Raúl Peñaranda
Bolivian journalist and political analyst
Raúl Peñaranda Undurraga (born 1966) is a Bolivian journalist and political analyst.
Career
In 2015 Peñaranda obtained the Maria Moors Cabot for outstanding reporting in Latin America prize, granted by Columbia University. The jury said that he "is one of the most accomplished journalists in Bolivia today" and that "his strong stance against abuse of power and media concentration by the Morales regime, particularly in his latest book "Control Remoto," earned him relentless persecution by the government, which called him a traitor and a spy.
He was the first Bolivian to obtain a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University in 2007. As a fellow, he studied two academic semesters focusing on topics related to development, democracy and political conflict.
Peñaranda is a former Associated Press and ANSA correspondent in his country and has also worked as a freelance contributor for the Los Angeles Times and a number of Latin American newspapers. Since August 2008, he has written for El Universo, the biggest Ecuadorean daily, and published a column for La Prensa, a Bolivian newspaper. He has worked at several Bolivian dailies: He was managing editor of Última Hora, opinion editor and columnist of La Razón and director and founder of three local newspapers: La Época, Nueva Economía and Página Siete.
He has published several books related to journalism and politics. He holds a degree in social communication (Universidad Católica Boliviana) and is a graduate in advanced journalism (Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar).
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