Rossana Ordóñez

Ordoñez studied a Ph.D. in political science.^[1] She was a reporter for El Nacional; in the 1980s she worked on the television program "Lo de Hoy es Noticia" on Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), was a broadcaster for GRD New York, worked as an international editor and was a professor at Universidad Santa María, in Caracas.^[1][2][3][4] She edited the magazines Bohemia and Momento afterwards.^[1][5] She also served as secretary general of the National College of Journalists, Caracas chapter, and of the Institute of Social Security for Journalists (IPSP).^[2][5]

In 2021, the media and Rossana's colleagues began a campaign to raise funds to pay a treatment for pancreatic, renal and liver problems she was suffering. On 1 August 2021, the secretary of the National College of Journalists, Delvalle Canelón, confirmed Ordóñez's death.^[1][2]

She died of pancreatic cancer. She was seventy years old at the time of her death.^[6]