Héctor Silva

Héctor Silva Ávalos has 20 years’ experience as a journalist, editor and writer. He has worked in El Salvador as a reporter and editor for La Prensa Gráfica and as a collaborator for El Faro internet news magazine and for Plaza Pública in Guatemala. In 2014, he co-founded the online magazine Revista Factum. Silva Ávalos is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University in Washington, DC. He is a graduate of Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA) in El Salvador and has a MA in journalism from the University of Barcelona, Spain, and Columbia University. Silva Ávalos has been an InSight Crime collaborator since 2012.

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