But volleyball was pure torture to me because I have always been clumsy. My ankles seemed to be made out of rubber and I couldn’t stand straight on my feet without them bending. That was also the case with my hands. en.lavidadenos.com/i-was-no-mutan…

They invited him to follow in their footsteps. They told him that emigrating was not easy but that it was well worth the effort. They told him that if he left, he could help more from abroad, if that was what worried him. He accepted the invitation. en.lavidadenos.com/those-were-not…

Thirty people were traveling from Falcon to Curacao, in a speedboat with capacity for 15, which capsized in an area of turbulent waters. Among them were the husbands of two sisters from La Vela who know well the meaning of illegally cross. By Eva Riera en.lavidadenos.com/en/when-hope-g…

Nereida does not imagine life without Oliver yet. She clings to the hope that he came out alive from the wreck of the boat in which he was traveling to Curacao, along with 29 other people, the early hours of January 10. This is how she welcomed 2018. en.lavidadenos.com/when-hope-gets…

The fisherman Pedro Marín had just been shrouded in thick darkness, in the middle of the sea, most of his body underwater. He was near the coast of Cumaná, in the state of Sucre, east of Venezuela, at the mercy of the waves that were hitting him hard. en.lavidadenos.com/to-be-born-tim…

Larry Yair López Medina was a security guard at the Dr. Ernesto Paolini Hospital in San Juan de Colón, state of Táchira. On Friday, January 18, 2019, he started his shift one hour earlier than usual. He was there, but his mind was elsewhere. en.lavidadenos.com/exactly-the-ti…

Carmen was by his side, covering him with fresh clothes. And then Oscar looked at her. Not exaggeratedly, not as a reflex of his eyelids. He looked at her deliberately. He looked for her with his eyes. He looked directly at her. en.lavidadenos.com/en/oscar-navar…

“Mom, I’m happy. Mamaíta came and hugged me.” Although she could not possibly have memories of her, she always says that she sees Mamaíta, as she calls Mary Lía, my older sister, and that she talks to her. en.lavidadenos.com/fabiana-still-…

Between these two results, there’s a missing link: the witnesses from the Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV)—Maduro’s party—and its allies, who also had copies of the tally sheets in their possession. #LaHoraDeVenezuela en.lavidadenos.com/the-missing-li…

Eliana Lucena can now talk about it without bursting into tears. These days, she can do it like so, composedly, sitting next to her husband Yosender Gimenez and her daughters Camila and Anarella, the two she has left. She does not cry that much anymore. en.lavidadenos.com/they-are-the-o…

I had witnessed my fair share of newsworthy events from my bedroom window. In 2014, I saw how the crackdown on repression gradually intensified. en.lavidadenos.com/the-true-value…

My grandfather was a Spaniard who arrived in Venezuela in search of opportunities and fell in love with this country. He said that his heart was spread over several countries, but that he was deep-rooted here. en.lavidadenos.com/when-the-twent…

She looked worried and I was too sore to tell her everything was okay, so I settled for a half smile and a thumbs-up. After that day, our lives changed. en.lavidadenos.com/en/the-surgery…

Chepi, as the villagers affectionately call Gregoria, thought the horse was crying because he thought they were leaving him behind. And she says so firmly convinced that animals, especially horses, can sense the good and bad things. en.lavidadenos.com/gregoria-swear…

She is in her late thirties. She just had a hysterectomy. From one moment to another, barely seven weeks away, she was ripped off her uterus and her daughter. All the flesh regarding Daniela de Jesus Salomón Machado had been ripped off from her body. en.lavidadenos.com/the-two-wounds…

María Laura 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. Read more: en.lavidadenos.com/en/that-voice-…

They invited him to follow in their footsteps. They told him that emigrating was not easy but that it was well worth the effort. They told him that if he left, he could help more from abroad, if that was what worried him. He accepted the invitation.  en.lavidadenos.com/those-were-not…

Jickson was released under precautionary measures. They imposed a presentation regime every 30 days and his mother. They charged him, as well as the other detainees, with the charges of looting, resistance to authority and obstruction of public roads. en.lavidadenos.com/en/he-get-to-k…

The news came to Nereida’s ears like all the bad news, out of the blue and when it was known by others. It was 10AM of Wednesday. His father called his sister. He had learned early, but wanted to confirm the bad news and then felt encouraged to share it. en.lavidadenos.com/en/when-hope-g…

#AHORA | Así recibimos a Rory en el terminal La Bandera, luego de su excarcelación este #04Feb. Celebramos que esté de regreso a su casa, de donde nunca debió ser sacado. Nos faltan 5 periodistas que siguen encarcelados.