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Florencia Melgar, a graduate of the Bachelor's Degree in Communication Orientación Periodismo, and Roger Rodríguez, a journalist specializing in human rights, spoke about the role of investigative journalism in critical transnational issues such as organized crime, corruption, and human rights violations
Ms. Melgar She has been a member of the team at the Australian public radio and TV network SBS since 2011. She is the founder of the website Latinhub.com.au, which provides information and services in Spanish in Australia. In Uruguay, he worked on the radio program *No Toquen Nada* and at TV Ciudad. He published dozens of investigative reports in Uruguayan publications between 2006 and 2010.
He received three grants from the Australian government to develop community journalism projects, one of which culminated in the publication of a book of stories about Latin American refugees in Australia, with a foreword by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchú.
She is the author of the book Sabotage of the truth which investigates how the parliamentary commission investigating the murders of Zelmar Michelini and Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz was sabotaged. The book is the result of his journalism thesis at Universidad ORT Uruguay in Universidad ORT Uruguay.
In 2014, he received the award for best investigative journalism in New South Wales, Australia, for uncovering Australia’s secret involvement in Pinochet’s coup d’état in Chile in 1973—an investigation that was censored by Australian security services. A significant portion of the investigation remains unpublished. This work was recognized by the Victorian government in Australia and was a finalist in two international competitions.
Roger Rodríguez He holds a diploma from the José Martí International Institute of Journalism in Havana. He has worked for the publications Time for Change (1985), Democracy (1985), La Hora (1985–87), Alternative (1985–87), Prensa Latina (1987–88), Gap (1988–1993), Friend (1989), Posdata Magazine (1994–2001), Front Page (2000), The Republic (2001–2010) and Faces & Masks ((2010–2013).
He published articles in See (Brazil), Vote (Brazil), Retail (Peru) and America XXI (Venezuela), among others. He currently publishes his research and articles on Facebook, garnering attention in the mainstream media.
A specialist in human rights, he contributed to Argentine and Uruguayan legal proceedings regarding Operation Condor, where—following the identification of the child Simón Riquelo—he denounced Orletti’s so-called “Second Flight” (2002), which confirmed the transfer of the disappeared to their countries of origin.
He testified before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) in the Gelman Case, during which he identified the clandestine torture center known as Base Valparaíso (2005).
He has received the “Vladimir Herzog” Award (São Paulo, 1984), the “19th Porto Alegre Human Rights Award” (Brazil, 2002), the “Morosoli Award” (Lolita Ruibal Foundation, Lavalleja, 2008), the “Chico Mendes Medal of Resistance” (Rio de Janeiro, 2011), and the “Casa América Catalunya Award” (Barcelona, 2011), among others.