Ángel Páez

Journalist

Ángel Páez has extensive experience working in Peru as an investigative journalist on stories about corruption, drug trade, political violence, arms trade and other forms of organized crime. Páez started working at the daily newspaper La República in 1985. In 1990 he founded the Investigative Unit (Unidad de Investigación), a team of reporters which uncovered the corruption scandals surrounding the government of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000). A correspondent in Lima for the Argentinean newspaper Clarín and the Mexican magazine Proceso, Páez is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), a Washington-based organization that promotes global investigations.