Ana could not handle the great and constant changes involving her daily life. She ended suffering an adjustment disorder and an acute depression. Since her diagnosis, she has been resting, far from the school where she taught plastic arts and which became a hostile environment for her.
One November morning of 2015, one of the five children of Edgar Carpio and Eladia Guarisma borrowed a bicycle and rode away from his home located in San Felix, southern Venezuela. His plan was to begin a new life, but he never came back home. Witnesses saw police officers taking him away.
In the early hours of Friday February 22, Venezuelan soldiers arrived at the border with Brazil and opened fire on a group of Pemon who were preparing for the entrance of humanitarian aid. The resulting death of one woman and multiple injuries would be just the beginning of a weekend in which dozens of people were injured and others died…
After one of his own was murdered, a gang that imposes its form of law in a sector of San Felix, in the state of Bolivar, decided that Oscar, an officer of the Municipal Police of Caroní, could no longer live there. When he had the audacity to set foot in its streets, they killed him. And the entire family has been forced…
On February 12, 2014, Bassil Da Costa was killed during a demonstration against Nicolás Maduro’s government. Juancho Montoya –a leader of paramilitary groups known as colectivos– and Robert Redman completed the death toll of that day. The government blamed the opposition. But a group of investigative journalists…
The protagonist of this story lives in El Cedrito, a remote shantytown located in the vicinity of Mampote, in the state of Miranda. As a consequence of deficiencies in public transportation, this 8-year old boy has to ramble tortuously through many stops just to go to school. He is now on vacation, so he gets to spend his afternoons playing soccer.
Manuel Velásquez, pediatrician was not at peace knowing that, due to the overwhelming poverty that affects so many families in his native state of Monagas, many children required medical assistance. This was why, since 2011, he continued to offer free medical assistance in different areas of the state.
On May 18, 2017, a National Guard officer fired a tear gas bomb at point-blank range at the body of Oscar Navarrete. He was taken to a clinic showing no vital signs on admission, but he responded after the fourth resuscitation attempt. The doctors predicted that he would be left in a vegetative state, but his mother refused to accept the diagnosis.
Priest Vilson Jochem has lived with the indigenous people of Delta Amacuro since 2005. There, he tries to help the inhabitants of those caños [branches of the Orinoco river delta] to weather the harsh conditions in which they survive, which have been made worse by an almost total lack of supplies and medicines.
On January 20, 2018, a Taliban attack against the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul was reported, one that killed 18 people, most of them foreigners. The news did not go unnoticed in Venezuela: among the victims were Pablo Chiossone and Adelsis Ramos, two Venezuelan pilots who worked for the Afghan airline Kam Air.
