Gustavo Sierra

Gustavo Sierra is a journalist and writer with 40 years of global experience. He has served as a war correspondent, multimedia pioneer, and special correspondent for Clarín, CNN, Univision, Telemundo, NBC News Channel, Telenoticias, and Infobae. His extensive coverage includes the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Ukraine, entry into the Guantanamo prison camp, tracing Osama bin Laden along the AfghanPakistani border, White House accreditation, reporting on the Mexican narcowar, and detailing the 2008 Wall Street collapse.
Sierra has received numerous awards, including the Moors Cabot from Columbia University (2008), The Wellington Foundation (2005) under a jury led by Nobel laureate José Saramago, the SIP/Wall Street Journal (2010) for Digital Journalism, Asociacin de Corresponsales Extranjeros de España (2003), Congreso Iberoamericano de Periodismo Digital (2004), Konex (2007) and FOPEA/Investigacin Periodística (2015). He is the author of several books, including EL 68 (2018), LOS CHICOS DEL ISIS (2016), SINALOA-MEDELLÍN-ROSARIO (2014), EL CARTEL DE BAGRAM (2012), KABUL, BAGDAG, TEHERÁN (2006), and BAJO LAS BOMBAS (2003). He holds a master’s degree in Communications from Boston University.
THE DULTSEV AND THE RUSSIAN SPY FACTORY IN LATIN AMERICA (OS DULTSEV E A FÁBRICA DE ESPIÕES RUSSOS NA AMÉRICA LATINA)
This is the true story of a very “normal” Argentine family of Russian spies. They created their identity in Buenos Aires. Their two children were born there and lived undercover until the family was found by the Police while operating from Slovenia. The children first learned that their parents were Russian spies during a flight to Moscow after a prisoner exchange between Russia and the West in 2024, when Vladimir Putin welcomed their arrival at the airport with a friendly “buenas noches” - good evening in Spanish. A story that reveals a true industry of “illegal agents” that the Kremlin set up in Latin America with dozens of former KGB agents obtaining new identities and passports in the continent to continue operating around the world
A fascinating book that mixes and combines intrigue, suspense, and recent world history. The Netflix series “The Americans” becomes reality. Russian spies are among us; they may even be your friendly neighbors with their adorable children, who are completely unaware of their parents’ true identities. Publication/Status: To be published by Europa-América (Portugal) in 2026. Film rights optioned by RT Features.
BERLINER - THE AVENGER OF TREBLINKA (BERLINER - EL VINGADOR DE TREBLINKA)
At the Treblinka concentration camp, 850,000 Jews perished, while only one Nazi was killed—by Polish-Argentine Meir Berliner, who became a hero of the resistance. However, Berliner had a dark past in Argentina. Journalist and war correspondent Gustavo Sierra spent ten years investigating Berliner’s life, unraveling a complex narrative that reveals the duality of human nature: we can all be both victims and victimizers, heroes and villains.
Berliner was part of a Jewish-Polish mafia that trafficked Polish girls, many of them minors, for prostitution in brothels across Buenos Aires, Rosario, Montevideo, and Rio de Janeiro. After finding love and having a daughter, he attempted to escape this life, but international law enforcement pursued him. He fled from Rosario to Uruguay and then to Brazil, ultimately returning to war-torn Europe. Captured, he was confined in the Warsaw ghetto and later sent to Treblinka under the Final Solution. His wife and daughter perished in the gas chambers, while he was forced into labor due to his physical strength. He attempted to organize an uprising but failed to garner support, leading him to plan his final act of revenge.

Publication/Status: By Marea (Argentina) in September 2024. [200 pages]
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