Unpleasant Facts: Reporting on Violence

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Óscar Martínez is an award-winning Salvadoran investigative journalist and chief editor of the Latin American newspaper elfaro.net. He writes about migration, violence and organized crime in Central America, and is author of several books, including The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail (Verso Books, 2013) and Los muertos y el periodista (The Dead and the Journalist, Anagrama, 2022). Journalism, he once said, is the attempt to make the important interesting. He is currently reporting on corruption, abuses and violence in El Salvador under the present Nayib Bukele government.

His conversation with Patricia Evangelista will explore the challenges of reporting on corruption and violence in hostile conditions, and the role of modern journalism. They will also discuss the craft of writing itself: the compulsions, the choices, the hazards, the responsibilities and occasionally, the saving graces.

Event will be held in Spanish, Catalan and English with simultaneous translation from English to Catalan and Spanish.

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