The writer and war correspondent Ramón Lobo dies at the age of 68

MADRID, 2 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The journalist, writer and war correspondent, Ramón Lobo, has died this Wednesday at the age of 68, a victim of lung cancer, according to El País, a medium in which he worked for 20 years.

Throughout his professional career, Lobo covered various conflicts around the world such as Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Chechnya, Iraq, Argentina, Haiti, Rwanda, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Congo, Zimbabwe. , Namibia and the Philippines.

It was the journalist himself who announced last October on a Cadena Ser radio program, where he was also a collaborator, that he was suffering from two unrelated simultaneous cancers.

Lobo was born in Venezuela in 1955, although the son of Spanish to English, and in 1960 he moved to Spain. Later, in 1975, he enrolled in Journalism at the Complutense University of Madrid, and worked in various media outlets such as the Pyresa agency, Radio Intercontinental, Heraldo de Aragón, Radio 80, Actual, La Voz de América, Expansión, Cinco Dias, The Business Gazette and El Sol.

In 1992 he arrived at El País, his home for 20 years, as a writer for the international section, covering conflicts in many countries.

It was in 2012 when he became a collaborator in the Cadena Ser program, 'A vivir que son dos días'. He also collaborated in elDiario.es between 2014 and 2019, as well as in Jot Down, InfoLibre, El Periódico.

Among his decorations, the Cirilo Rodríguez journalism award (2001) stands out; Interculture in the Coexistence in Melilla (2005); José Manuel Porquet (2010); José Manuel Porquet (2010); International Press Club Award (2013); International Manu Leguineche Chair Award (2022).

In addition to his work as a war correspondent, Lobo also published four books: 'The non-existent hero' (Aguilar, 1999), 'Isla África' (Seix Barral, 2001), 'Cuadernos de Kabul' (RBA, 2010) and 'El Grozny hitchhiker and other football stories' (KO Books, 2012).