Born in Vigo in 1958, is a journalist. For fourteen years he worked for El País five correspondent for Africa, and since 1999, for ABC. It was New York correspondent of this newspaper until the summer of 2005, when he joined the writing in Madrid. He has published, among other books African Notebooks, Spain, from sunrise to sunset, The rumor of the border, New York, desire and illusion, and the poems Temporary.