As the conductor of the Univision News, Ramos has covered five wars (El Salvador, the Persian Gulf, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq), and numerous historical events.
The terrorist acts of September 11, 2001, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of apartheid in South Africa and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Ibero-American summits, guerrilla movements in Chiapas and Central America and elections on almost the entire continent. Ramos has participated in several presidential debates.
Ramos has interviewed some of the most influential leaders in the world. Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. Sarah Palin, Harry Reid, John McCain, John Edwards, Al Gore, George Bush Sr., John Kerry, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, Felipe Calderon and dozens of Latin American presidents.
LEOPOLIS, Ukraine – Nothing like a war to learn geography, history and how fragile we are. I’ve spent the past few days watching thousands of Ukrainians fleeing the brutal Russian invasion. But it is the children who literally broke my heart.
LOS ANGELES – The Uber driver who took me to the restaurants was totally protected.
MAHE, Seychelles Islands – Who hasn’t said it? “I want to be on an island with nothing to do.” I said it many times, especially in times of too much work, stress and conflict. Well, it happened to me.
If 2020 was a cursed year, 2021 was one of disillusionment, because it promised more than it could really deliver. Even so, I am betting on a hopeful 2022.
At first we didn’t even know how to greet each other. From a distance, or with a handshake? With the mask on or off? My Argentine friends, who usually kiss on the cheek, had it even more complicated.
(This is part of my speech during the ceremony for the Voltaire Prize awarded by the International Publishers Association during the marvelous Guadalajara Book Fair)
Everything went wrong for the Cuban dictatorship. It thought it was going to win when it militarized the island and blocked the marches and protests scheduled for Nov. 15.
Mark Zuckerberg can be accused of many things. But not of timid ideas. The founder of Facebook thinks big, and has managed to get nearly 3 billion people to connect monthly to his social platform, the biggest in a planet that has about 8 billion people.
On November 3rd, I will mark 35 years as the anchorman for the Spanish-language Univision network’s daily newscast (Noticiero Univision) in the United States. That was never my plan.
The city that never sleeps was sleeping. Or at least it looked that way at the new and magnificent terminal at the Laguardia airport after midnight.