Erica Vexler | |
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Died |
Tel Aviv, Israel | 30 April 2011
Nationality | Chilean |
Alma mater | University of Chile |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, editor, television presenter |
Children | Mariana |
Awards | Lenka Franulic Award |
Erica Vexler Poreiki (died 30 April 2011 [1]) was a Chilean journalist, editor, and television presenter best known for her reporting for the magazine Ercilla – of which she was editor in 1966 and subsequently subeditor until 1970 – and for presenting the program Erika Vexler 600 on Canal 13. [2] In 1968, the National Association of Women Journalists of Chile presented her with the Lenka Franulic Award, which she shared with Carmen Machado. [3]
In 1970, after the victory of Salvador Allende in the presidential election, she moved to Israel, where she served as a correspondent for Televisa. [4]
Vexler was one of the first journalists to investigate and publish a series of denunciations about the conditions that existed in the former Colonia Dignidad, in co-authorship with Osvaldo Murray and Juan Ehrmann. [4] [5] [6] These incited the first judicial inquiry into the colony between 1966 and 1968, without conclusive results. [5] Such reports appeared in Ercilla during the 1960s: