Fidel Raso

Fidel Raso was born in Sestao in 1953. He earned a degree in Journalism from the University of the Basque Countrywhile working as a reporter for Diario 16. During that period, he covered major events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first democratic elections in East Germany and Russia, and the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq during the First Gulf War. Later, other conflicts took him to places such as Ecuador and Ceuta.
In 2011, he received the Second Prize in the Cries for Freedom competition organized by the General Council of Spanish Lawyers; in 2014, the Second Prize from the National Association of Press and TV Photojournalists; and recently, he has been awarded the International Journalism Prize of the Manu Leguineche Chair in its fourth edition.