Valentina Oropeza

Stories for Humans

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Public Speaking

Keynotes on leadership and resilience in extreme conditions, for academic, corporate and public audiences.

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Journalism

+20 years of experience on the ground covering the most urgent crises in the Americas.

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Investigation

+10 international awards for multimedia coverage that combines narrative journalism, investigation, data and solutions.

Award-Winning Stories

+8,2K de vistas en Youtube

The Searchers for Migrants Lost in the Sonora Desert

BBC News Mundo

Emmy Award in the “Outstanding Feature Story in Spanish” category.

The Broken Promise: The Collapse of Social Security in Venezuela

Prodavinci

King of Spain Award in the “International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid” category.

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Times of Malaria in Venezuela

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Award for Excellence in Journalism in the Health Journalism category from the Inter-American Press Association.
Roche Award for Health Journalism.

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+2,5K de vistas en Youtube

The Children of the Mine

Prodavinci and Univision, with support from the Pulitzer Center

Special Mention in the “Coverage” category at the 12th Edition of the Venezuelan Press and Society Institute Award.

Living Without Water

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Monsignor Pellín Award in the Web Reporting category from the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference.
First place in the 9th National Investigative Journalism Contest.

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“Thousands of Venezuelans”

Three courts are examining the repression in Venezuela. Today, in one of them, Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to...

How much does Washington’s word weigh on human rights in Venezuela? I asked Juanita Goebertus Estrada, Director of the Americas Division at Human Rights Watch, after the organization’s first official visit to Venezuela in 18 years.

“The Time Machine”

In the Venezuelan prison Rodeo I there is a place known as “the time machine”. It is a “hermetic underground cistern”, where detainees are forced to “remain naked and in absolute darkness” for days or even three months, according to the UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela.