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Javier is a Berlin-based multimedia journalist. He completed a MA in International Journalism at City, University of London and is focused on humanitarian and conflict issues.
With experience in several countries, he's covered the refugee crisis, Turkey's coup attempt and the Kurdish conflict.
Among others, his work has been published at ABC News, Al Jazeera, Channel NewsAsia, RBB, IRIN News, El Confidencial, Público or Diario ABC.
New Podcast Series Investigates Pakistan's Most Famous And Unsolved Assassination
Benazir Bhutto was killed when she was about to become Pakistan's new Prime Minister (again). Her assassination, which came as no surprise, sent shock-waves across the country and the whole region. It happened ten years ago, but its consequences are still very much alive—as well as the many doubts surrounding the terrorist attack that put an end to her life.
That's why the BBC's Owen Bennett-Jones, former Pakistan correspondent, decided to investigate Bhutto's death in this podcast series called "The Assassination". With extraordinary access to confidential documents and the main characters of the story, he wants to know why no one has yet been convicted of her murder.
But the series goes beyond the tragic account of a remarkable, privileged, world famous politician. It is the story of a complex and violent country, whose stability is crucial not only for the Middle East, but also for the whole world—because Pakistan is an uncomfortable ally of the US and the West.
It's a nuclear-armed country in constant tension with India (which also has nuclear weapons). Furthermore, Pakistan keeps an ambiguous relationship with the Taliban, the radical Islamist group fighting the US-supported government in Afghanistan. After all, it was here, not far from its capital Islamabad, where Osama Bin Laden was found and killed by US special forces in 2011.
Looking into the details of what happened to Benazir Bhutto ten years ago gives us the keys to understanding how the country works today.
And Pakistan has just returned to the spotlight after the decision of President Donald Trump to freeze pretty much all the military aid to Pakistan (about $1.3 billion). It isn't the first time Washington withholds or modifies its funding, but as the New York Times puts it in a recent editorial piece:
President Trump’s bombast and the precipitous way the decision seems to have been made have led to doubts that Mr. Trump has a serious plan for managing the ramifications of this move
