Alberto Peláez

Alberto Peláez is the son of journalist and communicator Joaquín Peláez, with a long professional career in media such as Cadena Ser, where he received among several other Ondas Awards as the best program-manager in 1967.

From an early age, Alberto Peláez read the literary and journalistic texts that his father invited him to discover. Thanks to that and his tireless travels and language skills, today Peláez is a journalist with a wide and global lens.

He graduated in journalism from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and completed a postgraduate degree in International Communication in 1984 at Harvard University. At the same time, he combined his studies with his skills as a film and television dubbing actor from 1981 to 1989, where he acquired better voice handling, intonation and acting. Among other works, he voiced a young Tom Hanks in the film Big in Spain.

The beginnings of Alberto Peláez began on Radio Montecarlo in Paris in the summer of 1983, and soon after, he began collaborating with New York's Spanish-speaking 47 channel. In 1985 he entered work for the media group Televisa, becoming in a very short time, one of the most emblematic correspondents for all of Latin America. In the last 33 years he has covered for the television channel, the most important events of a world character.^{[according to whom?]}

He has witnessed 19 wars, going on to conduct exclusive interviews with such important and influential figures in history as Yasser Arafat or Muammar Gaddafi, or the leader of Hamas sheikh Ahmed Yassin.

Peláez has also interviewed Spanish, European, and Latin American politicians, such as former Spanish presidents Felipe González, José María Aznar, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Portuguese Head of State Aníbal Cavaco Silva, the former presidents of Mexico Ernesto Zedillo, Carlos Salinas, Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón, the former president of Peru Alejandro Toledo or former Argentine President Carlos Menem among others.

Peláez has written and edited 5 books. He began his literary career in 1992, with literature ranging from the journalistic genre to the essay or the novel.

For 13 years he was a columnist for the Milenio newspaper and writes for the newspaper El Universal (Mexico), in addition to collaborating with Grupo Radio Centro and different stations, radio stations and Spanish media.

He is the winner of the Golden Antenna and the International Press Club award, which was given to him at the hands of the king Juan Carlos I.

Today,^[when?] he continues to work as Chief Correspondent for Televisa, covering the most important national and international news for Mexico. He lectures on development and personal growth throughout Mexico, from the most important^{[according to whom?]} universities to multinational companies.

Coverage of warfare such as:

• Invasion of Kuwait by Iraq 1990
• Gulf War Persian War I 1990 – 1991
• Kurdish Exodus from Iraq to Turkey 1991
• Yugoslav Wars 1991 – 1994
• Slovenia
• Croatia
• Bosnia – Sarajevo, Mostar, Livno...
• Algerian Civil War Algerian War 1992
• Russian Constitutional Crisis of 1993 Coup d'état in Russia 1993
• Burundi Civil War War hutus tutsis Rwanda 1995
• Somali Civil War winter 1994 – summer 1995
• Israeli-Palestinian conflict 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002
• Afghanistan War 2001 – 2002
• Iraq War Persian II 2002
• 2011 Libyan War