El dieciséis de marzo/March 16th
¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... Jorge Ramos! (1958- )
The anchorman for Noticiero Univisión since 1986 (along with colleague María Elena Salinas, who just recently stepped down after more than three decades), Ramos has covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, five wars (El Salvador, The Persian Gulf, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq), the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, 9/11, and the catastrophe after Hurricane Katrina (read more on Ramos' website, HERE). He has interviewed every U.S. president since George H.W. Bush, except for Donald Trump, who had him kicked out of his press conference in an incident that went viral in 2015 (click HERE). Ramos, who currently lives in Miami, Florida, was born in Mexico City. He studied communications at Universidad Iberoamerica and then started his career at XEW-TV. He resigned in 1983 after the station edited a story of his that included interviews with people critical of the Mexican government. He then went to Los Angeles on a student visa to study journalism through UCLA's extension program, and while there he was hired by KMEX-TV, Spanish language network in Los Angeles. That job led to his anchor position for Noticiero Univisión, which has been the constant in his career of nearly four decades. Ramos, who holds a Masters Degree in International Studies from the University of Miami, has described himself as an advocate for immigrants and considers it his role to advocate for the powerless while always questioning those in power. This excellent 2015 profile in The New Yorker describes the root of his penchant for challenging authority as his troubled relationship with the three main authorities of his childhood: his father, the Catholic priests at his schools, and the Mexican government. Ramos has won 8 Emmy Awards for his work as well as a Maria Moors Cabot Prize for excellence in journalism. He just published his 13th book, Stranger: The Challenge of a Latino Immigrant in the Trump Era, and in addition to his work on Noticiero Univisión hosts Al Punto, a Sunday public affairs program, and America with Jorge Ramos, an English language program on the network Fusion (see his visit with Conan O'Brien in Mexico City from a segment on that network, HERE). Ramos has two children, Paola, from his first marriage, and Nicolas, from his second marriage. He has been with Chiquinquirá Delgado, who works on Nuestra Belleza Latina at Univisión, since 2011.
For resources for teaching Spanish, Level 1 through AP, CLICK HERE.
Other March 16th birthdays:
César Vallejo (1892-1938): Poet, writer and dramatist from Perú. He was the youngest of 11 children born in a village in the Andes mountains. He studied literature at the Universidad de Trujillo in Perú but had to leave school to make money for his family. He worked on the sugar plantations and witnessed the abuse of workers. As such, he became politically active and was imprisoned for his work. When he was released from prison, in 1923, he left Perú for Europe and never returned. He died in Paris in 1938. (In my Spanish 4 classes the last few years we've had fun acting out his poem Masa, with one student volunteer playing the role of the combatiente muerto that "siguió muriendo" despite multiple pleas from good-willed others that he not. At the end of the poem all the students get out of their seats and surround him, as the poem describes, and he gets up and walks off :)).
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For resources for teaching Spanish, Level 1 through AP, CLICK HERE.
Other March 16th birthdays:
César Vallejo (1892-1938): Poet, writer and dramatist from Perú. He was the youngest of 11 children born in a village in the Andes mountains. He studied literature at the Universidad de Trujillo in Perú but had to leave school to make money for his family. He worked on the sugar plantations and witnessed the abuse of workers. As such, he became politically active and was imprisoned for his work. When he was released from prison, in 1923, he left Perú for Europe and never returned. He died in Paris in 1938. (In my Spanish 4 classes the last few years we've had fun acting out his poem Masa, with one student volunteer playing the role of the combatiente muerto that "siguió muriendo" despite multiple pleas from good-willed others that he not. At the end of the poem all the students get out of their seats and surround him, as the poem describes, and he gets up and walks off :)).
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