JUAN PABLO ARRÁEZ

Irelis Baldirio hangs laundered used dolls to dry at the non-profit foundation Hospital de los Peluches, or Hospital of Stuffed Animals, where recycled toys are restored to be donated to vulnerable children as Christmas presents, in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
This hospital in Venezuela restores discarded toys for another round of love
One by one, the toys that show the wear and tear of love are restored for the holidays: sewed and combed, stuffed and dressed.
 
FILE - Venezuela's Leonel Martinez competes in the men's shooting trap final at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, Oct. 27, 2023. Martinez was only 20 years old when he took part in the Los Angeles Games in 1984, but says he’s in better shape now, at 60, as he prepares to compete in Paris after the second-longest gap between Olympic appearances in history. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)
40 years after competing in Los Angeles, Venezuelan shooter returns to the Olympics at age 60
It’s been 40 years since Venezuelan trap shooter Leonel Martínez last competed at the Olympics. He was only 20 when he took part in the Los Angeles Games in 1984, but says he’s in better shape now, at 60, as he prepares to compete in Paris after the second-longest gap between Olympic appearances in
 
A cat walks over waste lining the shore of Lake Maracaibo in the Santa Rosa de Agua neighborhood of Maracaibo, Venezuela, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. The pollution around the lake, one of Latin America's largest, is the result of decades of excessive oil exploitation on its bed, inadequate maintenance, and a lack of investment to improve an already obsolete infrastructure, according to environmentalists. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Pollution in Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo threatens life in one of the world’s oldest lakes
The fishermen of Lake Maracaibo say they face their worst nightmare everyday as fish stocks decline and pollution degrades the health of this great freshwater lake, one of the oldest — and largest — in the world.