La noche de las elecciones presidenciales en Venezuela, cientos de miles de personas vieron las actas de escrutinio que imprimieron las máquinas electorales. Y los testigos de la oposición no fueron los únicos que se quedaron con copias. Tres mujeres, dos testigos del partido oficialista y una jefa de comunidad, también de las filas chavistas, vencen el silencio y cuentan lo que vivieron.

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La noche de las elecciones presidenciales en Venezuela, cientos de miles de personas vieron las actas de escrutinio que imprimieron las máquinas electorales. Y los testigos de la oposición no fueron los únicos que se quedaron con copias. Tres mujeres, dos testigos del partido oficialista y una jefa de comunidad, también de las filas chavistas, vencen el silencio y cuentan lo que vivieron.

The Missing Link of the July 28th Election

Aug 26, 2024

The night of the July 28th election, hundreds of thousands of people saw the actas, and not only the opposition’s witnesses who kept copies. Two PSUV witnesses and a chavista community leader share their experiences.

A Tally Sheet, a Testimony, and a Proof of Life

Aug 11, 2024

That of July 28, 2024 was not just another election. Organized citizens, in defense of their votes, proved that Venezuela has a robust social fabric. This text weaves a thread into three testimonies of the gearwheel that was set in motion that and the following days by the citizens themselves to collect the tally sheets printed by the voting machines and make them available for the world to see. But there are more than three, for sure.

The True Value of Living in a Community

Aug 10, 2024

On April 30, 2019, the day when the final phase of the so-called “Operation Freedom” was set in motion in Caracas, Luisana Escobar and her neighbors were forced to leave their homes in Valencia, Venezuela, after a teargas canister exploded in one of the apartments of the building where they lived, setting it on fire.

Esa voz que se había instalado en mi cabeza

That Voice in My Head

Aug 09, 2024

María Laura Silva always wanted to be a doctor. She was presented with many an obstacle as a student of medicine, some of them posed by the crisis facing the country, but that didn’t undermine her determination to graduate.  Still, one day in 2018, while at work as a medical intern at a hospital, she began to ask herself whether she should stay the course.

She Needed to Be as Strong as Her Mother Had Been

Aug 08, 2024

Having just earned her degree as a medical doctor from the Central University of Venezuela, the protagonist of this story felt she could not find a reason to stay in the country any longer. So, she planned to move to Spain to practice her profession there. On November 24, 2019, she left Valencia, state of Carabobo, for the United States, from where she would be heading to Europe months later. That was the beginning of a journey that she would have to revise more than once.

Gregoria Swears that the Horse Knew What Was Going To Happen

Aug 07, 2024

In San Simón, an expanse of open ground located in the state of Bolívar, in southern Venezuela, Gregoria Zapata and Jesús Manuel Umbría grow peppers, beans, and corn. They also had three horses and one mare that they used to work the land and for transportation. But one day, when they woke up in the […]

Lo único que sobrevivió fue un ejemplar

The Only Thing that Survived Was a Copy of a Book

Aug 06, 2024

A pioneer in Venezuela in the use of immunohistochemistry —a method that allows for more accurate results in diagnostic pathology—, Dr. Jorge García Tamayo devoted six decades of his life to research and teaching. One day, he invited Elsie Picott, at the time a resident student of Universidad Central de Venezuela Anatomic Pathology Graduate Program, to join him in a research work. She has since considered him her mentor. Twenty years later, she stills asks him for advice, which he delivers, even from afar.

Taking Action for the Parishioners Instead of Just Worrying About Them

Aug 04, 2024

There is no official data available, but it is estimated that about seven thousand people in Venezuela are bitten by a snake each year. Aware of the nationwide shortage of snake antivenom, that is, the anti-venom treatment for snakebites, Priest Johnny Arias came up with the idea of creating an antivenom bank funded by his own community.

Your Theatrics Won’t Get You Out of Here

Aug 03, 2024

On April 15, 2020, residents of Churuguara town, a two-hour drive from Coro, state of Falcón, took to the streets to protest over gasoline shortages. They were repelled with tear gas. Edgar Flores, a 30-year-old lawyer and psychiatric patient, was among them. Several days later, law enforcement officials broke into his house and took him away.

Ultimately, I stopped Asking Myself All Those Questions

Aug 02, 2024

For years, Nora dedicated herself to giving private lessons in physics, chemistry, mathematics and English to the young people of her community in Carúpano, state of Sucre, including Zoila Hernández’s kids.

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