On Monday, February 18, 2019, three weeks before March 7, when a power cut left the entire country in the dark, Caimancito, a village located in the northeast of the state of Sucre, had already been experiencing an extended blackout that had only been interrupted by a few and occasional periods of electricity supply. That is where Mérida, aged 50, lives, and this is her story…
I am a journalist, an activist and a human rights defender. I insist on the need to document what’s happening in Venezuela. La Vida de Nos offers me a platform to show some of the vulnerability of my beloved state of Sucre.
