Erica Vexler Poreiki (died 30 April 2011[1]) was a Chilean journalist, editor, and television presenter best known for her reporting for the magazine Ercilla – of which she was editor in 1966 and subsequently subeditor until 1970 – and for presenting the program Erika Vexler 600 on Canal 13.
[2] In 1968, the National Association of Women Journalists of Chile [es] presented her with the Lenka Franulic Award, which she shared with Carmen Machado.
[3] In 1970, after the victory of Salvador Allende in the presidential election, she moved to Israel, where she served as a correspondent for Televisa.
[4] Vexler was one of the first journalists to investigate and publish a series of denunciations about the conditions that existed in the former Colonia Dignidad, in co-authorship with Osvaldo Murray and Juan Ehrmann.
[4][5][6] These incited the first judicial inquiry into the colony between 1966 and 1968, without conclusive results.