Joaquín López-Dóriga

Joaquín López-Dóriga Velandia (Madrid, February 7, 1947) is a naturalized Mexican Spanish news anchor and journalist. He was the owner of El noticiero , on Televisa. The informative program was broadcast between 2000 and 2016. Since 1998 he has been married to Teresa Adriana Pérez Romo and has three children: Joaquín, Adriana and María José López-Dóriga.

Career

At the age of 20 he began working as a journalist for El Heraldo de México in 1968 and 2 years later he joined Jacobo Zabludovsky's 24-hour newscast, where he served as chief information officer. In 1969 he studied law at the Anáhuac University, although he never completed said degree.

In 1977 he joined the magazine Siempre! and the following year he was named general director of News and Special Events of Canal 13, the Mexican state television station, and of Imevisión. In 1981 he founded the magazine Response and the radio program Responses. Between 1988 and 2003, he collaborated with the newspaper El Heraldo de México. From 1998 to 1999, he was general director and host of the investigative journalistic program Chapultepec 18 .

He has been a war correspondent in Vietnam, the Middle East and Bangladesh. He covered the coup d'état against President Salvador Allende in 1973 in Chile, at the hands of General Augusto Pinochet and the death of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, as well as that of Popes Paul VI and John Paul I, in addition to the electoral processes of the Popes John Paul I, John Paul II and Francis.

Throughout his career he has interviewed the likes of Yasser Arafat, Ronald Reagan, James Carter, Fidel Castro, Salvador Allende, Julius Nyerere, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, Carlos Fuentes, José Saramago, Indira Gandhi, Alberto Fujimori, Hillary Clinton, the Mexican presidents Luis Echeverría, José López Portillo, Miguel de la Madrid, Carlos Salinas, Ernesto Zedillo, Vicente Fox, Felipe Calderón, Enrique Peña Nieto and Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

He was a host on Multivisión.

Since May 3, 1994, he has hosted the radio news program López-Dóriga, broadcast by Radio Formula.

From April 3, 2000 to August 19, 2016 he was host of the nightly newscast of El Canal de las Estrellas, owned by Televisa, also broadcast by Galavisión, a channel operated by Univision Communications in the United States, titled El newscast with Joaquín López-Dóriga, replacing The newscast with Guillermo Ortega. After leaving the nightly newscast, during 2016, López-Dóriga hosted the second season of the program Chapultepec 18 —canceled that year— and began hosting the debate program If they tell me I don't come .

From 2006 to 2019, he participated as a panelist in the analysis program Tercer grado, on Noticieros Televisa, sharing the screen with Mexican journalists and political scientists, such as Denise Maerker, Carlos Loret de Mola, Ciro Gomez Leyva, Raymundo Riva Palacio, Leo Zuckermann and others.

He is a contributor to Milenio Diario, where he writes the column "In private". As of January 10, 2011, he ventures into journalistic work through social networks.

Recognitions

• National Journalism Award in 1977 for the genre of interview and in 1981 for better reporting by the program Between two fires.
• José Pagés Llergo National Communication Award Always! in 2005 and 2010.
• Aztec Gold Calendar in 1998 and 2003 by the Mexican Association of Radio and Television Journalists (AMPRYT), for their radio and television programs López-Dóriga and Chapultepec 18.
• Best columnist of the year in 1999 by Association of Daily Newspaper Editors of the Mexican Republic A. C. (AEDIRMEX).
• Bernal Diaz del Castillo and Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta Awards at the XXXI National Journalism Contest of 2001 for chronic and more timely information.
• Silver Wings National Prize to the highlights of the media of 2003.
• First Mexico Journalism Award in the category of interview by the Federation of Mexican Journalists' Associations A. C. (FAPERMEX).
• In July 2009, the magazine Mexican leaders He gives him a recognition for being one of the three hundred most influential leaders in Mexico.
• He is a member of the National Academy in 2005 for his leadership in journalism in Mexico.
• The Mexican Society of Geography and Statistics of the State of Mexico granted the scroll to the national journalistic merit Ignacio Ramírez, the Nigromante.
• In March 2009, the magazine Who? He gives him a recognition for being one of the country's fifty most influential personalities.
• INEGI’s Television News Award in September 2015 for “The Administrative Record in Mexico”, transmitted in The news with Joaquín López-Dóriga.

Controversies

Interview with Irma Serrano

• On 7 April 2000, López-Dóriga interviewed in The news with Joaquín López-Dóriga to the actress and then senator, Irma Serrano for a conflict that held the previous day in the plenary of the House of Senators against her president, Dionisio Pérez Jácome, who ended up in an insult prophesied by Serrano to the president of the Senate. During the interview, Serrano expressed her dislike with Perez Jácome and other members of the House, but when the interview was closed, the senator spoke and for no reason tachoed the journalist "priist".

Incident with Eduardo Andrade

• On 1 December 2000, López-Dóriga organized a special broadcast The news on the occasion of the inauguration of then President Vicente Fox. In the panel were the political analyst, Jaime Sánchez Susarrey; the National Action Party Senator, Diego Fernández de Cevallos and the former presidential candidate for Social Democracy, Gilberto Rincón Gallardo. In the midst of the live broadcast, the then federal deputy of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, Eduardo Andrade Sánchez, suddenly broke into the study, called for the word "alcoholic breath" and deliberately accused Televisa and other national media of not giving television spaces to their party. López-Dóriga was disconcerted, offered a chair to Andrade and, minutes later, he sat down to take a reply, the same one that was allowed by the journalist. Days later, Andrade acknowledged that his attitude had not been correct in the López-Dóriga program and ended up offering a public apology for this incident.

Interview with Mario Marín Torres

• On February 15, 2006, shortly before starting an interview with the then governor of Puebla, Mario Marín Torres (after the publication of a conversation between Marin and the businessman Kamel Nacif Borge where he congratulates Marin for having collaborated in the arrest — in December 2005 — of the journalist Lydia Cacho, following the accusation of Cacho towards Nacif for being an alleged member of a network of pederastia), López-D The interview was retaken by various opinion leaders from all the press. The disclosure of the conversation between Marín Torres and Nacif Borge subsequently resulted in an investigation of the governor for influence trafficking that same year and ended in 2007 when the Supreme Court of Justice ruled for Marin and concluded that there was no serious human rights violation against Cacho, a decision was harshly criticized by the press.

Incident with the magazine Proceso and el Grande

• 1 December 2010 The news with Joaquín López-Dórigaa report on a possible agreement between the magazine Process, specifically between journalist Ricardo Ravelo, and the drug trafficker—previously detained— Sergio Villareal Barragán, the Great. One day later Process He answered and accused Noticieros Televisa of mounting a "low coup" against him of something that was left only in sayings, because during the night news he founded each of the points of the report.

Interview with Anthony Hopkins On February 15, 2011, during an interview that the actor Anthony Hopkins gave to Joaquín López-Dóriga on the occasion of the promotion in Mexico of the film El rito, there were technical problems for the journalist to make his work properly. Due to technical mishaps, the journalist had to conduct the interview without a translator, something that led to him making a mistake and gaining the sympathy of the Hollywood actor. This fact went viral and even the journalist himself sympathetically accepted his mistake.

Soccer scoreboard during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil On June 15, 2014, Joaquín López-Dóriga became a trend on the social network Twitter when, at the end of the match between the teams of Argentina and Bosnia and Herzegovina (in the framework of the 2014 Soccer World Cup), he published on his The tweet says: «It ended in #Río Argentina 2 Serbia 1», an error that he accepted and, minutes later, corrected.

Photo on Twitter during the 2014 Soccer World Cup On June 17, 2014, Joaquín López-Dóriga was a trend on Twitter when, during the match between the Brazilian and Mexican national teams, two photographs were leaked on that social network in which the driver can be seen watching that match on channel 7. from TV Azteca; which caused the president of Grupo Salinas, Ricardo Salinas Pliego, to retweet a tweet of his authorship that reads: "Everyone watching #Azteca The voice of the World Cup pic.twitter.com/83mEafzrLM >> Even the competition prefers #Aztecarioca! Faced with this provocation, López-Dóriga responded to Salinas Pliego and Mario San Román, CEO of Azteca, with a tweet with the text: «Look @RicardoBSalinas not even with the photo, reality prevailed: Ratings of #MEX-#BRA Televisa thrashes TvAzteca. Greetings", along with a link that leads to Ciro Gómez Leyva's column in the newspaper Milenio in which it was shown that Televisa had a larger audience during and after the broadcast of the football match.

Opinion on Donald Trump On June 17, 2015, after the then Secretary of Foreign Affairs José Antonio Meade Kuribreña rejected a controversial statement by the candidate for the presidency of the United States, Donald Trump, about Mexican immigrants issued the day before; López-Dóriga concluded this news by commenting: «I insist: Donald Trump is an opportunist, he is a cretin and, if I go to the dictionary, he is an idiot (...) And I don't say it as an insult, but as a spoken portrait ». A gesture that seemed like a legitimate defense of an opinion leader

Missight of the news production team On August 12, 2015, while commenting on the announcement by the governor of the Bank of Mexico, Agustín Carstens, about the reduction in the growth forecast for that country; The image suddenly went from the video of said announcement to Joaquín López-Dóriga himself without being notified that he was going to the frame, so the journalist had an unusual gesture that derived from an error that commonly happens in live programs. Upon noticing his mistake, he apologized to the audience and continued with the newscast.

Legal complaint with María Asunción Aramburuzabala On August 21, 2015, the newspaper Reforma published a news story in which the owner of the Abilia real estate company, owned by María Asunción Aramburuzabala (considered by the magazine Forbes as the richest woman in Mexico), reported alleged extortion by the journalist's wife. This accusation would be archived after the alleged extortion was not proven.

The journalist categorically rejected the accusations against his wife. Although that was not the only accusation that López-Dóriga received, he was also accused of making telephone threats against Arambuzabala, this fact was denied by the journalist. Even a first instance judge had ruled that no extortion had been committed.

As for the trial, it is still open and the judge has brought both parties to testify.

Journalism vs. democracy On May 22, 2018, Javier Náñez Pro, representative before the National Electoral Institute of the independent candidate for the presidency of Mexico Jaime Heliodoro Rodríguez Calderón, el Bronco, denounced Joaquín López through social networks. Dóriga of censuring the independent candidate for the Presidency of the Republic Jaíme Rodríguez Calderón, after receiving a message from his production removing him from the debates of campaign coordinators on Radiofórmula, which he attributed to the clash between the independent candidate and the journalist on the program television Third grade.

Given this, Joaquín López-Dóriga expresses in his Radio Formula program that he no longer invited the Bronco representative, because he decided so, because his program is «journalistic», and because he "does not do democracy", and immediately disqualifies the presidential candidate Jaime Rodríguez Calderón, by saying that now the table he leads will be «among the coordinators of those who can face the fight for the presidential candidacy, candidates who do have a party, because the other is a filler».

The lie of the simulator train that does not move On December 5, 2021, I broke the news #VIDEO AMLO boasts a trip from CDMX to AIFA in a simulated 'train' on the López-Doriga Digital portal, he also published a tweet with the text: «They uploaded @lopezobrador_ in a simulator. And he gave it as real. Thus #4-T. And all happy. "The car doesn't even move," he assumed it was a simulator when an obvious zoom change in the camera blurs the windows and makes the outside view of the windows disappear. The defamatory note became relevant since it was shared by former president Felipe Calderón., soon began to clarify their lie with videos and comments that clearly demonstrated the lack of journalistic ethics, since corroborating the data was a basic question of journalism and even more so when it arises from an assumption, the bias is evident, the SDP news portal published his clarification "López-Dóriga has already apologized for the lie about the simulator, and when will Calderón?"