Óscar Martínez and Patricia Evangelista

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 organised 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.

This conversation takes places within the framework of Resident CCCB, an international residency program of the CCCB in collaboration with Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and supported by Fundació Privada MIR-PUIG.