Jorge Ramos | |
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.jpg) Ramos speaker forNASA's Hispanic Education Campaign, January 2010 | |
| Born | Jorge Gilberto Ramos Ávalos (1958-03-16)March 16, 1958 (age 67) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Citizenship | American, Mexican[1][2][3] |
| Education | Ibero-American University (BA) University of Miami (MA) |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, author, activist |
| Employer | Univision (1985–2024) |
| Notable credit(s) | Noticiero Univision co-anchor (1987–2024) Al Punto host (2007–2024) Fusion host (2013–2021) |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 2, includingPaola Ramos |
| Website | jorgeramos |
Jorge Gilberto Ramos Ávalos (Spanish pronunciation:[ˈxoɾxeˈramos]; born March 16, 1958) is a Mexicanjournalist andauthor. Regarded as the best-known Spanish-language news anchor in the United States of America,[4] he has been referred to as "TheWalter Cronkite of Latin America".[5][6] Based inMiami, Florida, he anchored theUnivision news television programNoticiero Univision, the Univision Sunday-morning political news programAl Punto, and theFusion TV English-language programAmerica with Jorge Ramos. He has covered five wars, and events ranging from thefall of the Berlin Wall[7] to theWar in Afghanistan.[8]
Ramos has won tenEmmy Awards[citation needed] and theMaria Moors Cabot Prize for excellence in journalism.[9][10] He has also been included onTime magazine's list of "The World's Most Influential People".[11]
Jorge Gilberto Ramos Ávalos was born on March 16, 1958, inMexico City,Mexico,[7][12] to aRoman Catholic family,[13] and he was raised in the Bosques de Echegaray neighborhood ofNaucalpan, a suburb of Mexico City.[14] His father was an architect.[15] He attended Catholic schools where he states he was abused by the priests.[15]
Ramos graduated from theUniversidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City where he majored in communications.[14] Ramos has a Master's degree in International Studies from theUniversity of Miami. In 2007, theUniversity of Richmond conferred an honorary Doctor of Letters on him.[citation needed]
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Ramos worked forGrupo Televisa's flagshipXEW-TV in Mexico City for the network's local version of60 Minutes. At the age of 24, he quit that job after a story he produced that was critical of Mexico's government was censored.[14] In 1983, he left Mexico on a student visa forLos Angeles, where he planned to enroll in theUCLA Extension's journalism classes. In 1984, he was hired byKMEX-TV, an affiliate of what was then the Spanish International Network (SIN) in Los Angeles, which operated on a shoestring budget in a run-down facility onMelrose Avenue. At KMEX, Ramos felt he could express himself freely: "To me it was a palace... the United States gave me opportunities that my country of origin could not: freedom of the press and complete freedom of expression."[2] Three years later, he became the host for KMEX's morning program,Mundo Latino.[14] In 1987, Ramos then joined SIN's national operation[16] which was rebranded as theUnivision network a year later after coming under new ownership; Univision has a broad entertainment and news-sharing agreement with Televisa.[citation needed]
Since 1987, Ramos has been the anchorman forNoticiero Univision, a nightly Spanish language newscast, alongside colleagueMaría Elena Salinas. He also hostsAl Punto, a Spanish-language Sunday public affairs program aired weekly on Univision, andAmerica with Jorge Ramos, an English language news magazine onFusion TV.[17]
In 1989, as he watched thefall of the Berlin Wall, Ramos has said he remembered thinking, "This is why I am what I am!"[7] Other world events he covered include theSalvadoran Civil War, thePersian Gulf War,[18] thedissolution of the Soviet Union, and the9/11 terrorist attacks.[9] During the United States'sWar in Afghanistan, Ramos traveled there on his own while on vacation because his network refused to send him.[7][8] Throughout his career he has covered five wars.[9]
As of 2014,KMEX-DT his Univision 34 news shows regularly beat their English language competition among young viewers.[17] He has interviewed multiple world leaders includingBarack Obama,George W. Bush,Bill Clinton,George H. W. Bush,Fidel Castro,Daniel Ortega andHugo Chávez.[18]
Ramos also writes a bilingual newspaper column that is published internationally, and appears regularly as a pundit on English-language cable networks, likeCNN andMSNBC. Polls among American Latinos rank him as the most trusted and influential Hispanic in America, surpassing all other political leaders, and hisQ Score among Latino audiences places him between soccer starLionel Messi and pop singerShakira.[17]
In 2002, he foundedDespierta Leyendo (Wake Up Reading), the firstbook club in the history of Spanish-language television.[19]
On February 21, 2008, he represented Univision in aDemocratic debate between SenatorsHillary Clinton andBarack Obama onThe University of Texas at Austin campus inAustin, Texas.[20][21]
In 2012, Ramos, critical of the lack of Latino moderators in any of theU.S. presidential debates, complained that the debate commission was "stuck in the 1950s". When Univision held its own forums with candidatesBarack Obama andMitt Romney, Ramos challenged both of them on theirimmigration policies, specifically Romney's "self-deportation" policy, which Ramos considered an insult to Latinos, and Obama's deportation of more than 1.4 million people, and his reneging on his promise to address immigration during his first term.Washington Monthly named Ramos the broadcaster who would most determine the2012 presidential election. Ramos' increased notability, however, led to criticism of hisadvocacy approach. To this Ramos has stated, "Our position is clearly pro-Latino or pro-immigrant ... We are simply being the voice of those who don't have a voice."[2]
In 2015, afterDonald Trump became a presidential candidate, Ramos pursued an interview with Trump for months. When he sent Trump a handwritten request in June, Trump, who had filed a lawsuit against Univision over its decision to drop theMiss Universe pageant followingthe candidate's comments about Mexican immigrants, posted Ramos's letter onInstagram, whichexposed Ramos's cell phone number.[22][23][24] Trump later deleted the post.[4]
On August 25, 2015, Ramos attended a news conference held inDubuque, Iowa, by Trump. Prior to attending, Ramos studied previous Trump press conferences and discovered a pattern of Trump repetitively interjecting "excuse me" and calling on another reporter when asked a question opposing his beliefs. Due to this knowledge, Ramos refused to sit down and persistently continued questioning Trump about his immigration policies when rebuffed.[25] Ramos insisted on his rights as a reporter and United States citizen to ask a question, prompting Trump's Head of SecurityKeith Schiller to push him backwards out of the conference room.[15] About 15 minutes later, Trump allowed Ramos to return to the conference, where he and Trump engaged in a heated exchange on the issue. Trump later explained that he had not called on Ramos for a question, as he had called on another reporter in the audience. Ramos accused Trump of "spreading hate" with his calls for mass deportations ofundocumented families, and repealingbirthright citizenship, and questioned the feasibility of Trump's proposals. He also questioned Trump's viability as a candidate among Latino voters, citing a poll indicating that 75% of those voters held unfavorable opinions of him,[26][27][28] and projected that Trump would only get 16% of the Latino vote.[29] Election exit polls showed Trump getting 29% of the Hispanic vote, a 13% increase over Ramos's projection. Most Latinos did not vote though. Latino turnout was actually under 50%, even lower than the historically low election turnout overall. It was higher in the prior election since Obama was running.[30]
The press conference incident inspired Ramos to create his documentaryHate Rising focused on increasing incidents of racial bigotry and violence across the country, which aired October 23, 2016, onUnivision andFusion.[31] In preparation for the documentary, Ramos met with members of varioushate groups across the country includingKu Klux Klan members andneo-Nazis, along with Latino and Muslim victims.[32] His journey lasted nine months, often placing him in danger as both an immigrant and a Mexican-American man.[33] In order to gain face time with members ofwhite supremacist groups, Ramos partnered with director Catherine Tambini, an American who the groups were under the impression they would be speaking to, and only right before the interview started did Ramos sit down to ask questions.[34]
In 2016, Ramos began leveragingFacebook Live to stream raw footage taken on his phone to social media audiences, gaining 2.6 million views on hisIowa caucus videos and over four million on his reports during theNew Hampshire primaries.[35]
On February 25, 2019, he was held with his journalistic group in theMiraflores Palace after an interview withNicolás Maduro. After seizing the equipment and interview recordings, he was released hours later and deported from the country. During the interview, Maduro denied there was ahumanitarian crisis inVenezuela, which led Ramos to show Maduro images of Venezuelans eatinggarbage to point out that there was indeed a crisis. After being released, Ramos stated that he and his group were held because this action bothered Maduro. TheInformation Minister of Maduro,Jorge Rodríguez, described the incident as a "cheap show."
On April 12, 2019, his intervention in the morning conference of Mexican presidentAndrés Manuel López Obrador was controversial over the confrontation he held with López Obrador, aroundhomicide figures in Mexico in the period of the administration. The episode opened a debate on the use of figures of malicious homicides in Mexico and its different sources. He interviewedFidel Castro, confrontedObama on deportations, confrontedTrump and is reportedly an admirer ofOriana Fallaci.[36]
On September 9, 2024, Ramos announced that he would depart from Univision following the2024 presidential election, after a 39-year tenure with the network.[37] His last newscast was December 13, 2024.[38]
Ramos earned a master's degree in international studies at theUniversity of Miami in Florida.[2]
In 2008, Ramos became a United States citizen, after many years of feeling personally conflicted over the matter. He had considered himself just another "Mexican with a green card." That year, however, his 50th birthday, he had lived in Mexico 25 years and 25 years in the United States, and came to a realization, explaining, "You have to go through a mental and emotional process to recognize who you really are," Ramos said. "I finally recognized that I cannot be defined by one country. I am from both countries. It took me many years to make peace with that thought, and that I was never going back to Mexico."[2]
Ramos has been married twice. His first wife was Gina Montaner, daughter of exiled Cuban authorCarlos Alberto Montaner; they had one daughter,Paola (born 1988).[39][40] They divorced in 1990 and Paola was raised by her mother in Spain.[41] In 1992, he married Lisa Bolivar in aRoman Catholic ceremony at theCathedral of San Juan Bautista in San Juan, Puerto Rico.[42][43] They had one son, Nicolas, and they divorced in 2005.[44] He datedMexican actressAna de la Reguera,[14] but since 2011, he has been in a relationship withVenezuelan TV host and actressChiquinquirá Delgado,[44][45] who has two daughters from previous relationships.[44] He lives in theCoconut Grove neighborhood ofMiami.[46]
Although raised Roman Catholic, Ramos does not believe in God, calling himself anagnostic.[47][48] He has criticizedPope Francis for presiding over thecanonization ofPope John Paul II, who he believes willingly covered up abuses committed by Catholic priests.[49]
Ramos is registered as an independent voter.[17]
Ramos disclosed in June 2015 that his daughter, Paola Ramos, was working forHillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.[50]
Jorge Ramos has won elevenEmmy Awards[citation needed] and theMaria Moors Cabot Prize for excellence in journalism.[9][10]
In 2015, Ramos was one of the people selected for the five different covers ofTime's issue listing "The World's 100 Most Influential People".[11][51] That same year he was awarded the International Career in Journalism accolade byOndas Awards.[52]
So, like any sensible journalist, I wrote to the new candidate and asked him for an interview. However, instead of answering my letter, he posted it on Instagram along with my phone number. As a result, I received hundreds of hateful calls and texts and I had to change my number.
It turns out Donald Trump doesn't just fire people: He doxes them, too... Trump decided to post a photo on Instagram of a letter sent to him by Univision anchor Jorge Ramos... In the letter, Ramos wrote down his personal cell phone number, which Trump didn't bother to blur out.
Trump's behavior is raising eyebrows, but this isn't even the first time in his month-long campaign that Trump has been accused of doxxing someone. When Univision cancelled his "Miss USA" pageant, he allegedly published a letter on Instagram from Jorge Ramos, the channel's popular anchor, with Ramos's personal cellphone number.
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