Roberto

Lovato is an independent investigative journalist specializing in Latin

American geopolitics, internal conflicts and border wars, asylum

seekers and the US incarceration of immigrants, the war on drugs and

climate change. He is a former research associate at the Center for

Latino Policy Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, and a

co-founder of the Latino online advocacy organization

Presente.org.  Earlier he was the executive director of the nation’s

largest immigrant rights organization, Central American Resource Center

and actively supported refugees and displaced communities during wartime

El Salvador. He was also targeted for his efforts. Roberto's research

into post-Katrina migrant exploitation led to a congressional

investigation. He is frequent contributor to The Nation, and his work

appears in numerous publications including The Guardian, Foreign Policy,

Der Spiegel, American Prospect, Mother Jones, Salon and others. He also

frequently appears networks such as MSNBC, BBC, CNN, NPR and

al-Jazeera.  His websites are RobertoLovato.com and Presente.org