🇦🇷Rafael Mathus Ruiz is an economist and the US Correspondent for Argentina’s  newspaper, ‘La Nacion.’ Rafael began his career as a Foreign Correspondent in New York, in 2010, after completing his studies in journalism and economics at Columbia University.

📺In this interview we talk about:

🎞️News coverage of Sandy Hook, 911, Osama bin Laden’s assassination and presidential campaigns from the point of view of a journalist.

🚔“I’d been basically charged by the police. I was there in the front lines with the protesters.”

🥺“There were alot of conflicting emotions.”

😌”There’s no protocol on how to deal with these situations. Every thing we’ve talked about…I’ve dealt with on my own…No one has taught me how to handle specific reporting situations that could be harmful or stressful.”

🤓“I never pause and think, what is the damage that working on this story or this coverage has created? I think I just move on to the next news story and just keep going.”

📽After a few years in Washington and after covering the Trump presidency, which was a very complicated and challenging time, I felt a level of exhaustion that I never felt before to disengage and to disengage completely.”

🎤Rafael has worked in Buenos Aires as a finance and economics reporter, covering three presidential campaigns in the United States and the 2018 presidential campaign in Mexico.

📝His work has been featured in more than 20 countries across the world. He is the co-author of “Los Legalizadores,” a book about the legalization of cannabis in the United States, published by Editorial Planeta, the largest Spanish publisher.