In 2001, Linda Lopez was kidnapped and held for almost four months in a Caracas apartment, where she was repeatedly raped and tortured. Now, she has released a book about her experience and her years-long battle to bring the case to trial in a system that she says still fails Venezuelan women. By Vivian Sequera and Mircely Guanipa. Full Text -> NationalPost

The Mining Arc isn’t only an environmental disaster in Venezuela’s most biodiverse region, where most of the freshwater should be produced. Not only is it helping the spread of malaria across the country and bringing conflict, violence, disease and exploitation to Indigenous communities, the Mining Arc is also setting patterns of sexual and labor subjugation on Venezuelan girls, teenagers, and women which can only be referred to as slavery. By Kaoru Yonekura. Full Text -> CaracasChronicles

A Venezuelan writer, poet, and essayist who confessed on Instagram to statutory rape was found dead on Thursday after falling nine stories in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires, where he had been living, according to local media. Full Text -> Reuters