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About Us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

ARMANDOINFO<\/strong> is a community of journalists born in Venezuela in the heat of crisis and censorship of its media. Its aim is to provide an independent platform that supports and accompanies Venezuelan and Latin American journalists in reporting well-narrated and detailed transnational stories that have no place elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The platform is a reference in journalistic investigations in Venezuela on money laundering, human rights, and environmental issues, through well-told stories that have the support and mentoring of professionals and global journalist networks. Panama Papers and Wikileaks are some examples of international collaborations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARMANDOINFO<\/strong> appears for the first time in 2010, as an incipient research journalism project. However, it was formally launched on Sunday, July 20, 2014. From then on, it publishes investigative stories with accurate, well-documented and well-written information week after week. To date (August 2017), over three hundred (300) reports have been produced and spread by the ARMANDOINFO<\/strong> community.

Although it is an emerging medium, ARMANDOINFO<\/strong> has counted on the best investigative journalists in Venezuela. Likewise, it has developed and published journalistic pieces in alliance with consolidated media, such as El Universo from Ecuador, El Nuevo Herald from Miami, Clar\u00edn from Argentina, La Naci\u00f3n from Costa Rica, Semana from Colombia, and Confidencial from Nicaragua. Among these and other reports, some outstanding high- impact investigations are \"Propietarios de la censura\" (Owners of Censorship), conducted for a year with the Press and Society Institute and Poderopedia, and stood out among the three most innovative works nominated in the 2015 edition of the Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez Foundation for New Ibero-American Journalism award. A similar case is the HSBC scandal, a work coordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), based in Washington, for a network of 66 media in which ARMANDOINFO<\/strong> participated as the Venezuelan correspondent.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In the dawn of daily events, we develop our own vision... If you read ARMANDOINFO, you can understand what happens in Venezuela behind the scenes.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

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ARMANDOINFO <\/strong>was selected by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) to coordinate the investigations by a team of 11 journalists, representing 4 national media in Venezuela, on irregular financial practices of Venezuelan officials. The investigation was based on documents leaked from the Mossack Fonseca firm, better known as the Panama Papers, the global research of which involved a network of over 370 journalists from 109 media in 76 nations, and in 2017 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

Since 2015, ARMANDOINFO<\/strong> is a member of the renowned Global Investigative Journalism Network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our community of allied journalists, media and organizations includes:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Our Work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Venezuela's few independent media have been forged on the Web. No wonder El Pa\u00eds from Spain referred to \"La Primavera de los medios digitales en Venezuela\" (The Spring of Digital Media in Venezuela) a couple of years ago, and ARMANDOINFO<\/strong> stood out among them, as the only one engaged in investigative journalism. The objective is not only to circumvent the media siege, but to produce journalistic stories that escape sensationalism and speculation generated by the dynamics and urgency of journalism to investigate the occult, the trends, the last phenomena, the underlying forces and powers.

ARMANDOINFO <\/strong>has specialized in investigating issues of corruption and money laundering, which have generated international public debate, as the case of the multiple bribes to officials from at least 12 countries by the Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht. An investigation of the portal motivated the departure of the Treasurer of Venezuela, Carlos Erik Malpica Flores, whose face and irregularities while in his position were made public for the first time after the publication of the report. Both Odebrecht\u2019s case and Flores Malpica\u2019s case were jointly investigated with local journalists and local and Latin American media collaborators.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"In ARMANDOINFO we merge our two most important strengths: research and well-told stories\".<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

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In addition to money laundering and corruption, ARMANDOINFO's <\/strong>agenda includes human rights cases, such as the series of stories that revealed an AIDS epidemic in the indigenous communities of the Orinoco Delta, which had wide repercussions and international follow-up, in addition to a mention in the National Award for Investigative Journalism of IPYS Venezuela. There is also the case of a report on the illegal sale of cancer treatment drugs in Venezuela, an investigation of the so-called indigenous self-defense groups, which is rising in southern Venezuela, and a work by a team of Cuban journalists with the portal editors\u2019 mentorship, on the eternal return of garbage in Havana.

ARMANDOINFO <\/strong>is also interested in the environmental impact of mining and deforestation practices, such as the disproportionate cutting of Sierra de Perija. Irregularities in the health system and medical care are thoroughly examined in cases like the spread of diphtheria and malaria in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Our Method<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

ARMANDOINFO <\/strong>promotes and defends the values of independence, balance, transparency and narrative in the practice and development of local and international investigative journalism among the new generations of journalists. It offers fully documented, well-narrated and well-edited journalistic findings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Based on the study conducted by the University of Texas (October 2016):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n