Oscar José Blanco Romero wasn’t dragged away by the river or the sea. His case is one of the four emblematic forced disappearances of the Vargas tragedy, the first disappearances of the chavista government
Twenty years after the landslides, it’s still hard to understand what survivors went through. This is the story of Ramón Díaz, the first mayor of Vargas, and his two lives: the one before the tragedy and the one afterwards.
Twenty years later, there are twenty open cases of children that went missing during the rescue operations of the landslides in Vargas, and they are believed to be alive.
Twenty years ago, the Northern Venezuelan coast suffered one of the worst disasters in the country’s history. But we’ll never know how many people we lost.
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