, larger impacts on their bottom lines may not be seen until farther down the road. The Xbox price hikes were announced just one day after Microsoft
Among those going hungry is Jackie Jean-Jacques, his wife and their three sons, who lost their home toand have lived in a crowded makeshift shelter for more than a year.
“There are days where the kids have to live on sugar water and bread,” he said. “It hurts me to see that.”Jean-Jacques, 52, used to work as a bus driver but could no longer afford to rent the bus or buy gasoline. Besides, he worries that one day gangs would open fire on his public transportation vehicle like they have on others.Meanwhile, his wife sells small items like plastic cups and lunch boxes on the street.
“This is not enough to feed us,” he said.While food and potable water were commonly distributed at shelters, aid began to dwindle after the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump in late February decided to terminate
“Since March 2025, funding has no longer been guaranteed,” according to the report issued Monday.
It said that from August 2024 to February 2025, nearly 977,000 Haitians received humanitarian food aid monthly, although rations have been reduced by up to half.The blast thundered through the Yani mining camp as two rival mining groups dispute access to the gold mine near the mountain town of Sorata, some 150 kilometers (about 90 miles) northwest of the country’s administrative capital of La Paz, said Col. Gunther Agudo, a local police officer. Several gold deposits straddle the remote area.
Agudo had initially reported six people killed but revised the toll to five after firefighters finished recovering the bodies from under the rubble. The dead included three men, a pregnant woman and an infant, he said.Bolivia’s deputy interior minister, Jhonny Aguilera, said the suspected perpetrator of the attack was killed by the explosion, which was detonated by remote control.
The predawn explosion at the mine struck a three-story house and set cars and tractors alight. The fires wrecked several other structures and cut electricity.Bolivia’s mining industry stands out for its huge sector of cooperatives — legal groups of artisanal miners — which drive 58% of mining production, according to the latest government figures. The thousands of groups also wield political clout in the resource-rich country where they have representation in Parliament.