Daniel Coronell

Daniel Coronell

Daniel Alfonso Coronell Castañeda (Bogotá, October 25 of 1964) is a Colombian journalist and columnist. He has been news director for RCN, Noticias Uno and president of Univision News, the news division of Univision, until August 1, 2021. In September 2021 he was appointed as president of the weekly news magazine Cambio. In October 2021, Coronell started working for W Radio Colombia.For twelve consecutive years he has been chosen as the most read columnist by opinion leaders in Colombia according to a 2020 poll carried out by the agency Cifras y Conceptos. His op-ed column, the most widely read in Colombia, used to be published in Semana, but following his departure from the weekly magazine it started being published in the online portal Los Danieles, which he co-created with Daniel Samper Ospina, and which features op-eds by Antonio Caballero (until his death in 2021), Ana Bejarano, and Daniel Samper Pizano. Coronell has uncovered some of the great scandals of recent years. Among others, the case of Yair Klein, the negligence of the Colombian government to guard Pablo Escobar during his incarceration, revealed the calls that linked Ernesto Samper with Elizabeth Montoya of Sarria, and numerous complaints related to the former president including the ilegal purchase of parliamentary votes that allowed his re-election, a scandal known as yidispolitica. Álvaro Uribe. , Coronell was the victim of multiple threats that forced him into exile. In the 2002 received threats after publishing that, in 1984, a helicopter belonging to President Álvaro Uribe's father had been found in a coca laboratory in Tranquilandia. The aircraft had obtained its license when Álvaro Uribe was director of the Civil Aeronautics. In September 2005, Coronell had to leave the country and live in exile for two years for r death threats made to him and his family.

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