As a television journalist, he was recruited by the WAPA-TV channel 4 of San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1981, becoming the first black Puerto Rican to work as a TV reporter. During his 32 years as a TV journalist, he had won more than 100 awards from several organizations in Puerto Rico and the United States, including awards for the coverage of hurricanes and investigative reports like Red Alert 1 and 2, in which he uncovered the military use of the Vieques island and the effects of army maneuvers on the population. He also uncovered an incident of a nuclear bomb falling in waters near the island in 1966, which the USA government had kept secret for 34 years. He is the only reporter who ever reached the remains of the plane crash, where baseball star, Roberto Clemente, died at 180 ft under the Atlantic Ocean around the beaches of San Juan.