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
Susana Raffalli’s emergencies
She was one of the 100 most inspiring and influential women of 2020, according to the BBC. The first that measured child malnutrition in Venezuela during the humanitarian emergency.
“Daddy, I’m skinny. I want to go to Trinidad”
Jesús Uricare tells the story of his son Fabián, a 12-year-old boy who was arrested in Trinidad when he tried to enter the island in an irregular boat.
Misión Vivienda: Testimonies, figures and challenges
This coverage explains why it was unfeasible for the Venezuelan government to fulfill the promise of delivering one million social housing units by December 2015.
Justice to the fallen
This coverage shows that almost all the judicial cases that were opened after the death of 43 people, in protests against the government of Nicolás Maduro in 2014, went unpunished.
valentina oropeza
Stories
Susana Raffalli’s emergencies
She was one of the 100 most inspiring and influential women of 2020, according to the BBC. The first that measured child malnutrition in Venezuela during the humanitarian emergency.
“Daddy, I’m skinny. I want to go to Trinidad”
Jesús Uricare tells the story of his son Fabián, a 12-year-old boy who was arrested in Trinidad when he tried to enter the island in an irregular boat.
valentina oropeza
Coverages
Misión Vivienda: Testimonies, figures and challenges
This coverage explains why it was unfeasible for the Venezuelan government to fulfill the promise of delivering one million social housing units by December 2015.
Justice to the fallen
This coverage shows that almost all the judicial cases that were opened after the death of 43 people, in protests against the government of Nicolás Maduro in 2014, went unpunished.
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Valentina Oropeza
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