Pedro Portal
Photojournalist
Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald
Pedro Portal was a U.S. host who traveled to Colombia as a part of the of the Digital Path to Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Latin America program in 2017.
Born in Havana, Cuba. Portal lives and works in Miami. He has documented South Florida, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Venezuela South and Central America on assignments as a staff photojournalist-videographer for the Miami Herald/ El Nuevo Herald since 1995. He has won several awards from the National Association Hispanic Publications and NAHJ. He attended Miami Dade College and the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
We exposed corruption and human rights abuses working in a cross-border network supported by ICFJ.
— Lisseth Boon, Venezuela