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.
Dec. 2 was a typical day for me. I woke up early, due to jet lag. I sweated my way through a yoga class, paid some bills, wrote a bit, returned some calls, then went to the studio to interview chef José Andrés about the ways that food can change the world. A few hours later, I was on television, reporting on that day’s massacre, this time in San Bernardino, California.
PARIS — This city, one of the most beautiful and civilized in the world, is not the place you’d expect gunmen to stand outside a café and spray diners with bullets.
To many who live or dream of living here, the United States is the land of opportunity. They’re largely right. We’ve all heard the stories of how very poor Americans worked hard, rose up and became millionaires. However, opportunity is becoming harder to come by as the nation becomes a land for the superrich.
“I’m Just A Journalist Who Asks Questions”
After my encounter with Donald Trump a couple of months ago, many people have asked me: are you a journalist or an activist?
It’s not hard to understand why Republican presidential candidates have recently attacked immigrants. Some Americans feel a sense of unease …
I have many friends in Colombia who have not seen a day of peace in all their lives — not one single day. But that may be changing soon, as an end to the country’s decadeslong civil war seems to be within reach.
“Times like no other for botched jobs, unpunished crimes and witch hunts.” — Joan Manuel Serrat
After 43 Mexican college students from Ayotzinapa went missing a year ago, President Enrique Peña Nieto’s administration started telling an official lie about their disappearance. Today, that lie has been exposed.
In recent years, I’ve been in some pretty hot and steamy places in the middle of summer — the Caribbean and India, for instance, or Miami, where I live — and I constantly find myself shivering.
We Americans are consumers, surrounded by products. Therefore, each of us has to make a choice that defines our lives: whether to hoard useless things or to discard them. I’ve been always inclined toward the second option.
Hola, soy el papá de Paola. I’m Paola´s dad and I’m very proud to say that. Many people think that the American dream is gone. I can’t blame them. It’s been very tough in this country for many people for a long time. But maybe they don’t have a daughter, like me, who is graduating today from Harvard.