e-mail: dcariboni@ipslatam.net
Diana Cariboni was born in Argentina in 1962 and has lived in Uruguay since 1984. She has been the chief editor of IPS Latin America since March 2003.

Diana joined the agency in 2001 as a translator/editor from English into Spanish. Shortly afterwards, she took on web editor responsibilities for ipsnoticias.net. In 2002, she joined the Tierramérica team, an IPS publication on environment and development, as editorial coordinator.

She began her career as a journalist in 1992 working for various media in Uruguay, such as El Observador and El País newspapers, and Sarandí and Setiembre FM radio stations. Besides specialising in technology, science, and public health, she has written research articles on these subjects.

Diana also worked as a writer on international politics, economy and environment for the Third World Institute publications (a subsidiary of the Third World Network). She is married and the mother of five children. .

e-mail: swildes@ipsnews.net
Stephanie Wildes, who coordinates IPS news translations from Spanish into English, has been working with the agency since the Latin American editor’s desk moved to Montevideo in 1994.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in History and a Master’s degree in Communications from the University of Minnesota, United States, where she taught Introduction to Public Speaking, as a graduate student. She is the mother of three.

e-mail: cayena@007mundo.com
Yadira Ferrer joined IPS in 198 as the agency’s correspondent in Colombia. She specialises in human rights coverage, and alternates her journalism work with her job as a teacher.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Communication from the Autonomous University of the Caribbean (Barranquilla), where she specialised in Journalism, and a Postgraduate degree in International Relations from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, in Bogotá.

She began her journalism career in 1978 at the radio station Caracol de Barranquilla, the city where she was born. She worked as a reporter on legal issues for the newspaper El Heraldo and as the editor of economic news for the Diario del Caribe.

e-mail: mmvalente@fibertel.com.ar
Marcela Valente has been IPS correspondent in Argentina since 1990, specialising in social and gender issues.

She is a history teacher and alternates her correspondent work with teaching journalism at various schools and in workshops. At the University of Buenos Aires, she has taught Introduction to the Study of Society and the State.

Marcela has participated in several courses and workshops on journalism in Costa Rica, Germany, Denmark and Uruguay, and has covered news in Brazil, Ecuador, Uruguay and Sweden. She began her career in 1985 as a contributor for the Argentine newspaper Clarín. She also worked for El Correo de Bilbao (Spain) and the Uruguayan weekly magazine Brecha, among other media.

e-mail: lmazza@ipslatam.net
María Laura Mazza, born in Uruguay, is a Certified Translator of English and Portuguese. She joined the IPS Latin American desk in Montevideo in 1995 as a translator/editor from English into Spanish.

She has worked as a contributor for IPS and Tierramérica in the coverage of several international conferences and is part of the translators’ teams of the Third World Institute and International Media Services (IMS). Since June 2003 she has been a regular contributor to the IPS environmental weekly, Tierramérica. She is married and has two children.

e-mail: ipschile@terra.cl
Gustavo González Rodríguez graduated in 1970 with a degree in journalism from the University of Chile, where he now also works as an academic. He joined IPS in 1979 and has covered events in Quito, Rome and San José, Costa Rica. Since 1989, he has been the correspondent-director of the Santiago bureau. Gustavo has contributed to many Chilean and international publications and has written several essays on Communication and Journalism. From 1993 to 1995 he was the president of the Foreign Correspondents Association of Chile.

e-mail: hmarquez@ipslatam.net
Humberto, who joined IPS in 1999, has been a journalist for more than 25 years, specialising in international news.

He worked for 15 years with Agence France Presse (AFP), 10 as assignment editor in Caracas, for Venezuela, the Caribbean and the Guyanas. He also worked for more than five years in the international section of the Caracas newspaper El Nacional.

Humberto has covered various international conferences, regional summits, electoral processes in the Americas and Europe, conflicts and peace negotiations, tours by the Pope, the petroleum business, sports events and the state of prison systems.

e-mail: kintto@ecuanex.net.ec, kintto@yahoo.com
Kintto Lucas, Uruguayan born but resident of Ecuador since 1990, is an IPS contributor specialising in indigenous issues in Latin America and social and political conflicts in the Andean area, especially the Colombian civil conflict.

He is director of Tintají magazine, member of the editorial board of the Revista Nacional de Cultura of Ecuador and a contributor to various Latin American and European publications.

In 1990, he received the José Martí Latin American Journalism Award. Kintto worked as a columnist for the newspapers Hoy, La Hora and El Comercio in Quito, and Expreso in Guayaquil.

In addition to working as a teacher in the Andean University Simón Bolívar and the Catholic University in Quito, he has written the books "Rebeliones indígenas y negras en América Latina" (1992), "Mujeres del siglo XX" (1997), "La rebelión de los indios" (2001) and "Plan Colombia. La Paz Armada" (2001).

e-mail: pgrogg@ipslatam.net
Patricia Grogg was born in Chile but lives in Cuba where she joined the IPS team in Havana in 1998. She shares the Cuban correspondent duties with Dalia Acosta.

Patricia worked as a correspondent and contributor for the Mexican newspapers El Día and Día Latinoamericano, among other media, and as a reporter, editor and assignment editor for the Cuban agency Prensa Latina. She also worked as a journalist for the magazine Cuba Internacional.

In 1994 and 1995 was the news director of the South American regional office of the Mexican agency Notimex in Santiago, Chile. Since 1997 she has worked as a correspondent for the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio.

She studied Spanish Literature at the University of Chile and Journalism in the University of Havana.

e-mail: dacosta@ipslatam.net
Dalia Acosta joined IPS en 1990 as a contributor and since 1995 she has been IPS correspondent in Havana, along with Patricia Grogg.

She received her degree International Journalism from the State Institute of International Relations in Moscow in 1987. Dalia worked for the Cuban newspapers Granma and Juventud Rebelde, where she specialised in investigative journalism related to women, minorities, AIDS and sexual rights. In 1991, she began working for the Servicio de Noticias de la Mujer (SEM).

In 1990, she received the Tina Modotti Journalism Award and two years later she won the National Journalism Award for an article on the rock music community in Cuba.

Currently she alternates her IPS work with an academic investigation of homosexuality in Cuba.

e-mail: mpereira@ipslatam.net
Marcelo Pereira, born in Montevideo in 1957, joined the IPS Latin American desk in 1998 as editor and as translator from English into Spanish.

He completed Medical school and studied Sociology at the University of the Republic of Uruguay. As a journalist, his main interests are political analysis and culture. His stories have been published in different Uruguayan media such as Asamblea, the weekly bulletin Uruguay en la Coyuntura, from the Centro Uruguay Independiente, and Brecha, a weekly newspaper where he still works as a contributor.

Marcelo is the co-author of several books, such as "Coyuntura: Respuesta y desafío" (with Herbert José de Souza and Enrique Rubio, 1985), "1980-1984: Operación Sanguinetti" (1985), "Utopía y Estrategia" (with Enrique Rubio, 1994), and "¿Hacia un nuevo modelo de relaciones laborales? De la apertura política a la apertura económica. Uruguay 1985-1998" (contributor, 1998). He is married and has two children.

e-mail: ldorow@ipsnews.net
Linda Dorow has been working for IPS as translator/editor from Spanish into English since 1999, and as web editor of the ipsnews.net site since 2002.
She was an editor of the TerraViva journals published by IPS during the World Social Forums in Porto Alegre in 2002 and 2003, and covered the International Conference on Peace and Development in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in August 2002.

She studied Political Science and Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Minnesota and at universities in Spain and Uruguay. She obtained her Spanish translation certificate from the University of California, San Diego.

Linda lives in Montevideo with her dog Juneau. She tries her hand at writing fiction in Spanish in an ongoing literary workshop.

e-mail: dcevallos@ipslatam.net
Diego Cevallos was born in Ecuador in 1965 and began working as a contributor for IPS in 1989. In 1992 he was appointed correspondent in Quito and two years later he relocated to Mexico. In 1997 he has represented IPS in that country..

He specialises in coverage of international meetings and of indigenous issues, for which he has travelled many times to the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, stronghold of the Zapatista guerrillas, as well as to many other places in Latin America.

Diego holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the Central University of Ecuador and a Postgraduate degree in Strategic Political Analysis from the Economic Research and Teaching Centre in Mexico. He also studied Law at the Catholic University of Ecuador and has worked in TV and other media.

e-mail: rpierri@ipslatam.net
Raúl Pierri was born in Buenos Aires, lived for nine years in Mexico and moved to Uruguay in 1985. He joined IPS in May 2000 as junior editor, correspondent and translator from English into Spanish at the Latin American desk.

Raúl began work in 1996 as a columnist and editor of crime news for La República newspaper, where he also served as a writer and editor for economic, labour and international news. He studies History and Literature at the University of the Republic of Uruguay.

e-mail: mjelen@ipslatam.net.
Marcelo Jelen joined IPS in Montevideo in 1994, working first as a news contributor and later on the editor’s desk. He is a translator/editor from English into Spanish and in 2003 he was named web editor for ipsnoticias.net, IPS's Spanish news site.

Marcelo has worked as an international news analyst for the TV show Mundo Cañón, a reporter for the Uruguayan newspapers La República and El Observador, and from 1995 to 1998 was part of the creative team of Guambia, a magazine of political humour. He has participated in the radio shows Rompecabezas and Mundo Cañón and has been a contributor to various publications (Brecha, El Periodista, Hechos, Mediomundo, Tribuna Amplia and Participación). In 1997, he published the book “Traficantes de realidad”, an essay on journalism.

e-mail: dmontero@ipslatam.net
Darío Montero joined IPS Latin America as an editor in 1997. His specialties are Uruguayan and international politics and economics.

He has worked extensively in radio. In 2002 he began contributing to the programme "Zona Oeste", of El Puente FM in Montevideo, a radio affiliated to the World Association of Community Radios.

He worked as a journalism director, producer and co-presenter on several programmes of the radio stations AM Libre and El Espectador in Montevideo.

Darío worked for La República newspaper as assistant editor, chief of political and general news, and writer and coordinator of research teams. He also worked for Aquí weekly as international news chief and correspondent in Argentina.

He studied History and Geography at the Catholic institute Nuestra Señora de las Nieves in Buenos Aires.

e-mail: mosava@terra.com.br
Mario Osava has been an IPS correspondent since 1978. When he first joined the agency, he worked from Lisbon, and since 1980 he has been based in Rio de Janeiro. He specialises in news on the environment, economic integration and social issues.

He was in charge of covering two international United Nations conferences for IPS: the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and the Habitat Summit in Istanbul in 1996. He also covered the World Social Forums in Porto Alegre in 2001 and 2003.

Mario was born in Brazil in 1945 and is the son of two Japanese immigrants. He studied Journalism in Sao Paulo and, before beginning work as a journalist, he taught Portuguese, worked in adult literacy, filmmaking and community organisation in the 'favelas' (Brazilian slums). He has lived in Cuba, Chile, Belgium, Portugal and Angola.

He worked as a journalist in Angola and as a writer for the magazine Cuadernos del Tercer Mundo and O Globo newspaper.