Valentina Oropeza

Journalist

VALENTINA OROPEZA

I’m Venezuelan and have been doing journalism since 2003. I speak Spanish, English and French. I founded the investigation units of the Venezuelan websites Prodavinci (2016) and Contrapunto (2014). I have written for the newspapers Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), El Nacional (Venezuela), Reforma (Mexico) and El Universo (Ecuador). I was a correspondent for Agence France-Presse in Caracas.

I was a grantee at the Pulitzer Center (2020) and a fellow at the World Press Institute at Saint Paul University (2014). I studied journalism at the Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas (2005). I have a master degree in International Relations at the Barcelona Institute for International Studies in Spain (2010), and got a diploma in journalism and development at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication in New Delhi (2012).

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Stories

Coverages

The pastor and the 16 of Trinidad

Eliezer Torres fights for the release of 16 Venezuelan children who were detained in Trinidad after entering the island irregularly.

The Quarantines of Leo

Leonardo Ramírez was the only videographer in the world who filmed the beginning of the quarantine in Wuhan. This is a portrait of the first confinement of the covid-19 pandemic.

Times of malaria in Venezuela

This coverage explains why Venezuela became the main focus of malaria transmission in America, after being the first country to eliminate it.

Living without water

This is the only available estimate in Venezuela on how many people lack running water and for how long in a week between 2016 and 2017.

More Coverages

valentina oropeza

Stories

The pastor and the 16 of Trinidad

Eliezer Torres fights for the release of 16 Venezuelan children who were detained in Trinidad after entering the island irregularly.

The Quarantines of Leo

Leonardo Ramírez was the only videographer in the world who filmed the beginning of the quarantine in Wuhan. This is a portrait of the first confinement of the covid-19 pandemic.