El Comercio (Peru) - Team of Ricardo Uceda

Team of Ricardo Uceda

In 1994, Ricardo Uceda resigned as editor-in-chief of to form a special investigative team at El Comercio. As with Uceda's reporting, the Comercio team focused on cases of governmental corruption. One of the team's most notable successes came in 1998, when they exposed the misuse of state funds intended for the survivors of El Niño-created floods and mudslides; the story resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of Civil Defense Chief General Homero Nureña.

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