Kintto Lucas

KINTTO LUCAS Uruguayan-Ecuadorian writer and journalist. Master in Advanced Studies in Spanish and Hispano-American Literature. He was Vice Chancellor of Ecuador and Itinerant Ambassador of Uruguay for UNASUR, CELAC and ALBA. He was director and editor of various newspapers and magazines, a correspondent for the Inter Press Service Agency and has written for various Latin American and European media. He has been a professor of journalism and political and geopolitical news, and a lecturer at various universities and international organizations. He was awarded the José Martí Latin American Journalism Prize. He received the Decoration of Merit in the Degree of Grand Cross from the Government of Peru and the Ho Chi Minh Gold Button from Vietnam and the Pen of Dignity from the National Union of Journalists of Ecuador. It has more than 20 books. Some of his books are: Caminamundos (1990), Indigenous and Black Rebellions in Latin America (1992), Desmadre de tiempo y geografía (1993), La Sed y el Agua (1995), Notes on football (1996), Mujeres del Siglo XX (1997), Plan Colombia. La Paz Armada (2000), The Rebellion of the Indians (2000), Rafael Correa: a stranger in Carondelet (2007), The War at Home (2009), As It Is: José Mujica's path to the presidency (2012) , The Ark of Reality -From the culture of silence to wikileaks- (2013), Written Portraits (2014), Ecuador Face and Cross -From the 1990s uprising to the Citizen Revolution- (Tres Tomos, 2015), Enrique Lucas y una question for Pessoa (2015), El Naufragio de la Humanidad / O Naufrágio da Humanidade (2017), José “Pepe” Mujica: I labirinti della vita (2018), Mercè Rodoreda. Barcelona and the “I-city” (2018), Realities and fictions: about books, writers and readers (2018), Scheherazade and other stories (2018) and Caminamundos, Cangrejos and other poetry gathered… a Destiempo (2018) and Vivir es be another (2020.