Mabel Sarmiento is an UCAB-trained journalist with more than 20 years' experience covering community news, the environment, health, education and infrastructure.
Primero Justicia failed to collect enough signatures to retain official party status last weekend. Activists were trying to recover from those days, but last night the CNE said they wouldn't get a second chance.
A Metro employee was fired because he complained on social media his salary wasn’t enough to buy detergent so he could wash his uniform. Others don’t show up for work, others quit to hawk coffee out of a thermos. Are we nearing the end of the Metro?
Looting and social conflict were endemic in 2017, and 2018 looks to be even more conflict-ridden. The government's attempt to let off steam by overseeing “legal looting” can barely contain people's desperation.
The New Year's Eve celebration put up by chavista mayor Erika Farías failed to fill up Caracas's smallish Plaza Bolívar. A few people turned up to dance, to forget hunger and deprivation for a while. Even that was too much to ask.
Sundde did it again. For the fourth year in a row, it went through one of Caracas’ main commercial areas, making shopkeepers do business at a loss. This time, many stores are going under.
The monetary aggregates and statistics mean nothing to Carolina. All she knows is that when the time comes to buy vegetables, the idea of buying a whole kilo of something is an extravagance she can't afford.
When vacation rolls around, the last thing a kid wants to do is have to go back to school. But in Venezuela, for many school is the only place they can get a solid meal. In this special report, we highlight a plan by the Miranda state government to use state schools to feed hungry kids during their school break.
Cronica.Uno's Mabel Sarmiento Garmendia and Yohana Marra on how hunger protests escalated into a day of violence and mayhem in the Western Caracas neighborhood of La Vega on Friday.
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