Ibéyise Pacheco

In 2006 she published her first book, Bajo la sotana. ¡Las Confesiones del Padre Pablo! (Beneath the Cassock. The Confessions of Father Pablo!). In 2011 she published one of her most recognized works: Sangre en el Diván: el extraordinario caso del doctor Chirinos (Blood on the Divan: The Extraordinary Case of Doctor Chirinos), about the sexual abuse and murder of journalism student Roxana Vargas, patient of president Chávez' psychiatrist Edmundo Chirinos, and in 2012 she published El Grito Ignorado (The Ignored Scream). Currently she maintains a forum for analysis of Venezuela's political and social panorama called 3 minutos con La Pacheco (3 minutes with Pacheco), broadcast weekly on NTN24.

On 31 January 2002 the head office of the newspaper directed by Pacheco, Así es la noticia, was attacked with an explosive tossed by two persons on a motorcycle. This occurred a day after she and journalists Patricia Poleo, Marta Colomina, and Marianella Salazar published a video about conversations between the Venezuelan Army and the Colombian guerrilla FARC. Two months later the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a protection measure for the group.

After her graduation in 1986, she started her professional career working for El Diario de Caracas as an investigative journalist. Her coverage and publication of her first case Los Pozos de la muerte (The Death Wells), about the search for, and discovery of, the bodies of people who had disappeared at the hands of state police in Zulia, had significant international repercussions. In 1988 Pacheco was awarded the National Prize for Journalism, mention for investigative journalism, for her work on the “Manzopol” case, which dealt with extortion and drug trafficking connected with the police. The investigation caused the Minister of Justice, José Manzo González, to resign.

Ibéyise Pacheco (29 January 1961) is a Venezuelan journalist and writer, specializing in investigative journalism, who has been linked with politics due to her opposition to the governments of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro.