Marie-Rose Armesto (1960 – 23 January 2007) was a Spanish-born Belgian journalist. She was associate editor-in-chief for the Belgian television chain RTL-TVI.[1]
Armesto was born in Saviñao in Galicia and came to Belgium at the age of eight, first broadcasting in 1982 on the Radio Contact radio station. She joined RTL-TVI in September 1987, eventually becoming head reporter for the chain in partnership with Jean-Pierre Martin.[1] They married in 1984.[2]
Armesto organized a human chain around the Berlaymont building in Brussels to call attention to ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.[3] She publicized the plight of the missing in Chile and the victims of genocide in Rwanda. She considered Islamic terrorism the new fascism.[4] In 2002, she published "Son mari a tué Massoud", based on an interview with the wife of one of Ahmad Shah Massoud's assassins.[3]
Armesto died of cancer at the age of 46.[1]