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...
by Valentina Oropeza | Jul 26, 2026 | News
Blog de Valentina Oropeza “We’re just grateful to be alive” Here’s my contribution to the BBC News Mundo newsletter for this Friday, June 26—two days after the earthquakes in Venezuela… When the earthquake struck Venezuela on Wednesday, June 24, at...
