Good news from Venezuela, and the archives that tell its story

Venezuela Entrelíneas means, roughly, “Venezuela between the lines”. Our motto, carried over from the foundation that started it all, is “Grandes líneas para una Venezuela mejor”: great lines for a better Venezuela. The site has two goals. The first is to tell the stories of people, schools, communities and organizations doing good things for the country. The second is to rescue, digitize and open to everyone a printed heritage that would otherwise be lost.

Please note: the site is written in Spanish. This page explains what you will find here; the articles and magazines themselves are published in their original language.

Where it comes from

The project grew out of Organización Gráficas Capriles, a family printing company founded in Caracas in 1992. From the start it believed that a business could succeed and, at the same time, help build a better society. So it began printing free educational material with the same quality of content, design and paper as any commercial job.

In 1996 Luis Felipe Capriles Lizarraga and María Denisse Fanianos de Capriles launched Leer Entrelíneas, a free monthly newspaper. In 2003 the work was formalized as the Fundación Entre Líneas, which also organized the gathering “Constructores de la Nueva Venezuela Participativa” (more than 600 attendees and over 40 Venezuelan NGOs) and a rosary campaign that handed out more than 200,000 copies between 2002 and 2004. Today Venezuela Entrelíneas returns as a digital outlet, with its doors open to anyone who wants to tell a story that inspires.

The archive

Leer Entrelíneas (since 1996)

A free newspaper about personal growth, family, work, civic responsibility, and social, cultural and religious life. It started with just 400 copies and, thirteen years later, volunteers were handing out 50,000 copies per issue in nine Venezuelan states: in public and private schools, neighborhoods, hospitals, prisons, churches and rehabilitation centers.

We are publishing the issues we have preserved one by one. Each issue has its own page with the cover, a summary, the full PDF and the individual articles. Browse Leer Entrelíneas →

Vértice (1962–1968)

Revista universitaria de ideas, artes y letras: a magazine of ideas, arts and letters made by Venezuelan university students. Its first issue came out in May 1962 and its last in June 1968, with print runs of 5,000 copies sold hand to hand in the corridors of the Universidad Central de Venezuela, the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, the Universidad de Carabobo, La Universidad del Zulia and the Universidad de Los Andes.

Its pages debated university reform and autonomy, scientific research, the place of women in higher education, democracy and student life, and published interviews with figures such as Rafael Caldera, Raúl Leoni and Arturo Uslar Pietri, alongside fiction, poetry, film and book reviews.

The complete collection is now online: all 48 issues, each with its cover, a summary in Spanish, the scanned PDF and every article transcribed so it can be read and searched. Browse Vértice →

How to use the archive

By issue: each publication page lists every issue in order. Open one to see its table of contents and download the original PDF.
By article: every text has its own page, with the author, section and page number of the original.
By author: the index of authors gathers everything each writer published across both collections.

So far the archive holds 1102 articles. For researchers, students and the Venezuelan diaspora, it is a window into how Venezuelans thought, argued and hoped across six decades.

Get involved

Do you know someone doing something good for Venezuela? Do you keep printed copies of Leer Entrelíneas or Vértice, or remember how one reached your hands? We would love to hear from you, in English or Spanish. See how to take part or write to us on X at @VzlaEntrelineas.