Our Authors

Meet the journalists and storytellers behind Caracas Voice.

La Madrina

La Madrina

Publisher

Publisher of CaracasVoice. She writes about health, aging, beauty, sex, money, relationships, and how to live well without apology.

Rafael Cortez

Rafael Cortez

Bio-Optimize

He writes about peptides, longevity, regenerative medicine, GLP-1 drugs, and emerging treatments that could change how people feel, recover, and age.

Lucia Mendoza

Lucia Mendoza

Savage Paradise

She writes about luxury, travel, fashion, beauty, nightlife, celebrity, and the people who make glamorous lives interesting.

Valentina Velez

Valentina Velez

She writes about inequality, labor, taxation, public investment, corporate power, billionaire wealth, and the systems that decide who benefits from economic growth.

Gabriel Rojas

Gabriel Rojas

Imperialists

He writes about elections, corruption, protests, coups, sanctions, foreign intervention, and the machinery of political power.

Mateo Serrano

Mateo Serrano

Underworld

He writes about cartels, trafficking, black markets, intelligence, corruption, and the respectable institutions that keep the underworld functioning.

Martin Alvarez

Martin Alvarez

History's Teeth

He writes about dictators, revolutions, political violence, vanished people, compromised heroes, and the history governments prefer to remember differently.

Tomás Valdivia

He writes about cartels, trafficking, black markets, intelligence, corruption, and the respectable institutions that keep the underworld functioning.