More than two months have passed since the twin earthquakes struck Caracas, Venezuela, on the evening of June 24, 2026. Yet when recalling those days, Vladimir Castillo Soto of the Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity among Peoples, Venezuela, still cannot hide his emotion. His face lights up when he mentions two words: Viet Nam. “I am not simply telling the story of a relief effort,” he begins in a contemplative voice. “I am telling the story of how a people affirmed to the world what the words ‘comradeship and brotherhood’ truly mean.”