José-María Siles

José-María Siles (born November 1, 1951 in Almería , Spain ) is a Spanish journalist and news analyst. He was the foreign correspondent for Spanish television TVE in Germany, Morocco , the United States and the European Union .

Life

In constant dispute with state censorship, his two contributions to the Independent Documentary Filmmaking Movement were nonetheless seen by a wider audience. The program “Buenos días, Portugal” (1975) is a travel documentary about the Carnation Revolution ( revolução dos cravos ), which ended a long dictatorship in Portugal. “Anticrónica de un pueblo” (1974–1975) shows everyday life in the remote village of Topares in rural Andalusia , where Siles was a village school teacher. The story of Doña Maria Serrano, the oldest inhabitant of Topares, who asked General Franco in writing for help, gave him the impetus to investigate and publicize the social reality in neglected regions of Spain using the example of Topares. In Topares there was no drinking water supply, no access road, no telephone and no health care.

Siles was a signatory of the Alternative Cinema Manifesto (Almería, Spain, 1975), which was directed against the Franco regime. The signatories were members from culture and especially from film, the aim was to defend freedom and democracy in Spain.

After passing his state examination in communication studies, Silas worked at the Autonomous University of Barcelona , for the Spanish news of Radio France Internationale , for El País and El Periódico de Catalunya in Paris . In 1984 he started working as a reporter for Spanish television, TVE and as a correspondent in Germany. On November 9, 1989, he was the first Spanish journalist to report live about the fall of the Berlin Wall . After the reunification of Germany , he was sent to Rabat to open a correspondent's office . From 1992 he worked as a war correspondent in Bosnia for TVE during the siege of Sarajevo . Two years later he was appointed director of public television in Andalusia .

In 1996 he was called to Berlin to report on the countries of Northern and Central Europe . Since 1999 he has been TVE's chief correspondent in the United States . From New York and Washington he returned to Brussels as head of the TVE office to cover the European Union and NATO . His last assignments for TVE as a foreign correspondent were the news and reports on the conflicts in the Congo , Haiti and the 2006 Lebanon war .

José-María Siles is now the director of aNews TV, the correspondent agency , in Paris.

Web links

• José-María Siles' professional profile on LinkedIn
• José-María Siles in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Agency for Speakers and Entertainers