Barbara Fraser

My reporting has taken me from Andean villages in the shadow of glaciers to indigenous communities in the Amazon suffering from oil spills, and from a migrant stopover in southern Mexico train yard to an ethnobotanical park off the tip of Tierra del Fuego. I came to Peru in 1989 as a lay missioner with Maryknoll, and have worked in grassroots communications projects, as director and editor of Latinamerica Press/Noticias Aliadas, and as a freelance journalist writing mainly on environmental, health and indigenous issues for publications including EcoAmericas, The Lancet, Nature, Science, Discover and National Geographic Online. I've covered the Catholic Church in Latin America for National Catholic Reporter and Catholic News Service, including Pope Francis' trips to Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru and the 2019 Synod for the Amazon in Rome. Follow me on Twitter at @Barbara_Fraser.

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Mis reportajes me han llevado desde  aldeas andinas, a la sombra de los glaciares, hasta comunidades indígenas de la Amazonía que sufren vertidos de petróleo; y también desde una escala de inmigrantes en un depósito de trenes del sur de México hasta un parque etnobotánico en la punta de Tierra de Fuego. Llegué a Perú en 1989 como misionera laica de Maryknoll, y he trabajado en proyectos de comunicación de basecomo directora y editora de Latinoamérica Press/Noticias Aliadas, y como periodista freelance escribiendo principalmente sobre  temas medioambientales, de salud e indígenas para publicaciones como EcoAméricas, The Lancet, Nature, Science, Discover y National Geographic Online. He cubie rto reportajes sobre la Iglesia católica en América Latina para National Catholic Reporter y Catholic News Service, incluyendo los viajes del papa Francisco a Ecuador, Paraguay y Perú y el Sínodo para la Amazonía de 2019 en Roma. Sígueme en Twitter en @Barbara_Fraser.

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