Ricardo Sandoval Palos
Project Manager, ICIJ -- Center for Public Integrity
In February, 2010, I became a project manager at the Washington, DC-based Center for Public Integrity. I'm an editor with the center's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Before joining The Center, I was assistant city editor at the Sacramento Bee, supervising environment, science, medical and transportation coverage.. Before that I was a Latin America correspondent, based in Mexico City, for the Dallas Morning News and Knight Ridder Newspapers. I wrote about drug trafficking and the serial murders of women in Ciudad Juarez. In Venezuela I covered the rise and fall and rebound of Hugo Chavez, while in Colombia I covered peace talks between the government and FARC rebels. In my three decades as a journalist, I've also covered the savings and loan scandal and the deregulation of public utility companies. I've won awards such as the Overseas Press Club and the Inter-American Press Association, for “Lost in Transit,” a probe of profiteering in the international remittance business, and the Gerald Loeb prize for business journalism for “PG&E Unplugged,” a series on how Pacific Gas and Electric, in the mid-1990s, mishandled massive blackouts in Northern California and stumbled on the path toward deregulation. In 2003 I investigated the fate of millions of dollars withheld from paychecks of World War II-era Mexican guest workers in the United States. The findings fueled a lawsuit that led to reimbursement by the Mexican government. I also co-authored the biography “The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement” published in 1997 by Harcourt.
