Carmen Aristegui

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Carmen Aristegui (2011)

María del Carmen Aristegui Flores (born January 18, 1964 in Mexico City ) is one of the most famous Mexican journalists and a news anchor on radio and television.

Life

Her father came to Mexico as a child during the Spanish Civil War . She graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and has been a journalist since 1987. In February 1999 she gave birth to a son.

Career

Aristegui appears on various radio and television shows. She has been doing interviews on CNN en Español since 2006 and has been writing a column for the daily Reforma since 2013 .

In February 2011, she made a possible alcohol addiction of President Calderón public, whereupon she was kicked out by the broadcaster MVS. After widespread public protest, it was suspended a few days later.

In 2012 she founded the website AristeguiNoticias.com. She attracted international attention in November 2014 with her investigative research together with Rafael Cabrera, Irving Huerta, Sebastián Barragán and Daniel Lizárraga about the Mexican government under Enrique Peña Nieto , which she published on this website and not on radio or television. In March 2015, she, Lizárraga and Huerta were again terminated by MVS.

Individual evidence

  1. Carolin Fromm: Mexico: The white villa of President Peña Nieto. NDR , August 15, 2016, accessed on August 27, 2016 .