Gabriel Schwarb is the founding director and editor in chief of AcidReport. The outlet operates as a non-profit association, governed by Article 60 of the Swiss Civil Code, with no political affiliation, no advertising and no external funding. It publishes in Spanish, French and English, and covers Latin America and Europe as a mirror, each continent explained through the other. It does not publish to please. It publishes to answer.
He was born between borders and grew up between languages, amid the collapse of official narratives, a third culture individual and Swiss-Colombian writer. He began his professional career in 1993, between Bogotá and Cartagena, in creative and multimedia production. He continued it for more than two decades as an art director and web developer, first in Paris and Dublin, later in Brussels, and finally in Montreux and Morges, once settled in Switzerland. In 2018 he made a deliberate turn toward investigative journalism. He collaborates regularly with outlets such as FAL MAG, in France. Today he devotes his main activity to AcidReport, with more than three decades of accumulated professional practice.
He founded AcidReport from a precise starting point, the conviction that Iván Duque's 2018 victory over Gustavo Petro had not been clean, a suspicion reinforced by the Ñeñe Hernández scandal revealed the following year. The wave of social mobilisation that later marked the Duque government confirmed that same certainty, that of a country whose traditional media let very little of what was actually happening come through. His initial purpose was to inform Europe of what was happening in Colombia.
The first articles were published in English, designed to make translation between languages easier. Soon after, Colombian readers interested in that same account asked for a Spanish version, a logical reaction given local coverage they considered false, and given the scarcity of voices explaining events in detail and with documented sources. That is how the outlet he now directs was born, conceived at first as an information bridge between Colombia and Europe, later widened to all of Latin America, and read today across the entire world.
He builds AcidReport the way an archive is built in a time of ruin, with method, with urgency and with memory. For him, writing is not a literary aspiration. It is a tool of rupture, a space of denunciation and an exercise in sustained lucidity.
His style is direct, analytical, stripped down, closer to dissection than to metaphor. His method combines strict source verification, archival work, OSINT (open source intelligence) and public correction of errors. He believes in the word as a political act, as a form of protection against oblivion and as a possibility of symbolic reparation for those who can no longer speak.
