He was about to die! Jorge Ramos confesses “terrifying” experience as a journalist

• Jorge Ramos Confesses Near-Death Experience
• The journalist opens up in his book
• «I saved my life,» says the Mexican

For the first time, Mexican journalist Jorge Ramos shocked the public by recounting how he nearly lost his life.

Through his book «Así veo las cosas» and an interview with EFE, Ramos expressed the tense moments he experienced while on assignment.

«A rebel pointed a gun at my neck in Afghanistan and I saved my life by giving him $15; I never wrote about that,» the journalist revealed.

«I live the experience in two ways, one what I report; another how I experience it,» he confesses.

JORGE RAMOS TALKS ABOUT HIS NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE

Jorge Ramos, one of the most respected Hispanic voices in the United States, confessed this Sunday that he writes to release things stuck in his throat and stomach given today’s harsh world.

«I write so I don’t explode,» said the journalist in an interview with EFE, regarding his book ‘Así veo las cosas’.

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This book is an anthology of some of his main columns and confessions from his professional and personal life.

Ramos, a Univision presenter, is known for his incisive questions to presidents.

Jorge Ramos, the terror of the leaders!

Nicolás Maduro expelled him from Venezuela; Donald Trump threw him out of a press conference in the United States.

And the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, got angry because the journalist showed him the rise in violence during his term.

«I am disobedient. I have understood that in journalism I have to do two things: report reality as it is and question those who have power,» he confessed.

Ramos’s book, published by Planeta, includes nearly a hundred columns of the more than 1,000 written in newspapers by the journalist.

What is his work in journalism like?

He reflects on ethics in journalism and reveals the human side of the interviewer, with experience as a correspondent in seven wars.

Ramos lives in Miami, where many believe that criticizing Trump makes you a communist, but they run out of arguments.

When the journalist is accused by Maduro of being a champion of the right and the Mexican López Obrador gets upset with his questions.

«In Miami they accuse me of being a communist; then I question Maduro and they don’t understand; they shout right-winger at me,» he highlighted.

Jorge Ramos faced Trump!

«And when I confront Trump, they also don’t understand. I think the only thing they should understand is that I will always be on the other side of power,» he states.

The analyst laments the lack of brilliant men in world politics and misses prestigious thinkers from the past.

«We were used to having great leaders during the time of Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan.»

«I like to talk about Desmond Tutu in South Africa; I like to think about great humanists, but I don’t see someone like Nelson Mandela telling us where the world should go.»

Is the country in danger?

He thinks about the United States, where his children were born, and acknowledges that this country disappeared as a world leader with Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

«In another place Trump would have been discarded as a candidate, but he is ahead in the polls for president.»

«A man guilty of sexual abuse, with 34 charges of falsifying documents by paying a porn actress to interfere in a campaign and over 90 charges for not accepting the results of the past elections.»

In his youth, Jorge Ramos was a good 400-meter hurdler, but he was injured. In 1983 he traveled to Los Angeles and there he became an immigrant, which is equivalent to being a winner of obstacles in the race of life.

«Nobody has represented better than him the Latino press»

The first years were tough. He had to overcome loneliness, fine-tune his ear, and prepare to enter the Major Leagues of journalism.

«In my youth, my nose was broken three times, however, I developed my hearing and sight, two important senses for finding stories,» he explains.

Jorge Ramos defines himself as an immigrant and journalist, although, as he says, if he could he would prefer to be identified by something more human: the father of Nicolás, Paola, and Carlota.

«Nobody has better represented the Latino press and the immigrant community, he is the face of Univision, the voice of all of us, the transplanted Latin Americans,» affirmed Chilean novelist Isabel Allende. With information from EFE.

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