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July 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
With his high energy and broad smile, Mr Montano made scores of friends within
weeks after his arrival in the Mexican capital.
“Armando was a smart, joyful, hardworking and talented young man,”
said Marjorie Miller, AP’s Latin America editor based in Mexico City.
“He absolutely loved journalism and was soaking up everything he could,”
said Ms Miller. “In his short time with the AP, he won his way into
everyone’s hearts with his hard work, his effervescence and his love of the
profession.”
In December and January, Mr Montano covered the Iowa presidential caucuses as
a news intern for The New York Times, and last year worked for several
months as an intern covering policy and finance for The Chronicle of Higher
Education in Washington, DC.
“Mando was a standout young journalist, with a rare passion and
exuberance for life and for people,” said Richard Berke, an assistant
managing editor at The New York Times. “He accomplished so much and
touched so many in a short time, and his potential was truly limitless.”
Mr Berke said that he arranged to have Montano help cover the caucuses because
he was so impressed with the young reporter when they met earlier at the New
York Times Student Journalism Institute in Tucson, Arizona.
Kathleen Carroll, executive editor of the AP, said, “The loss of this
vibrant young journalist is a shock to his colleagues and the long list of
people who called Armando friend.”
Mr Montano had also been a multimedia and reporting intern at The Colorado
Independent, an online news service; and a reporting and investigative
intern at The Seattle Times.
At the Scarlet Black, Grinnell College’s student newspaper in Grinnell,
Iowa, he worked as an editor and writer.
Mr Montano was the recipient of an Ellen Masin Persina Scholarship from the
National Press Club in 2008; a Newhouse Scholar with the National
Association of Hispanic Journalists in 2008; and a Chips Quinn Scholar from
the Freedom Forum for Diversity in 2011. He belonged to the National
Association of Hispanic Journalists and the National Association of Gay and
Lesbian Journalists.
Born in Massachusetts, Mr Montano was a fluent Spanish speaker who grew up in
Colorado but lived for two years as a child in Costa Rica and spent time in
Argentina and on the US-Mexico border with his family.
He is survived by his parents, Diane Alters and Mario Montano, of Colorado
Springs, who both teach at Colorado College.
Source: agencies
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