Erica Vexler (died 30 April 2011) was a

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an journalist, editor, and television presenter best known for her reporting for the magazine '' Ercilla'' – of which she was editor in 1966 and subsequently subeditor until 1970 – and for presenting the program ''Erika Vexler 600'' on Canal 13. In 1968, the presented her with the Lenka Franulic Award, which she shared with C. Machado. In 1970, after the victory of

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in the

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, she moved to

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, where she served as a correspondent for

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Colonia Dignidad case

Vexler was one of the first journalists to investigate and publish a series of denunciations about the conditions that existed in the former

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, in co-authorship with Osvaldo Murray and Juan Ehrmann. These incited the first judicial inquiry into the colony between 1966 and 1968, without conclusive results. Such reports appeared in ''Ercilla'' during the 1960s: * *

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