Alejandra Matus

Alejandra Matus is a Chilean journalist. She studied in Pontificia Universidad Católica and return to Chile two years ago, after study a Master in Harvard. She has work in radio, magazine, news and digital media. Also she was manager of “Pan B” magazine.


She has wrote three books: “Crimen con castigo”, about the murder of Valentin Letelier; “El libro negro de la justicia chilena”, what was censored in Chile; and “Injusticia duradera”, about the status of the freedom expression in Chile.

She has work as teacher in different universities in Chile, United State and Europe. I Admire her work, and specially her book “el libro negro de la justicia chilena”. I had to read in the first year of my career. In this book she talks about some secrets and bad practice of the Chilean justice. Her book was published in 1999 and confiscated the same day. The minister of Corte Suprema, Servando Jordan, acused to Matus of contempt the Security State law. She decides go to exile in United States and return in 2005, when the article of contempt was remove.

I think that Alejandra is an example of ethic and professionalism, because she defended her research and fight for show the injustice and the most turbid secrets about the powerful men in Chile.