How Daniel Coronell became one of Alvaro Uribe’s biggest headaches
How Daniel Coronell became one of Alvaro Uribe’s biggest headaches
Oct 27, 2014 posted by Joel Gillin
Daniel Coronell is the journalist behind the recent string of revelations which has exposed former President Alvaro Uribe’s now-evidently hypocritical opposition to the Colombian government’s peace talks with the FARC rebels.
With more than 20 years of experience as journalist, Coronell has broken some of the biggest stories in Colombian politics while also remaining active in academia as a journalism professor and research fellow in Colombia and abroad.
He is currently a columnist at the Colombian weekly Semana. After acting as director of Colombian television network Noticias Uno, in 2011 Coronell became director of Univision, the largest Spanish-language news channel in the United States.
Past Revelations
Coronell has been a fierce critic of Uribe for more than a decade, publishing stories, documents, and opinion pieces which have detailed the questionable ties and activities of the now-Senator and his family.
Back in 2002, Coronell revealed that a helicopter owned by Uribe’s father had been found at a cocaine processing center in the south of Colombia in a 1984 raid by local police and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
Following the story, Coronell and his family received a number of death threats, causing the journalist to go into exile between 2005 and 2007.
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