Pepe Escobar
Pepe Escobar is a Brazilian journalist. He writes a column – The Roving Eye – for Asia Times Online, and works as an analyst for Russian government-funded RT and Sputnik News, as well as Iranian government-funded Press TV. In addition, he previously worked for Qatari government-funded Al Jazeera.
Escobar has focused on Central Asia and the Middle East, and has covered Iran on a continuous basis since the late 1990s.
Escobar has reported extensively from Afghanistan. In August 2000, Escobar and two other journalists were arrested by the Taliban, and accused of photographing a soccer match. The following year, he interviewed Ahmad Shah Massoud, the military leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, shortly before Massoud was assassinated.
