Hervieu, Benoît

Benoît Hervieu, who was born in 1973, has headed the Americas desk of Reporters Without Borders since February 2005. He graduated from the Paris school of journalism in 1997 and has worked for several regional and national media, including the weekly Réforme and public radio France Culture. Benoît, who is a long-term Latin-America enthusiast, has made several trips there - throughout almost all of South America - in addition to his missions for Reporters Without Borders, the first of which took him to Mexico in 2005, in the states bordering the USA. He has in the past reported on coca growers in Bolivia, the crisis in Argentina, the new evangelical movements in Brazil and the history of the dictatorships in the Condor Plan countries.