Braulio Jatar

Braulio Jatar is a Chilean-Venezuelan lawyer and journalist, director of the Reporte Confidencial website, and political prisoner.

Career In addition to being a journalist, Jatar has served as a lawyer and political activist. He worked closely with Caracas journalist Oscar Yánez, has written five books, and in the 90s he was legal advisor to the National Congress. Jatar faced extortion charges in 1991 and went to Miami, being exonerated later. According to Ana Julia Jatar, his sister, Jatar was a criminal lawyer in a case against government officials accused of corruption, and in 1989 he litigated against the secretary and lover of President Jaime Lusinchi, Blanca Ibáñez. In 2007, he founded the news site Reporte Confidencial.

Personal life Jatar's sister Ana has spoken publicly to say that her brother sympathized with Chavismo until 2007, when "he realized that it was a non-democratic process" and a form of "totalitarianism".