Eloísa Ocando-Thomas

Eloísa Ocando-Thomas is a global historian specializing in Latin America, currently associated with the University of Warwick. With her family residing in Caracas, she has been vocal about the socio-economic challenges facing Venezuela, especially in the wake of natural disasters like the recent earthquake. Ocando-Thomas has highlighted the dire conditions many Venezuelans face, including high poverty rates and the lack of insurance for damaged homes, predicting that the earthquake will exacerbate migration issues as people struggle to rebuild their lives.