About me

As a child in Montevideo, Uruguay, my fingers were often ink-tainted. I used to go through my grandfather’s newspapers and write short sentences on the blank side of used typewritten pages. My grandma wanted me to be President, but I guess I dreamed of being a writer, or some kind of adventurer or detective, or maybe a journalist. After some years of writing around on school projects, at the age of seventeen I had my first newsroom experience, covering a football game of the local third division league every Sunday for a newspaper.

After school, I enrolled in Communications and Journalism studies, hoping to one day be an investigative reporter or a news correspondent somewhere. One of my university teachers saw some qualities in me and, while I was wrapping up with my studies, he recommended me to the editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Búsqueda, the most relevant Uruguayan print media outlet, where I started working as a reporter at age twenty-three. My first task was to cover a looming conflict between Uruguay and Argentina around two paper pulp mills that were being planned at the country’s border. The issue quickly escalated and I ended up covering blockades at a binational bridge under the sun, a massive rally by then-President Néstor Kirchner, and eventually the reading of a decision at the International Court in The Hague.

In my time as a reporter I also covered a political campaign for the Presidency, I followed the local and the national Parliament, as well as the doings of the Government and the Opposition. I traveled across the country and abroad. Later, I was promoted to section editor, just after President José “Pepe” Mujica had taken office. During his government, Uruguay was under the international news spotlight, in particular as the country became the first in the world to fully legalize cannabis. I worked as local producer and fixer for a VICE documentary about the topic, including an extensive interview with Mujica. The President was also one of the interviewees for the book I co-authored about the legalization, “Marihuana oficial”, written alongside my colleague Guillermo Draper. A journalistic account of the political and social process, the book won the 2018 Bartolomé Hidalgo award in a non-fiction category.

In 2015, I decided to move to Berlin, Germany, and started a new chapter. After working for a while as a freelance correspondent and commentator on different radio and television outlets, I took a job at the international news agency Ruptly, where I coordinated the coverage of breaking news, the acquisition of relevant content, including user-generated images, as well as open-source verification, among other many tasks. In 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, I resigned from the agency and focused on my personal projects.

When I’m not surfing the waves of the news world, I am busy parenting at home, in trains and at playgrounds, reading as much as I can, writing fiction, or trying not to annoy my neighbors with my instruments and records.

With almost two decades worth of journalistic experience, having worked with teams all the way from legacy print to digital media, I’m constantly on the look for new challenges and opportunities to serve audiences, always with alert eyes and ink-tainted hands.