While Venezuela reels from its ongoing political and humanitarian crises, attacks against members of the press, and particularly women journalists, have become especially acute.

In a year when Latin America was swept with protests against gender-based violence from Mexico to Chile, the Encuentro de Mujeres que Luchan, organized by the Zapatista community, welcomed some 4,000 women to the Chiapaneco highlands to unite in transnational feminist solidarity and confront the global crisis of violence against women.