Jorge Benezra

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'We Are Watching Our People Die': The Human Toll at the Heart of Venezuela’s Crisis

In her cinder block home in Venezuela’s second city of Maracaibo, 14-year-old Ana Bravo puts her hand to her mouth to signal her hunger. She is waiting for her mother to cook up a plate...

By Jorge Benezra

'The Country Is Sinking': A Q&A With Venezuelan Opposition Leader Henrique Capriles

'I fear there will be an explosion in Venezuela and it will finish collapsing'

By Ioan Grillo/Caracas and Jorge Benezra/Caracas

Inside the Hell of Venezuelan Police Prisons

20,000 inmates are being kept in prisons designed for just 5,000

By Ioan Grillo/Caracas and Jorge Benezra/Caracas

Venezuela's Murder Epidemic Rages On Amid Protests

Meeting the killers of Caracas as opposition to President Nicolas Maduro brings Venezuela to the brink

By Ioan Grillo / Caracas and Jorge Benezra / Caracas

On the Inside: Venezuela's Most Dangerous Prison

Prisons are Venezuela’s shame: filthy, overcrowded and lawless. Many are run by inmates, who impose a brutal control on the chaos. An exclusive look behind the prison walls by Sebastián Liste.

By Jorge Benezra
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