Silvia Corzo

Silvia Milena Corzo Pinto (Bucaramanga, October 30, 1973) is a Colombian lawyer, journalist, businesswoman, lecturer and presenter. She is the daughter of Mario Corzo and Irene Pinto, her. She studied Law at the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga.

Career in the media

After completing his university studies, he presented a program on human rights on the radio station of the Universidad Industrial de Santander, while working in the office of the Ombudsman in Bucaramanga. In 1997, he was offered to host a similarly themed television show on the then newly emerged regional channel TRO.

After marrying Hernando Toro, also a lawyer, she moved to Cali, where she worked in the Comptroller's Office of that city, verifying the status of public works carried out there. At the same time, on weekends she presented the Noticiero del Pacífico, from the regional channel Telepacífico.

A new transfer from her husband took her to Bogotá, where she began her work as a presenter for the 7 am broadcast on Caracol Noticias (today Noticias Caracol) on December 16, 2002. In the following years, Silvia rotated through all the schedules, and then she established herself regularly in the morning and noon editions, but temporarily withdrew from the newscast on February 4, 2002. 2008. On March 12, he returned to present the ten o'clock broadcast, where he remained until October 26, 2009. The following month, thanks to an agreement that prevented his resignation from the channel, he went to Present the broadcast at 12:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. On March 14, 2011, she was again assigned to Noticias Caracol in the morning, now from 6:30 to 8:15, where she was until the day of her definitive withdrawal from Canal Caracol, on April 28, 2011.

At the beginning of 2006, he presented the news program El Mundo Hoy, in the company of Isaac Nessim, an informative program produced by Caracol Televisión for its partner channel WGEN-TV from Key West in the United States. Silvia was also in charge between 2007 and 2011, together with Manuel Teodoro, of conducting the journalistic Séptimo día, and from 2009 to 2011, of the legal consultation section called En todo su derecho, broadcast on Noticias Caracol for the weekend. Código Caracol, section of the central evening broadcast, specialized in brief political news. For a few days, in March 2010, she replaced Jorge Alfredo Vargas in the presentation of El radar, Parallel to her work in front of the cameras, she was a legal adviser for Canal Caracol.

On March 15, 2011, she made official through her Twitter account, and hours later in an interview with the station W Radio, the confirmation of the rumor according to which she had been hired as a presenter to replace María Cristina Uribe in Noticias Uno starting in June, when Uribe would settle in the United States, because her husband Daniel Coronell was named vice president of news for Univisión. On June 4, 2011, she debuted in the presentation of Noticias Uno . As of February 18, 2013, he took over the direction and presentation of the debate program Veredicto. On October 31, 2014, Julio Sánchez Cristo from W Radio Colombia revealed that Corzo had finally reached an agreement with the Channel RCN to be linked to this medium as part of the new journalistic program Cuatro Caminos, which in its first broadcasts, was opposite Séptimo día, from Canal Caracol. On August 10, 2015, she debuted as a presenter in the stellar edition of Noticias RCN, and after the resignation of Vicky Dávila, on August 25 Silvia was ratified as the head of the presentation of said space. On April 30, 2016, the information was released that there had been irrevocably waived.

During the second half of 2016, she worked as a professor at the Sergio Arboleda University. In interviews with Blu Radio and the program La Red, Silvia explained the reasons she had for leaving the university. news presenter and that he turned down several offers to return, adding that he did not plan to return to television. In dialogue with the magazine Carrusel , she pointed out that the only way she would present a news program on television again would be if it was dedicated to telling only good news.

On January 17, 2017, his official website went live, and on February 1, he told his followers on Instagram and Twitter that he would have a show on W Radio, which was not broadcast at the time. In July 2017, he appeared in the promotional campaign for the new programming on Channel 1, and on August 11 his debut was made official on the 14th of the same month in the morning program Primera hora. On August 31, 2018, he withdrew from the channel citing personal reasons, as confirmed a few days later through his social networks. Almost a year later, on June 11, 2019, RCN reported on his entry into the morning program El breakfast, in a section of advice for daily life. After the cancellation of said program, Silvia continued in the space that replaced it, called Nuestra Casa. On September 18, 2019, she began her participation in "W Talks", on W Radio, Wednesdays at 10 p.m. m. her Between June 2020 and February 2022 she presented the program & # 34; Todo Bajo Control & # 34;, of the Comptroller General of the Republic on the Institutional Channel of public television.

Awards and recognitions

Personal life

Silvia Corzo separated from Hernando Toro in mid-2004. She currently lives with her son, Pablo Toro (b. 2001). Subsequently, she married the journalist Andrés Mora in a civil ceremony in December 2006, and from whom she divorced in 2008. For a little over a year, from the beginning of 2015 to mid-2016, her partner was the photographer Mauricio Vélez. Later, in April 2017, it was learned of her relationship with businessman Luis "Tumy" Pomegranates.

Since 2007, she has taken an active part in social causes, such as the campaign against breast cancer, through the so-called "Partido por la vida", in which television figures participate, with the in order to raise funds and raise awareness about the prevention and treatment of this disease. In November 2012, Silvia participated in a bike path, organized by the Interagency Gender Group of the United Nations System in Colombia, as part of the global initiative to reject violence against women.

In 2010, she gave a brief interview for the Madres Famosas edition of Playboy Colombia magazine. During an interview for the telemagazine "Más Mujer" He commented how in 2007, he contracted, faced, and overcame chronic fatigue syndrome. Faced with a possible relapse, as he pointed out in the program Confessions, chapters of life on the TV Centro de Telmex channel, he requested a three-month license (although Caracol only approved two), which is why he was absent from the screens in November and December 2010, a stage that he also took advantage of to treat some kidney problems.

In July 2021, he launched his first book, called "El Juego", in which he proposes 77 transcendental pieces of advice that connect with the interior of each person, and which, according to what he said, is the product of a compilation of ten years of own testimonies and experiences of third parties.