Ángel Sastre
Ángel Sastre is a reporter from Extremadura, Spain, who has worked in Latin America for 15 years, covering coups, deaths of dictators, natural disasters, drug trafficking and over 30 Presidential elections. He has reported from Brazilian favelas in Rio and Sao Paulo, and from the poorest neighborhoods in Caracas, Lima, Asuncion and Buenos Aires. Professionally 2010 was an intense year for Ángel who covered the Concepción earthquake, the elections in Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela and the rescue of the 33 miners in the Chilean mining accident. This event marked a milestone in his career, after spending exhausting days in the Atacama desert. In 2011 he continued working on his saga about the Elite Troops in the favelas in Rio, embedded with the BOPE and covered the Kaibiles of Guatemala, interviewing the survivors of indigenous massacres. He has reported the drama of those who live on waste in the garbage dumps in Nicaragua -La Chureca. He also explored the Amazon, in Iquitos, in search of pimps and victims of child prostitution. In Argentina, he portrayed political mafias and human trafficking. In addition, he reported from the prisons of El Salvador and the lives of 18th street gang members. He has investigated the trafficking of people migrating across the US-Mexico border and he reported from the train called "The Beast". He also covered the death of Hugo Chavez, the disarmament of the FARC and spent weeks with the ELN guerrillas. He has also reported from some conflicts, including Palestine, Syria -where he was kidnapped for a year in the hands of Al Qaeda-, Iraq, and Ukraine, from where he was deported. He traveled on the rescue ship Open Arms, to the shores of Libya. In Bangladesh he wrote and filmed about forced child marriages and Rohingya refugee camps. And his latest stop has been in Afghanistan as a witness to the injustices suffered by women under the Taliban regime.
