Book I · EN
Book II · EN
Book III · EN
Literary universe · Broke in Heels
Some jobs pay a salary. Some women hold up a country.
What happens when the people holding up the institutions
can barely hold up their own lives?
Two women. One country. The certainty that resisting is still worth it.
Book I · EN
Book II · EN
Book III · EN
One same question
Alejandra Valdez manages million-dollar budgets while fighting to feed her family. Valentina Rojas runs special projects while facing a corruption network that diverts resources meant for those who need them most.
Apart, they both resist. Together, they become a threat to a system built on fear, silence, and the abuse of power.
Countries aren't held up by speeches.
They're held up by women.
That's why Venezuela has a woman's name.
The complete trilogy
Book I
The battle against invisible poverty
"Some jobs pay a salary. Others hold up a life."
Alejandra Valdez runs the Planning and Budget Office of a public agency. Every day she manages millions that will never be hers. Every night she comes home to a house where eight people depend on a salary that no longer stretches far enough, while she endures the harassment of Tomás Andrade, a superior who has learned to turn need into control. When she meets Ramón Vásquez, a man of integrity, she begins to discover that true poverty isn't always measured in money. Because there are poverties that never show up in the statistics.
Learn moreBook II
The battle against corruption
"Truth never asks how much it costs to tell it."
Valentina Rojas's Volkswagen Beetle spits smoke and refuses to start — the perfect mirror of her life. Director of Special Projects in a state government, she supports eight people while enduring the harassment of her boss, Javier Ordóñez. When he orders her to alter a bid that steals funds from a children's oncology institute, she realizes they're no longer trying to break her: they want to make her complicit. Her only ally is Daniel Vásquez. Because true courage isn't about beating the system — it's about refusing to become part of it.
Learn moreBook III
The battle to rebuild
"They didn't ask for power. They built it."
Both women carry the same impossible arithmetic: salaries that vanish before the month is out, bosses who demand complicity, and a question no one should have to ask — how much is your dignity worth when everything has a price? When their paths cross at the Vásquez family home, Alejandra and Valentina realize their strength was never in resisting alone. Because countries aren't held up by governments or institutions alone. They're held up by the people who get up again every morning. Maybe that's why Venezuela has a woman's name.
Learn moreThe narrative arc
These aren't three separate novels. They're three acts of the same story: from survival, to resistance, to rebuilding.
Book I · Dignity
The battle against invisible poverty.
A director. A salary that never stretched far enough.
Book II · Truth
The battle against corruption.
An investigator. A file. A truth too costly to tell.
Book III · Hope
The battle to rebuild.
Two women. One country. The certainty that resisting is worth it.
Thematic universe
J. G. Varela
Writer · Venezuela
The author
Writer · Editorial VARCAR
"There are poverties that never show up in the statistics."
Lawyer, programmer, and editor. J. G. Varela writes about power, bureaucracy, and resistance from the Venezuelan diaspora, blending documentary rigor with the narrative tension of an institutional thriller.
In Broke in Heels, he portrays professionals who hold up public institutions while fighting to hold up their own lives — stories built from firsthand knowledge of how power and corruption operate from the inside.
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