Writing

My reporting puts people, communities and their experiences first.

I seek out stories about environment or human rights issues, and where they intertwine, and try to put the people and communities most affected by these issues at the heart of the story.

In 2021, I received a grant from the local TOA-GK (Todos los Ojos en la Amazonia) for In-depth Journalism in the Amazon, and in 2018 was a recipient of the Casa Socio-Environmental Fund for environmental reporting.

Some select publications:

  • Inside Colombia’s “Guantanamo Bay”: A Human Rights Nightmare (teleSUR English & Truthout)

    BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – Ariz Carrillo spent two years and five months locked behind bars at one of Colombia’s maximum security prisons, La Tramacua ­– a place so renown for its human rights abuses that it has been dubbed “the Guantanamo of Colombia”. “For no reason, only because I was a political prisoner. They tortured me…

  • ‘Plan Colombia’ Has Been a Nightmare for Women (teleSUR English & Truthout)

    QUITO, ECUADOR – Six women were raped every hour in Colombia during the first nine years of Plan Colombia. That figure was taken from a joint survey done by women’s rights organizations, which include Oxfam and other Colombian based groups. The study also revealed that some 489,678 women were victims of some type of sexual…

  • ‘You Can’t be Scared of Death There’ Life as a Colombian Refugee (teleSUR English & Truthout)

    QUITO, ECUADOR – Keli did not leave Colombia voluntarily. Neither did Luis. And neither one of them grew up thinking they would one day be labelled a refugee. The two of them fled very different situations of violence in Colombia, what together epitomize the complexities of the ongoing war in the country. Keli – which…

  • A Life Behind Bars (teleSUR English & TruthOut)

    “An inmate at the Michigan department of corrections, Muskegon correctional facility. If you feel you’re being victimized or exploited by this prisoner, please contact GTL customer service at 855 466 2832. To accept this call press 0. This call is from a corrections facility and is subject to monitoring and recording. Thank you for using…

  • Uncertain fate for abandoned maximum security prison (Zoomin TV)

    QUITO, ECUADOR – Built in 1875, Ecuador’s maximum security prison Garcia Moreno, closed in September 2014 due to human rights violations. From that moment on, the haunting prison has been abandoned, revealing the past.