*This talk is presented in Spanish.*
Oscar Parra Castellanos is a journalist specializing in digital media with 10 years of experience writing on politics and human rights issues. He is also a professor of journalism and digital tools for journalists in the Universidad del Rosario in the city of Bogota, Colombia. Parra Castellanos has developed several journalism databases with information about the Colombian drug war, and Colombian politicians related to paramilitary groups or involved in corruption. He holds a master's degree in journalism from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, and a bachelors degree in computer engineering from Universidad del Rosario, in Bogota, Colombia.
This talk is part of a series of speeches and discussions from the Conference on Violence and Policing in Latin American and U.S. Cities. The conference was hosted and organized by the Program on Poverty and Governance at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Presentation: http://stanford.io/1tOQ0FQ. For more information on the Program on Poverty and Governance, please visit http://povgov.stanford.edu and follow #PovGov on Twitter.