Jorge Ramos will no longer be the face of Univision. After 38 years as the anchor of Noticiero Univision, the Spanish-language network in the United States announced this Monday that both parties “have reached a mutual agreement not to renew the contract” of the journalist of Mexican origin. “Ramos will leave his role as co-anchor of Noticiero Univision at the end of 2024, after the presidential elections in the United States,” Univision specified in a statement. “This is not a goodbye. I will continue to present Noticiero Univision until December, and then I will share my professional plans. I am deeply grateful for these four decades at Univision and very proud to be part of a team that has established solid leadership over the years,” said Ramos.
Ramos, born 66 years ago in Mexico City, began his journalistic career in his native country. He worked in local radio stations and on the news program for Televisa, Mexico’s main television network, until 1982, a year that would mark his life and professional career forever. After Televisa censored one of his reports, in which Ramos was critical of the government of then Mexican President José López Portillo, Ramos decided to emigrate to the United States. Thus, in 1983 he became another Mexican immigrant who had just landed on American soil.
He joined Univision two years later, in 1985, and the rest is history. From the podium at Univision, Ramos has become the most important Spanish-language anchor in the country, as the immigrant population of Latin American origin in the United States has grown and gained importance. Under Ramos, Noticiero Univisión has become the most-watched Spanish-language news program in the United States, attracting more than 2 million people each night. In addition to the newscast, Ramos has also hosted Noticiero Univisión since 2007. To the pointa weekly program broadcast every Sunday.
During his career, he has interviewed world leaders such as Nicolás Maduro, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. He has covered more than a handful of wars and reported on many of the most significant events of the modern era, such as the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and the 2020 election of Donald Trump, the only American president who has declined an interview with him. With the current presidential candidate for the Republican Party, Ramos has had more than one tense exchange. In one of them, in 2015, Ramos was physically removed from a press conference of the then-candidate after the journalist asked him about his claims — baseless and which he continues to repeat — that Mexicans arriving in the United States were “criminals” and “rapists.”
That altercation was the beginning of a relationship marked by mutual criticism that continues to this day. Ramos, whose status as an immigrant has always stressed, despite being a US citizen since 2008, has continually clashed with the xenophobic and anti-immigration policies of the former president and now candidate for the White House. The journalist has accused Trump of “spreading hatred” and of being “a serious threat to the democracy of the United States,” as he indicated in an interview with EL PAÍS last May. In another interview with this newspaper, published in 2020, days before the last presidential elections between Trump and Joe Biden, Ramos blamed the Republican for having turned the United States “into a more racist country, one that discriminates against immigrants. A country where the possibility of consensus has ended.”
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