Vicente Botín

Who is Vicente Botín?

Vicente Botín, writer and journalist. He was born in Burgos and studied Journalism, Politics and Sociology in Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Vicente Botín started in Press mostly about International Politics, specially Latin America. In 1971 he travelled across the whole continent as on-the-scene reporter for different broadcast Media and from Chile he was one the first Spanish journalist enterviwed President Salvador Allende.

In 1972 he started in Televisión Española. He travelled across the world making reports of many important events of that time: France, United Kingdom, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon, Morocco y Zimbabwe, among others.

Nevertheless his major works were about Latin America: In the 60's he made documentaries in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Paraguay, Cuba, Ecuador, Haiti, and Brasil, Guatemala, Perú, Chile and Honduras.

In coproduction between Televisión Española and UNHCR he film the documentary “Duro oficio el exilio”, about the drama of Central America refugees.

Years later he was the director of En Portada, long documentaries program of TVE, but he continued making reports across the world. The most representative was “El descubrimiento de la lentitud”, film abord a copy of the Santa María Caravel, a trip made in the same conditions that Cristóbal Colón has in his discovered of America.