August • 2024
Amazing! Very professional and talented.
Hector E.
Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia
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I am a freelance international reporter, with ten years of experience in written stories, photography, and video reporting. I have covered war, 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/ You can see my video work by clicking this link: https://www.youtube.com/@h3ct0r3s 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.
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Produced for Euronews
ELN Colombia guerrilla camp
Travelled deep into the Colombian Chocó rainforest, to reach and record a National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional) camp.
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Produced for Cuerdos de Atar
FARC Disidents hideout
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.
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Battle for the Simón Bolívar bridge
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.
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The opprobrium cemetery in the Peruvian Amazon
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.
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Despite FARC disarmament, violence continues in Colombia's abandoned zones Access to the comments
Poor and isolated: Quibdó, in the northeast of Colombia, is one of the regions most affected by the 52-year-conflict between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the government. One year after the peace agreement, war still remains for local communities in the capital of the Department of Choco. Despite FARC's disarmament last June, Diomedes Isarama fled in October when his son, Aulio, an indigenous leader, was killed. Another guerrilla, from the National Liberation Army, ended his life. " We were frightened because they killed our son. People here say they are going to kill everyone. That is what we hear." said Diomedes Isarama. The ELN admitted it was an individual error and apologised, but the Government considers it a violation of the truce signed last October that's due to be renewed in January 2018. All Diomedes family went into exile after Aulio’s killing.... "We survive, we have accommodation, but sometimes we eat only once a day." Mr Isarama said. The re emergence of violence in the zones abandoned by FARC are estimated to have sparked 55.000 forced displacements in 2017. 10.000 where in Chocó alone, where 80% of the population are poor. New and established guerrilla groups, criminal gangs and paramilitary organisations have all sought to fill the void left by FARC since it laid down its arms. These groups are now pushing into regions that the FARC formerly held andurban violence is forcing more and more people into exile. "They told me that they were not threatening me, but I realised that one of the neighbourhood boys was going to end my life." said Natalia Machado. "They knocked on my door. And I could hear them saying that if they'd caught me - they would have beaten me." The only reason she fought to survive was to prevent her son from being recruited. "It is hard because you always see boys selling drugs, standing in the corners. Cashing extortions." said Natalia Machado. "Everything is real. It is very difficult because there are invisible barriers that you cannot cross because if you do, you risk your life." Natalia left her job and now fights to maintain a stable life for her son. " Economically I am struggling. We are in a very vulnerable situation. If we have breakfast we do not have lunch. If we have lunch we do not have dinner. One meal a day. That’s our situation." Whilst the level of violence has generally gone down, following the Colombian Peace Pact, killings are more targeted. Social activists as well as a number of indigenous people have been the victims these murders. The UN say at least 80 leaders were killed last year, with a disproportionately high amount in areas where the FARC had been the most active.
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Produced for Cuerdos de Atar
In the Nicaraguan trenches
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.
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