by Andrea | Oct 16, 2026 | News
Blog de Valentina Oropeza “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 commit torture. In March, I stood in line outside that...
by Valentina Oropeza | Oct 9, 2026 | News
Blog de Valentina Oropeza A Moment of “Pause” 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...
by Valentina Oropeza | Sep 30, 2026 | News
Blog de Valentina Oropeza “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...
by Valentina Oropeza | Sep 25, 2026 | News
Blog de Valentina Oropeza “I Couldn’t Take Another Step” Raul Sanchez Sanchez was wearing a backpack, a red T-shirt and black tennis shoes the last time he was seen alive. He had been missing for seven weeks when the volunteer group Águilas del...
by Valentina Oropeza | Sep 15, 2026 | News
Blog de Valentina Oropeza “It’s Shaking Again” Daniela Villarroel took off her boots and uniform in the garden. He didn’t want the smell of death to enter his house.This 28-year-old volunteer firefighter immersed herself in the rubble of La Guaira for 18...
by Valentina Oropeza | Sep 7, 2026 | News
Blog de Valentina Oropeza “They Were Not Figures. They Were Neighbors” The ranchos in the mountains were left standing. The city’s buildings collapsed. When Susana Raffalli Arismendi visited La Guaira for the first time after the earthquakes, she was...
