The inhabitants of Guanta, a city in the state of Anzoátegui bordering Puerto La Cruz, Barcelona and Lechería, live in fear. A refinery has been operating there for 69 years now and they are well aware that an accident could put them at risk. And that is exactly what happened on the Saturday evening of June 8 of 2019: heavy rainfall was followed by three explosions…
I graduated from the Central University of Venezuela in 1981 and I have been practicing journalism for 40 years... and I haven’t regretted it for a second. I was a full-time reporter, mostly of politics, until 1999. I have been working in El Tiempo, Puerto La Cruz, for 36 years and I am now looking for a little time to learn to tell stories. At least that’s what I am trying to do.
