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Andersson Boscán
Also known as: Boscán · Andersson Boscan · Andersson Boscán Pico
Ecuadorian investigative journalist. He co-founded La Posta in 2018 and ran it until December 2025; he led El Gran Padrino, the investigation that brought President Guillermo Lasso to an impeachment trial. Since 2023 he has published from exile in Toronto, Canada, and hosts Boscán & La Moni with Mónica Velásquez.
Almost everything in the Boscán & La Moni archive started with a phone call. The people who come to him are the ones who are fed up: the agents who handed over the Senain's organizational chart, the CELEC technicians who recorded their bosses in a Houston hotel, the witness who recorded Judiciary Council members in a judge's office.
His first trade was print journalism: at Diario Expreso he published La Mancha Dorada, seven installments on the mercury poisoning the rivers of the south, and Caminosca, the private arbitration in the United States in which the sitting vice president appeared under an alias, Vidrio.
In 2018 he co-founded La Posta and ran it until December 2025. That period produced the VIP vaccinations story, which cost the Health Minister his job; Bribery Division, with the ICIJ consortium; and El Gran Padrino, thirty-four installments on how President Lasso's brother-in-law parceled out state-owned companies. For the first time in nearly a century, an Ecuadorian president faced an impeachment trial for corruption.
He left the country in 2023, after threats documented by the Committee to Protect Journalists. He keeps publishing from exile, co-founded the Red de Periodistas Libres (Free Journalists Network) and today hosts Boscán & La Moni.
Awards and honors
- King of Spain Award for Narrative Journalism 2024, for El Gran Padrino
- Gabo Award finalist 2023, Coverage category
- Free Press Awards finalist 2023, Most Resilient Journalist
- Honorable mention, IAPA Awards for Journalistic Excellence 2023
- Fetisov Journalism Awards finalist 2023
- Honorable mention, Javier Valdez Latin American Investigative Journalism Awards 2023 (IPYS)
- Honorable mention, WJP Anthony Lewis Prize 2025
- EPPY Award 2019, for Bribery Division (with ICIJ and McClatchy)
- Medal of Honor for Freedom of Expression, Guayaquil Chamber of Commerce 2019
- Free Press Awards finalist, Newcomer of the Year 2017 and 2019
- Honorable mention, National Union of Journalists of Ecuador 2017, for Caminosca
Fellowships, talks and books
- Fellowship in Journalism, University of Toronto (2024 to 2025)
- Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship, U.S. State Department IVLP program (2019)
- Fratelli Tutti Political School (2021)
- Speaker at the International Anti-Corruption Conference
- Co-author of the book El Gran Padrino (2024)
- Founder of the Free Journalists Network (Red de Periodistas Libres)
- Published in The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the National Post and The BMJ
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Journalism, Universidad Ecotec
- Law degree, Universidad Espíritu Santo (UEES)
Bylined investigations (35)
- 2026The fall of the narco-mayorWhat Leonardo Toledo left behind in case he was killed
- 2026The military school that demanded silenceA chokehold, threats using his ID card and a principal who asked for silence
- 2026Nathaly Mafla's last walkAn hour and twenty minutes to a ravine in La Vicentina, and a case file full of contradictions
- 2026Progen's hidden evidenceThe Progen case evidence the prosecutor locked in a drawer
- 2026Connie Garcés and Carlos KadaThe model, the number two of Los Lagartos and the cartel's police officers
- 2026Srdán, the Serbian drug traffickerThe Serbian who named names: the cooperation agreement the Attorney General's Office keeps under seal
- 2026Narcomilicos: the sailors who stole the drugsThe seizure that was a robbery
- 2026The Albanian mafia in soccerHow money is laundered on Ecuador's soccer fields
- 2026The mayor of Playas and the narco's checksWhat we reported in January; on October 30 they raided his home
- 2026Narco babiesMicaela Morales, Wendy Landa, Bryan Soria and the money of Marino's inner circle
- 2026The Willy recordingsThe leader of Los Tiguerones explains how he made deals with the government and the police
- 2025The fall of Mario GodoyThe recordings that proved the Judiciary Council was applying pressure in favor of drug trafficking
- 2025The newborns of the Hospital UniversitarioTwelve deaths acknowledged, eighteen reported and a bacterium in the neonatal ward
- 2025The Briones dynastySix dead, a port and the ship nobody seizes
- 2025The fall of FitoThe bunker, the letter, the video call and the plane to Brooklyn
- 2025The cardboard vestsThe Loffredo purchase the Attorney General's Office ended up investigating
- 2024FV's secret filesWhat Fernando Villavicencio's phone held
- 2024The Albanian mafia's companiesThe cartel's legal businesses and the Attorney General's Office that did nothing
- 2023El Gran PadrinoNarco-politics in the Lasso government
- 2022The minister who sold jobsThe Energy Minister's recordings
- 2022Ítalo Cedeño: the manager's wifeThe Petroecuador manager who admitted on air that his wife had influence
- 2022The Danubio case: customs for saleThe sale of customs posts
- 2022Orders from the Judiciary CouncilCouncil members, pressured judges and a request made in the president's name
- 2022UkraineSpecial coverage from the war
- 2021The godmother and the narco-generalsThe generals who shut down León de Troya and the commander the drug traffickers called the godmother
- 2021Paz o PlomoThe first time anyone entered the cellblocks without state custody
- 2021VIP vaccinationsWho jumped the vaccine line
- 2020Morales's silver bulletThe contracts of the Guayas prefect's family
- 2019Bribery Division: Odebrecht's secret filesThe leak of Odebrecht's bribes across Latin America
- 2019Ministry of DeathFaulty HIV tests and rotten purchases at the Health Ministry
- 2018Beyond one or a few livesThe 45 seconds of the COSEPE meeting that contradicted the president during the kidnapping of three journalists
- 2018Normita, the collectorKickbacks in the National Assembly
- 2018ConspiraInThe leadership of Rommy Vallejo's Senain, name by name
- 2017CaminoscaThe first prosecutorial investigation into Vice President Jorge Glas
- 2016La Mancha DoradaAn investigation into illegal mining and mercury in the country's south