Lucia Capuzzi

Lucia Capuzzi graduated in Political Science, followed by a doctorate in the History of Political Parties and Movements at Urbino University. She studied Italian emigration to Argentina after the Second World War. Based on this study, she published The imagined frontier: social and political analysis of Italian emigration in Argentina after the Second World War (2006). From 2004, she decided to become a journalist, attending a Masters at Cattolica University of Milan, with a dream: reporting on the reality of her beloved Latin America. She works at the International Affairs Desk of the Italian newspaper Avvenire, covering Latin American affairs. Before this, she worked on the science news programme Leonardo of the Italian public service broadcaster RAI. She is the author of Haiti. Il silenzio infranto (2010), Adiós Fidel. Fede e dissenso nella Cuba dei Castro (2011, written with Nello Scavo), Colombia. La guerra (in)finita (2012), Coca rosso sangue (2013), Rosa dei due mondi. Storia della nonna di Papa Francesco (2015), I narcos mi vogliono morto (2017, written with Alejandro Solalinde), Il giorno prima della pace (2019) and Frontiera Amazzonia (2019, written with Stefania Falasca).