For his grandfather, see Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz.In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Loret de Mola and the second or maternal family name is Álvarez.

Carlos Loret de Mola Álvarez (born October 17, 1976 in Mérida, Yucatán) is a Mexican journalist. He has more than 8 million followers on Twitter, his evening radio program Así Las Cosas con Carlos Loret de Mola on W Radio is an audience leader in México. Also, he writes the most read opinion column in the country in the newspaper El Universal and contributes to the Washington Post.

Most recently, in 2020, he founded the digital journalistic platform LatinUS, which has become a news reference in Mexico, thanks to its investigations of corruption and organized crime.

Loret de Mola has a long career as a reporter, war correspondent and television host. For almost 20 years, he headed the morning news program on Televisa. He has written several books, has been awarded multiple times and his journalistic works are frequently cited by national and international media.

He is son of the Mexican writer and political journalist, Rafael Loret de Mola, and grandson of Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz, former governor of Yucatan.

He has a bachelor's degree in Economics for the Ins*uto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).

He is well known for his international coverage as a war correspondent in Afghanistan, Haiti, Syria and Libya. He has also covered multiple political events and natural disasters such as the Indian Ocean tsunami, the Libyan Civil War, the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, the food crisis in the Horn of Africa in 2011, the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, the Tunisian Revolution and the death of Hugo Chavez.

He became the first journalist in the world to interview both Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, and Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel prime minister, in the context of the nuclear threats.

His journalistic work in Mexico has been quoted by international media like: The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and Al Jazeera.

Contents

• 1 Bibliography
• 2 Awards
• 3 Movies
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Bibliography

• El Negocio: La economía de México atrapada por el narcotráfico (2002). Roughly translated as, "The Business: Mexico's economy caught in the drug trade".
• Coauthor of War logbook (Bitácora de Guerra) (2002).
• Coauthor of "Diálogo con Navegante", sharing credits with Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa. (2004).
• Coauthor of Panic Island (Haití. Isla Pánico) (2011).

Awards

• Premio Internacional de Periodismo by Club de Periodistas de México 2013.
• Award for Excellence in Journalism by Arizona State Capitol 2008.
• Premio Nacional de Periodismo de México 2007.
• Premio Nacional de Periodismo de México 2005.
• Special mention Premio Nacional de Periodismo 2001.
• Premio del Certamen Nacional de Periodismo in 2002, 2003 and 2004.
• Premio de la Asociación Nacional de Locutores in 2002 and 2003.
• Primer Premio Parliamentario de Periodismo in 1998.

Movies

He launched the do*entary movie De Panzazo (Barely p*ed), which he co-directed, wrote and narrated, addressing the issue of the lack of good education in Mexico.

He participated in the do*entary "Sea of Shadows", produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, which denounces the corruption networks, organized crime and illegal fishing of totoaba and the vaquita marina in the Sea of Cortez.

References

External links

• Official website
• Carlos Loret de Mola at IMDb