Informative newsletter

This newsletter is prepared within the framework of the Program to Support Initiatives of Civil Society Organizations and Human Rights Defenders, implemented by People In Need with the aim of strengthening civil society organizations (CSOs) that operate in favor of Human Rights (HR) in Venezuela.

VII EDITION 2021

«This publication has been produced with the financial support of the European Union. Its content is the sole responsibility of People In Need and does not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.

Last month one of the reporters of EL BUS TV traveled to his hometown in the Venezuelan llanos (plains), a small town between the states of Guárico and Anzoátegui called Pariaguán. Anibal took the opportunity to post some flip charts of the project downtown Pariguarán.

People wondered what it was all about. The center of Pariaguán is visited daily by more than four hundred people since the most important businesses and stores of the small town in the south of Anzoátegui are located there, on the border with the state of Guarico. So it was to be expected that more than one or dozens of people, instead, noticed those strange yellow and orange papers taped on walls a few blocks from each other. What is that?

The facade where the first flip chart was taped, the case of Linda Loaiza. A total boom. In less than an hour, the pieces of papers with numbers of hotlines for the assistance of gender violence victims were torn by female hands, of different ages and textures. Young people, older people, and adults passing by stopped to read what was there; the line to enter the store got even longer.

They did not stop making comments about it and that pattern of interest was repeated for several days with different faces and stories. Finally, the queue moved on and interest in the flipchart increased and renewed. People from the opposite street approached and whispered to each other, perhaps the only thing that is softly spoken in this town full of shouting, rooster fights, and daytime parties.

Translation by: Pascual Díaz