Roberto
Lovato is an independent investigative journalist specializing in Latin
American geopolitics, internal conflicts and border wars, asylum
seekers and the US incarceration of immigrants, the war on drugs and
climate change. He is a former research associate at the Center for
Latino Policy Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, and a
co-founder of the Latino online advocacy organization
Presente.org. Earlier he was the executive director of the nation’s
largest immigrant rights organization, Central American Resource Center
and actively supported refugees and displaced communities during wartime
El Salvador. He was also targeted for his efforts. Roberto's research
into post-Katrina migrant exploitation led to a congressional
investigation. He is frequent contributor to The Nation, and his work
appears in numerous publications including The Guardian, Foreign Policy,
Der Spiegel, American Prospect, Mother Jones, Salon and others. He also
frequently appears networks such as MSNBC, BBC, CNN, NPR and
al-Jazeera. His websites are RobertoLovato.com and Presente.org
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