I am Valentina Oropeza Colmenares.
I tell stories. My focus is Venezuela.
This is my portfolio.
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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.
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.
Blog
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.
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.
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.
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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