Juan Carlos Guardela Vásquez (San Juan Nepomuceno, Bolívar) is a social communicator, chronicler and university professor. He has worked in the press, radio and television. He studied law at the University of Cartagena, is a social communicator of the UNAD, and also studied philosophy and literature at the University of Santo Tomas. In 2011 he completed a master's degree in Communication at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. He has attended workshops and seminars of the Foundation for a New Ibero-American Journalism sponsored by Gabriel García Márquez. He has been a contributor to the magazines Semana, Soho and El Malpensante. He was a journalist for the newspapers El Universal and El Periódico de Cartagena. He was head of press for the Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento, CODHES (Consultancy for Human Rights and Displacement). He has directed several documentaries for the TeleCaribe series Trópicos. Finalist of the III Iberoamerican Award of New Journalism FNPI-CEMEX with the chronicle "Un viaje a la indolencia" published in the magazine El Malpensante. He has published, among others, the books of chronicles El edén vencido (2020) and Lo que va a sanar espanta (2011). He was anthologized in "Lo mejor del periodismo de América Latina" with prologue by Tomás Eloy Martínez and published by Editorial Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE), 2006.