Later he became a reporter for TVE, where would cover wars such as the Congo (he was sentenced to death for filming the execution of 300 prisoners), Vietnam, Eritrea and Mozambique and events such as the death of Che Guevara (1967) or the Pinochet coup in Chile (1973). Salvador Allende, Pablo Neruda, Indira Gandhi, Haile Selassie, Norodom Sihanouk, Yassir Arafat and the 14th Dalai Lama are among the personalities interviewed by him in his time as a reporter.