Diego Cazar Baquero

Director and general editor of La Barra Espaciadora

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Diego Cazar Baquero (Quito, 1977) is a journalist, visual anthropologist, professor, and singer. He is the director and general editor of the digital magazine La Barra Espaciadora and a co-founding member of the Fundación Periodistas Sin Cadenas. He received the Jorge Mantilla Ortega National Award in 2019 and 2022. He was a finalist for the Gabo Award in 2019 with the investigation "Frontera Cautiva" (Captive Border), conducted by some twenty journalists from three countries, and a semifinalist for the same Gabo Award call for his series of reports "Abacá: esclavitud moderna en los campos de Ecuador" (Abacá: Modern Slavery in the Fields of Ecuador). He is a recipient of the 2021 Rainforest Journalism Fund fellowship from the Pulitzer Center. He is the author of the book Colateral (Tizarrón Editores, 2022), a journalistic chronicle about the case of Swedish programmer Ola Bini, prosecuted by the Ecuadorian State. He has edited the journalism books De a pie (Doble Rostro Editores, 2015), El otro portal (Doble Rostro Editores, 2016), and Cuarentena. Los encantamientos de la democracia en Ecuador (El Conejo, 2019).

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Diego Cazar Baquero

Director and general editor of La Barra Espaciadora

Diego Cazar Baquero (Quito, 1977) is a journalist, visual anthropologist, professor, and singer. He is the director and general editor of the digital magazine La Barra Espaciadora and a co-founding member of the Fundación Periodistas Sin Cadenas. He received the Jorge Mantilla Ortega National Award in 2019 and 2022. He was a finalist for the Gabo Award in 2019 with the investigation "Frontera Cautiva" (Captive Border), conducted by some twenty journalists from three countries, and a semifinalist for the same Gabo Award call for his series of reports "Abacá: esclavitud moderna en los campos de Ecuador" (Abacá: Modern Slavery in the Fields of Ecuador). He is a recipient of the 2021 Rainforest Journalism Fund fellowship from the Pulitzer Center. He is the author of the book Colateral (Tizarrón Editores, 2022), a journalistic chronicle about the case of Swedish programmer Ola Bini, prosecuted by the Ecuadorian State. He has edited the journalism books De a pie (Doble Rostro Editores, 2015), El otro portal (Doble Rostro Editores, 2016), and Cuarentena. Los encantamientos de la democracia en Ecuador (El Conejo, 2019).