Gustavo Andrés GORRITI ELLENBOGEN

On 10 September 2025, the Mayor of Lima, Rafael López Aliaga, held a press conference in which he smeared and threatened investigative journalist Gustavo Gorriti with death using Peruvian criminal slang. ‘We have to take the gentleman out once and for all,’ he said. At the same event, he linked Gorriti to former mayor Susana Villarán, who faces trial over alleged illegal contributions from the Brazilian construction companies Odebrecht and OAS. ‘She is his partner (Gorriti), and both form part of a group of corrupt people who have turned against Peru,‘ the Mayor of Lima asserted, without presenting evidence to support the claim. 

On 27 March 2024, Gorriti faced judicial harassment that sought to undermine his work as a journalist (see Case List 2024/2025). 

Over the past four decades, Gustavo Gorriti's journalistic writing has exposed cases of corruption at various levels of the Peruvian political and judicial system. Gorriti, born in San Isidro on the 4 February 1948, is the author of several books such as Sendero (Path), La Calavera en negro (The Skull in Black), and La Batalla (The Battle).