of the storm is expected to move over eastern Texas on Monday, July 8, then across the Mississippi Valley on Tuesday and into the Ohio Valley on Wednesday.

5. Venezuelan journalist Carlos Omobono died

On Monday, July 8, Venezuelan journalist and broadcaster Carlos Omobono died in Italy due to natural causes.

“A protagonist in a golden age of radio, he shone on the FM Center circuit, which he made his home for more than 14 years,” the FM Center Circuit announced through its X account (formerly Twitter).

At FM Center, Omobono was part of the spaces: First in Star (96.3 FM) and then on the RQ 910 AM frequency with the program Between You and Me with Carlos Omobono. In addition, he was a television presenter on Televen with You and me with Carlos Omobono.

6. Lacalle Pou asked Mercosur to advocate for respect for electoral rights in Venezuela

Luis Lacalle Pou, President of Uruguay, called on his Mercosur partners from Asunción (Paraguay) on Monday, July 8, not to neglect the July 28 elections in Venezuela.

The president called for people to advocate for “respect for human rights” and the “electoral rights” of Venezuelans, reported the EFE news agency.

EFE/ Antonio Lacerda

“I do not want to let this moment pass for an episode that will take place on July 28 in South America, which are the elections in Venezuela,” said Lacalle Pou, in his first words following receiving from the hands of his Paraguayan counterpart, Santiago Peña, the gavel that symbolizes the rotating presidency of Mercosur.

Lacalle participated in a summit of Mercosur heads of state in the Paraguayan capital, which was also attended by Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Bolivian leader Luis Arce.

7. Paris airport unions called a strike 9 days before the Olympics

Several unions from the Paris airport management group ADP announced on Monday a strike for 17 July, nine days before the opening of the Olympic Games in Paris, to demand “extra pay” for all staff.

The unions calling for the strike (CGT, CFDT, FO and Unsa) have accused ADP’s executive director, Augustin de Romanet, of giving this incentive to part of the workforce and not to the whole, reported the EFE news agency.

The ADP group employs 570,000 people in France, mainly concentrated at the airports of Charles de Gaulle-Roissy (403,300), Orly (157,440) and Le Bourget (10,120).

Photo: Olympics.

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