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Fusion to Host Screening of #SOSVenezuela at the University of Miami on Wednesday, March 26

On Wednesday, March 26 Fusion’s Mariana Atencio (@MarianaAtencio) will host a screening of her Fusion primetime news special #SOSVenezuela at the University of Miami.  #SOSVenezuela takes viewerson a journey through the streets of Venezuela with Atencio providing a personal look at the 10 days that shook the Latin American country. Fusion will host a panel of guests to engage in a conversation with students in South Florida about the ongoing crisis in Venezuela – including model and activist Eglantina Zingg (@EglantinaZingg), Univision anchorRodner Figueroa (@RodnerFigueroa), comedian George Harris (@ElGeorgeHarris), Venezuelan StoryHunters filmmaker Carlos Beltran, President of Univen Gabriela Contreras and the student who crowd-sourced a Venezuelan mini doc, Arianne Alcorta (@ArianneAlcorta).

It’s been a month and a half since the first student protesters died in Venezuela and the number dead continues to grow. Young Venezuelans are speaking out against the high inflation and rampant violence they have seen under President Nicolas Maduro’s administration. Students have continued to protest in the streets despite a security crackdown, a local media blackout, and attempts by the government to censor the web and the airwaves.  More on the Fusion special #SOSVenezuela airing Wednesday, March 26 at 10:00 p.m., ET on Fusion here: http://bit.ly/1hhD0Su.

More on Fusion’s Venezuela Coverage Here

Mariana Atencio is a Peabody Award winning journalist, who was born and raised in Venezuela. She joined Fusion as a co-host of “Fusion LIVE” from Univision News in 2013, where she covered Hugo Chavez’s death along with previous presidential campaigns in Venezuela. She received a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media for her documentary “Pressured: Freedom of the Press” (“PRESSionados”). She has a B.S. in Communications from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas and a Master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University.

Wednesday, March 24, 2014
What:     Fusion’s Special #SOSVenezuela Screening
Where:   University of Miami
              Shoma Hall
              5100 Brunson Drive  Coral Gables, FL 33146
When:    8:30 p.m., ET

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Fusion Announces Primetime News Special #SOSVenezuela

Fusion Special on Continuing Crisis in Venezuela Hosted by Mariana Atencio to Air Wednesday, March 26 at 10:00 p.m., ET on Fusion

Fusion continues its in-depth coverage of the crisis in Venezuela with a primetime news special, #SOSVenezuela, airing Wednesday, March 26 at 10:00 p.m., ET on Fusion. Fusion’s Mariana Atencio, who reported from Caracas last month, will take viewers on a journey through the streets of Venezuela with a personal look at 10 days that shook the country. Atencio also speaks to Venezuelan assemblywoman Maria Corina Machado, one of the most high profile leaders of the opposition. Machado was recently stripped her of parliamentary immunity and has been threatened by the Maduro administration with charges of terrorism and treason.

Watch: Persecuted Venezuelan Lawmaker: Venezuela’s Situation is Dangerous for International Democracy

It’s been a month and a half since the first student protesters died in Venezuela and the number dead continues to grow. Young Venezuelans are speaking out against the high inflation and rampant violence they have seen under President Nicolas Maduro’s administration. Students have continued to protest in the streets despite a security crackdown, a local media blackout, and attempts by the government to censor the web and the airwaves.

More on Fusion’s Venezuela Coverage Here

The protests in Ukraine and the Russian intervention that followed have monopolized American media coverage while the events on this side of the globe in Venezuela have received only a fraction of the attention by most outlets. Fusion’s Jorge Ramos has spoken out about the events in Venezuela noting the silence of the media and international community – “A president who allows students to be killed has lost any legitimacy as a leader, but unfortunately Maduro has a powerful accomplice on the international stage: silence,” he said.

Mariana Atencio is a Peabody Award winning journalist, who was born and raised in Venezuela. She joined Fusion as a co-host of “Fusion LIVE” from Univision News in 2013, where she covered Hugo Chavez’s death along with previous presidential campaigns in Venezuela. She received a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media for her documentary “Pressured: Freedom of the Press” (“PRESSionados”). She has a B.S. in Communications from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas and a Master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University.

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Fusion’s Mariana Atencio Talks About Venezuela Protests on NPR

Fusion’s Mariana Atencio spoke with NPR’s David Brancaccio, who hosts “Marketplace Morning Report” weekday mornings, about the deadly protests occurring in Venezuela.  Listen below – 

She notes that the protesters in Venezuela are mainly middle-class citizens and students, pointing to economics as the driving motivator of the protests – “

The majority of the shelves are empty in supermarkets, in pharmacies. [There are] long lines for people to buy flour, deodorant, butter, shaving razors, toilet paper. It’s all that people talk about. People will run in a sprint when they hear that flour has come to a certain supermarket.”

Mariana Atencio is a Peabody Award winning journalist, who was born and raised in Venezuela. She joined Fusion as a co-host of “The Morning Show” from Univision News in 2013, where she covered Hugo Chavez’s death along with previous presidential campaigns in Venezuela. She has a B.S. in Communications from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas and a Master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University.