Carlos Eduardo Huertas is Director of CONNECTAS, the pioneering and leading Latin American investigative journalism and collaboration platform. An independent journalism initiative, Carlos founded CONNECTAS in 2012 when he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
With 160 members in 19 countries, CONNECTAS is the largest and most vibrant regional newsroom. It has exposed abuses of power (even in closed societies), and its weekly analyses explain the most relevant issues in Latin America. Its regional expansion was consolidated alongside the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), as Huertas led the Initiative for Investigative Journalism in the Americas, a 10-year collaborative program between the two organizations.
The program’s reports on corruption, human rights violations, and the environment have earned him national and international recognition. Also, as a member of ICFJ, he has participated in its most prominent global publications. In his activity as a reporter and as leader of the editorial board at CONNECTAS, he has participated in numerous collective investigations that have received close to one hundred awards in a dozen countries and the most outstanding Spanish-speaking awards. The most recent is the Maria Moors Cabot Award, the oldest international journalism award in the world.
