Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
2 reviews$500 - $1500 / Day
Request QuoteNathalie Iriarte is a Bolivian journalist and has a Diploma in International Defense of Human Rights from the University of Zaragoza, Spain. Nathalie worked as a freelance for the past six years and that led her to travel almost all of Latin America researching on women's rights, migration, indigenous rights, and other cultural and human rights issues. Nathalie has interviewed characters such as Mario Vargas Llosa, Henrique Capriles, Gay Talese, Plinio Apuleyo, Estela de Carlotto, among others. Her texts, photographs and videos have been published in media outlets in Bolivia, Mexico, Spain, Guatemala, the United States and England, among other countries. She is a columnist for the Washington Post and works as a writer and video journalist with news outlets such as AJ+, Vice News, BBC, Channel 4 and others. She was a finalist in the 2015 Gabriel García Márquez Award, honorable mention in the 2014 Carmen Goes Award (Spain), first Mention in the 2014 Bolivian Chronicle Award and Honorable Mention 2015 SIP Award. She was a US Government Fellow in a Research journalism program in 2014 and is part of CONNECTAS, the largest collaborative journalism platform in the Americas. Nathalie currently resides in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and works as the general editor of Forbes magazine in Bolivia. She also teaches economic and investigative journalism workshops and is a teacher at the Master of Journalism of the Evangelical Bolivian University.
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Live from the conflict zone in Senkata Gasoline Plant taken by protestors from Evo Morales after he left the country in big social conflicts due the electoral fraude in the lastest elections that caused his resignation
THE WILD FIRES IN BOLIVIA LASTED AROUND TWO MONTHS AND WE WERE DOCUMENTING THE WORK OF VOLUNTEERS FIRE FIGHTERS DURING WEEKS TO SEE WHAT IT WAS TO WORK WITHOUT PROPER EQUIPMENT AND AGAINST THE WILL OF HELP OF THE GOVERNMENT WHO DENIED TO DECLARE NATIONAL DISASTER EVEN WHEN 5 MILLION HECTARES OF FOREST WERE BURN TO ASHES.
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I DID A 4 MONTHS INVESTIGATION TO PRODUCE THIS PIECE WICH IS PART OF A MULTIMEDIA PRODUCT. WE PROVED THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS VIOLATING LAWS WICH WERE MEANT TO PROTECT INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AND WE DISCOVER A CORRUPT NETWORK AROUND THE PUBLIC WORKERS WHO WERE OBLIGED BY LAW TO SPEAK NATIVE TONGUES BUT WERE BUYING THE CERTIFICATES INSTEAD. I WAS ALSO IN CHARGE OF THE FIELD PRODUCTION.
REINA WAS SENT TO JAIL WITHOUT PROOFS AND DIDN´T GET A TRANSLATOR TO DEFEND HERSELF IN HER LANGUAGE. SHE´S AN INDIGENOUS WOMAN WHO ONLY SPOKE QUECHUA AND DIDN´T UNDERSTAND SHE WAS ON TRIAL ACUSED OF THE MURDER OF HER HUSBAND. I FOLLOWED THIS STORY FOR YEARS AND I STILL NEED HELP TO FINISH THE DOCUMENTARY AND BRING REINA BACK TO HER COMMUNITY IN BOLIVIA AFTER HER NIGHTMARE AS A MIGRANT IN ARGENTINA
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