Journalist and historical war correspondent for Corriere della Sera, Ettore Mo, has died at the age of 91. He was born on April 1, 1932 in Borgomanero.
News of his death spread that night on the website of the Milan newspaper, where Mo had worked since 1962. He has been involved in music and theater for over ten years. In 1979 he began his career as a correspondent, which would make him one of the most important names in war reporting. The then director of the newspaper Via Solferino, Franco Di Bella, sent him from the entertainment department to Tehran in the middle of the Khomeinist revolution. From that moment on he would never stop. From Afghanistan to Nicaragua, from Liberia to Mexico, from Cambodia to Cuba, he became an extraordinary witness to decades of war and conflict.
Mo’s stories, meetings, interviews, all always and only by going first-hand to the places where the events occurred and written in a clear, dry, straightforward style, were a valuable contribution to knowledge about the most remote corners of This is our planet. His stories were often later published in volumes.
