Paola Ugaz

Paola Margot Ugaz Cruz (born 1974) is a Peruvian investigative journalist, known for having uncovered cases of child sexual abuse committed by the Peruvian Catholic society Sodalitium Christianae Vitae. She is the director of .

Early life and education Paola Ugaz was born in Lima, Peru, in 1974. She attended the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

Career Ugaz began her journalism career in 1999 as a reporter for the magazine Caretas. She later worked as a producer for the Canal N program Entrelíneas. In 2009, she was a founding contributor to the online publication IDL-Reporteros.

Investigation into Sodalitium Along with her colleague Pedro Salinas, Ugaz launched an investigation into alleged cases of sexual, physical, and psychological abuse of young boys committed under the auspices of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, also known in Spanish as Sodalicio de Vida Cristiana, a society of apostolic life founded in Peru in 1971 by Luis Fernando Figari. After five years of work, the reporters published Mitad monjes, mitad soldados in 2015. Figari was sanctioned by the Vatican and went into exile. In 2025, a play titled Proyecto Ugaz dramatized her investigation.