Fellows & Editors
Eva Sanchis
- Trip:
- Fellows Fall 2006
- Affiliation:
- El Diario-La Prensa
- Country:
- Honduras
- Year:
- 2006
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Eva Sanchis is the metro editor for El Diario-La Prensa. Earlier, she was the paper's City Hall bureau reporter and covered the 2005 mayoral election in New York City and the Democratic and Republican national conventions. She has also covered immigration for El Diario, the nation oldest Spanish-language daily newspaper. In 2004, she wrote an award-winning series on human rights abuses in New Jersey county jails that prompted a change in federal detention standards. She has been an adjunct professor at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. Before coming to El Diario in 2002, she worked for three years for Spanish newspapers covering politics and social issues. She was an intern for CNN’s "American Morning" with Paula Zahn and "Greenfield at Large." She graduated from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1995 with a B.A. in Journalism. She also has a M.A. in Journalism and Latin American & Caribbean Studies from New York University.
Stories
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Video: Bosques de Honduras en guerra (War in the Honduran forests)
In Fall 2006, International Reporting Project Fellow Eva Sanchis traveled to Olancha, Honduras, the scene of serious social conflict, occasionally armed, pitting poor peasants and indigenous groups against illegal loggers. (Report in Spanish)
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Traffickers threaten Honduras’s forests (English version)
May 22, 2007 Brus Laguna, Honduras — In his half-finished office in a wooden hut, Snyder Paisano, one of the six forestry technicians that protect the 800,000 hectares of the Río Plá...;
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War in the Honduran forests (English version)
Award Winner May 21, 2007 Salamá, Honduras — As Father Andrés Tamayo puts his cassock on to celebrate Mass, a group of soldiers with M16 rifles take their positions in the...
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Guerra en los bosques de Honduras
Award Winner Padre Andres Tamayo Salamá, Honduras — Mientras el padre Andrés Tamayo se pone la sotana para dar la misa, un grupo de soldados con rifles M16 toma...
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Traficantes amenazan selva de Honduras
Honduran solders and officials of the Ministerio Publico de Honduras. Photo courtesy of the Ministerio Publico de Honduras. 22 de Mayo, 2007 Brus Laguna, Honduras — En su oficina a medio construir en una...
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