Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia
$100 - $99000 / Day
I am a freelance international reporter, with ten years of experience in written stories, photography, and video reporting. I have covered riots, political, economic and social crises, immigration issues, guerrillas, and elections in some thirty countries. I have six years of experience in Latin America. I have done reports in all the countries of continental America, from the US to Argentina, including Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua and Bolivia, as well as in some Caribbean islands, including Cuba. Previously I worked in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans, for three years. You can see part of my work on this web page: https://hectorestepa.wordpress.com/ This link, especially, for video reports: https://hectorestepa.wordpress.com/videos/ I am a multitasking reporter. I produce my own reports, I do the photographs, the videos for TV, and the written reports. I speak Spanish (native), English and Portuguese.
Produced for Euronews
Travelled deep into the Colombian Chocó rainforest, to reach and record a National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional) camp.
Produced for Cuerdos de Atar
I traveled to Tumaco, Nariño, one of the most dangerous places in Colombia, to report how the peace process with FARC guerrilla was developing in 2017. I visit a retired Farc members campent, and then I went into the jungle to meed a hideout with former Farc members that dont recognize the peace process and continued fighting against the Colombian army and other irregular groups.
Produced for Cuerdos de Atar
In april 2018, massive demonstrations start in Nicaragua against Daniel Ortega government. Dozens die in the streets of the country. A group of students keep one Managua university occupied and fight authorities. I went there to report about their fight.
Produced for Euronews
Report filmed on Cucuta, Colombia, the February the 23rd 2019. Venezuelan opposition wanted to bring humanitarian aid through the border bridge between that country and Colombia. A battle start there with the Venezuelan police and military. Four people die. Hundreds are injured.
Produced for Euronews
Dozens was burried in this mass grave in the outskirts of the Peruvian Amazon town known as Iquitos without their relatives knowing during the Covid 19 crisis. They doesn't know where their loved ones are burried and how will them recover their bodies.
Produced for Cuerdos de Atar
I traveled to Veracruz and Mexico City to investigate how relatives of the disappeared search for their loved ones. In Mexico there are more than 50,000 missing persons.
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