Carmen Aristegui is widely regarded as one of Mexico's leading journalists and opinion leaders, and is best known for her critical investigations of the Mexican government.
33 Facts About Carmen Aristegui
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Carmen Aristegui is the anchor of the news program Aristegui on CNN en Espanol, and writes regularly for the opinion section of the periodical Reforma.
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Carmen Aristegui manages her own news website and hosts an online morning newscast, which is broadcast on Grupo Radio Centro's XERC-FM.
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Carmen Aristegui's father was a Basque Spaniard who had come to Mexico as a child as a refugee from the Spanish Civil War and her mother was of Spanish and French heritage.
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Carmen Aristegui has said that it was because of that family background that she has dedicated her life to journalism.
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Carmen Aristegui grew up in the Colonia Alamos, a neighborhood in the Benito Juarez division in the south-central part of the Federal District.
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Carmen Aristegui attended elementary school at the Escuela Primaria Estado De Chiapas, and attended secondary school at Club de Leones de la Ciudad de Mexico.
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Carmen Aristegui attended the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where she first studied Sociology and then switched to Communication Sciences.
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Carmen Aristegui began her television career on Channel 13, then Imevision as an assistant on the financial-news program Monitor Financiero, hosted by Efren Flores.
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Carmen Aristegui worked on the program En Blanco y Negro alongside Javier Solorzano, broadcast by MVS, and in 2001 was on Circulo Rojo on Televisa.
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Carmen Aristegui worked on the news program Noticias Canal 52: Aristegui-Solorzano, broadcast on channel 52MX, from 2003 to 2006.
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Carmen Aristegui has worked for various radio stations, including Radio Educacion, FM Globo and Stereorey.
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Carmen Aristegui hosted the program Hoy por Hoy on W Radio until 4 January 2008, when, after several months that had been marked by increased tensions between herself and her employers about the extent to which she should be allowed to express certain opinions, she parted ways with the network, citing differences over its planned changes in editorial direction.
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On 5 January 2008, La Jornada reported that after the show's final broadcast, Carmen Aristegui received applause from station workers, lasting for several minutes.
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De Lara stated publicly that the Carmen Aristegui case showed how concentrated media ownership in Mexico had narrowed the range of permissible opinions in Mexico's media.
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MVS Radio and Carmen Aristegui reached an agreement in early 2009 to begin a new radio show on Noticias MVS.
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On 4 February 2011, on her MVS program, Carmen Aristegui reported an incident that had occurred on the previous day in the Chamber of Deputies.
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The journalist Carmen Aristegui violated our code of ethics and we decided to terminate our existing contractual relationship.
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Carmen Aristegui's termination was announced that evening, and within hours Sota phoned Vargas and told him she was alarmed by the intense reaction on social networks to the news of Aristegui's dismissal.
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Carmen Aristegui issued an ultimatum and threaten to quit if MVS did not reinstate her two staff members.
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Four days later, MVS fired Carmen Aristegui after considering that she had crossed the line for issuing an ultimatum to the MVS management.
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Carmen Aristegui said that she had plans to pursue legal action against MVS.
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On September 28,2018, Grupo Radio Centro and Carmen Aristegui announced an alliance in which the journalist's Internet newscast would be broadcast over XERC-FM and other stations in several states of Mexico, beginning in October 17.
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Carmen Aristegui worked for El Universal, for which she co-wrote the column "Circulo rojo" with Javier Solorzano.
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Carmen Aristegui explained that she had written the book in order to offer readers "a very interesting overview and X-ray of the country" and to provide insights into the ways the candidates had resolved specific situations in the past, which might offer clues as to how they would behave in office.
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For over five years, Carmen Aristegui hosted the Federal Electoral Institute's special political programming.
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Carmen Aristegui regularly participates in several academic forums and debates.
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Carmen Aristegui was selected to carry the Olympic torch through part of Mexico while it was on its worldwide journey to Athens in 2004.
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In 2004, on the Canal 52 MVS evening news, Carmen Aristegui uncovered the first video scandal of the year, concerning Green Party leader Jorge Emilio Gonzalez Martinez's involvement in a tourist development in Cancun.
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Carmen Aristegui has long been critical of the Television Law, which favors the televised media duopoly in Mexico consisting of Grupo Televisa and TV Azteca.
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Carmen Aristegui investigated the life of Marcial Maciel and the many cases of pedophilia in which he was involved, and questioned his beatification by Pope John Paul II.
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Carmen Aristegui's courage serves as an example for journalists, especially women, fighting to make their voices heard.
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Carmen Aristegui has one son, Emilio, born on 11 February 1999.