Background
She was born in Saviñao in Galicia and came to Belgium at the age of eight.
She was born in Saviñao in Galicia and came to Belgium at the age of eight.
She was associate editor-in-chief for the Belgian television chain RTL-TVI. She first worked in broadcasting in 1982 on the Radio Contact radio station. Not content to simply report the news, she organized a human chain around the Berlaymont building in Brussels to call attention to ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. She showed the Belgian public the plight of the missing in Chile and the victims of genocide in Rwanda.
Armesto died of cancer at the age of 46.