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Anna, what's it like to be a journalist in Caracas right now?

Well, right now it's extremely complicated.

So basically what I'm feeling is for the first time in my over 15 years covering the country.

I am genuinely afraid that something might happen to me if I keep reporting as I am right now.

Anna Vanessa Herrera is an investigative reporter for the Washington Post living in Caracas, Venezuela.

She was born and raised there, and she says, ever since Venezuelans went to the polls on

July 28th to vote in a presidential election, the country has been in crisis.

That's saying something for people who have lived under the authoritarian regime of

Nicholas Maduro for the last decade. For the first time we have and

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