Roberto Giusti is a Venezuelan journalist. He worked at numerous newspapers including El Nacional and El Universal. He has written a lot of books including Yo Lo Viví, Memorias Inconclusas, and Pasión Guerrilla. He worked for

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TV and was the host of Primera Página and Grado 33.

Early life

Born in

Rubio, Venezuela Rubio is a town in the Venezuelan Andean state of Táchira. Founded in 1794 by Gervasio Rubio, this town is the shire town of the Junín Municipality and, according to the 2001 Venezuelan census, the municipality has a population of 68,869.http:/ ...

Death threats

On 13 May 2003, Giusti, host of the

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program ''Golpe a Golpe'' ("coup to coup") with Fausto Masso, filed a complaint with the Public Prosecutor’s Office denouncing the death threats he had been receiving. On 2 May, a group of about fifty people entered the studios of Radio Caracas Radio and began shouting offensive slogans at the journalist and calling him a "murderer". The attackers sprayed graffiti on the building’s walls and Giusti’s car. Giusti called for an investigation into the incident and possible links to his reports on the presence of the government of

Hugo Chávez Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (; 28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician who was president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, except for a brief period in 2002. Chávez was also leader of the Fifth Republ ...

and Colombian guerrillas in Venezuela.

Interview With the Guerrilla

In the state of

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, the guerrilla was kidnapping and was taking money from the farmers that lived there. Giusti, which grew up in that state, knew some of the farmers and decided to do something. He went to

from

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and started investigating. After talking to some of the local farmers, he decided to interview some members of the Guerrilla. After a year of negotiations, the members of the Guerrilla and Giusti agreed on an interview in a Guerrilla camp. He was interviewing Commander Alexis. While interviewing him, Commander Alexis admitted to killing eight members of the Venezuelan Marine Corps in the famous Cararabo Massacre in 1995. He then passed the border to Colombia to interview

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an important

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member. Reyes said that he was like

, a Marxist-Leninist. Giusti later found a Colombian Guerrilla camp in

and reported it through the El Universal newspaper. When the Government of

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was going to

to the reunion between Venezuelan president

and Colombian president

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, they invited Giusti to it in

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. The Colombian Government gave him a map of all the camps of the Guerrilla in

and he released it. He later received threats from the Venezuelan Government and the Guerrilla, but they didn't mess with him. PasiónGuerrilla

References

Books

* Hernández, Ramón, and Roberto Giusti. ''

Carlos Andrés Pérez Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez (27 October 1922 – 25 December 2010) also known as CAP and often referred to as '' El Gocho'' (due to his Andean origins), was a Venezuelan politician and the president of Venezuela from 12 March 1974 to 12 M ...

: Memorias Proscritas''. Caracas: Los Libros de El Nacional, 2006

External links

* Roberto Giusti, ''El Universal'', 21 October 2009
Not against Chávez: It is against all the ordeals suffered by us as something natural and unavoidable
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