Gustavo Gorriti currently a columnist with Caretas magazine in Lima, Peru, has worked for many years covering drug trafficking and the Shining Path insurgency. He has investigated a wide ranging array of journalistic cases, from corruption in the banking sector in Panama, to the same phenomenon in the Armed Forces and the Police in Peru.

Gorriti began his career in the early 1980s, working with Caretas magazine. He was associate executive editor with Panama’s La Prensa from 1996 to 2001. Later, he was director and anchor in the “Periodistas” weekly TV journalistic program in Frecuencia Latina TV, in Peru, and co-director of La República newspaper in Lima, among other jobs.

He was the correspondent for Spain’s El País from 1989 until 1992, and published during the late 1980s and 1990s contributions in such papers and magazines as The New Republic, The New York Times, the Atlantic, the L. A. Times, among others.

The author of “Sendero”, and other books, Gorriti was awarded the International Press Freedom Award; the LASA Media Award; the Premio Rey de España; the Maria Moors Cabot Award, among others.  He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, a senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment, among other fellowships and appointments. Until December 2008 he was the President of the Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS).

Gustavo Gorriti lives in Lima, Peru.