 In January 1998 he became a news reporter for the newspaper El Nuevo Herald, and leads presentations about press freedom and independent journalism.He was invited for the International Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the Inter Press Association (IAPA) and the regional division of the organization Freedom Forum in Buenos Aires, Argentina.In March 1999 he was fired from El Nuevo Herald, in disagreement with the newspaper’s editor Carlos Castaneda.