Valentina Oropeza

Journalist

I am Valentina Oropeza Colmenares.

I tell stories. My focus is Venezuela.

This is my portfolio.

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Stories

Coverages

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.

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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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Stories

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.

read more

valentina oropeza

Coverages

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.

read more

Blog

The antimalarial fight of Dr. Gabaldón

The antimalarial fight of Dr. Gabaldón

Venezuela was the first country to eliminate malaria. This comic tells how Dr. Arnoldo Gabaldón managed to control the contagion of the main threat to the public health of Venezuelans at the beginning of the 20th century.

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A volunteer in Beirut

A volunteer in Beirut

Cuando Chagid descubrió que buena parte del puerto de Beirut había desaparecido por la explosión, se secó las lágrimas para ver bien el camino. Se internó en la ciudad y la escena lo dejó mudo. Deambulaban personas ensangrentadas; una mujer luchaba por arrastrar dos maletas sobre los escombros.

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Bananas that float

Bananas that float

Conocí a Montserrat Barrios el día que comenzó a trabajar como bioanalista en el Centro para Estudios de Malaria de la UCV. Tenía 24 años y estaba por graduarse. Se ocuparía de diagnosticar a los pacientes con paludismo que llegaran al laboratorio, unos 50 por día para entonces, en septiembre de 2018.

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On the radio

El pastor y los 16 de Trinidad

La desigualdad de acceso a la atención sanitaria durante covid-19

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