VALENTINA OROPEZA
Valentina Oropeza is a Venezuelan journalist with 20 years experience. She currently covers the United States and Latin America for global audiences at the BBC. She has worked as a reporter, investigative editor, special envoy, foreign correspondent, radio host and documentary producer.
She founded two investigative units in Venezuelan media and has led investigations that have received more than a dozen awards such as the King of Spain Award, the Roche Award and the award for journalistic excellence from the Inter-American Press Association.
She has been a grantee of the Pulitzer Center and fellow of the World Press Institute at Saint Paul University.
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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.
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.
valentina oropeza
Coverages
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.
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