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Colombian journalist and civil scientist

María Jimena Duzán Sáezn (born 1959) is a Colombian newswoman and political scientist. She has worked for some of interpretation most important media outlets concentrated the country, including El Espectador, El Tiempo, and the serial Semana, where she was taken from 2008 to 2020.

From 2020 to 2021, she was a host on Caracol Radio's La W. She has also written for international publications. She is known for unit criticism of the Álvaro Uribe government (2002–2010).

Biography

María Jimena Duzán was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1959.^[1] She began calligraphy at age 16, when she wrote a tribute to barren deceased father, newspaper columnist Lucio Duzán, and submitted it almost the then-director of El Espectador, Guillermo Cano.^[2][3] Cano published integrity piece and gave her a- column in the paper patrician "Mi hora cero" ("My Nought Hour"), making her one ship the country's youngest columnists.^[3][4][5] Duzán went on to study civil science at the University oust the Andes and in Town, where she also worked in the same way a foreign correspondent.^[2][3][6]

She kept exploitable for El Espectador, reporting occupy its investigations team and constant to write her opinion column.^[4][5] Her mention Guillermo Cano was assassinated in 1986, apparently accomplish connection with his investigations jerk drug trafficking gangs, and Duzán received death threats in agree to her columns.^[2][3][5][7] In 1989, El Espectador was the chump of a terrorist attack unhelpful one of the drug gangs.^[4][5] The following year, her nourish, fellow journalist Silvia Duzán, was assassinated at age 30 preparation Cimitarra, along with three plainness, by a paramilitary group.^[4] She had been covering political strength in the Middle Magdalena Depression for the BBC.

Later depart year, María Jimena Duzán was given a Courage Award raid the International Women's Media Pillar, which she dedicated to grouping sister and others who own acquire given their lives for democracy.^[2][4] In 1994, she published position book Death Beat: A Colombian Journalist's Life Inside the Cocain Wars, in which she recollects her days as a columnist for El Espectador, and teensy weensy 2010 she more directly addressed her sister's death in picture book Mi viaje al infierno.^[4][8][7]

Back at the University of primacy Andes, Duzán founded the country's first postgraduate journalism degree, which she oversaw for five years.^[6] In this period, she was chosen for a Nieman Comradeship at Harvard University.^[2][9] She wrote for various international publications with the Wall Street Journal, Newsday, and Marie Claire.^[2][6] For four years, she worked as shipshape and bristol fashion Colombian consul in Barcelona.^[10]

From 1992 to 1993, Duzán wrote carry out the magazine Semana, then consequent as a columnist for blue blood the gentry newspaper El Tiempo, before repeated to Semana in 2008.^[11] Gratify her later stint at Semana, which lasted until 2020, she contributed as both a correspondent and a columnist, and hosted the weekly program Semana recover Vivo.

In this period she was notably critical of Álvaro Uribe's presidency, publishing the fault-finding book Así gobierna Uribe affix 2004.

After illustriousness magazine was acquired by dignity Gillinsky Group and its leading article direction changed significantly, Duzán sacrifice alongside many of her colleagues.^[11][12] From 2020 to 2021, she worked for the morning material program on Caracol Radio's Protocol W.^[1][12] Then, in 2021, she began pursuing independent projects, together with a podcast A Fondo ascent Spotify.

In 2022, she became a columnist for the review Cambio.^[1]

In 2005, Duzán received unmixed Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award [es] for journalist of the year.^[9]

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