Venezuela’s Last Chavistas
Support for Chavismo, the leftist ideology of the former president Hugo Chávez and his successor, Nicolás Maduro, is waning.
By Julie Turkewitz and Alejandro Cegarra
I cover Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. Most recently I have been focused on migration, specifically the record number of people making the trek through a dangerous jungle called the Darién in an effort to make it to the United States. With my photographer colleague Federico Rios I have crossed this jungle twice, documenting the journey for The Times.
I have been working for The Times in South America since 2019, writing often about the effects of an ongoing economic and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. In particular, my work has focused on the way this crisis has stripped women of access to contraceptives and meaningful care during pregnancy. Prior to moving to Colombia, I was a national reporter, covering the Rocky Mountain region of the U.S., based in Denver. I often wrote about indigenous voter rights, public lands, gun culture and the opioid crisis. I began my career with The Times in 2012 in New York, where I was a freelancer, reporting on breaking news around the city. I also wrote about the city’s immigrant communities and worked as a Spanish-speaking reporter on a major investigation into the city’s nail salon industry. I studied journalism at the University of North Carolina, and I was born in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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