And now from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, the Act Files, with your host, David Axelrod.

Jorge Ramosa is a unique figure in American media today.

He came here as an immigrant from Mexico in the early 80s. By the mid 80s, he was an anchor man for Univision.

And over the next decades became a singular force. Now at the age of 50-70, splits this time between Univision and Fusion, a new network that's aimed at Millennials.

And it's clear that he's become quite a force among Millennials because he came to the Institute of Politics the other night and sold out an auditorium in a matter of minutes and electrified the audience.

We also had a great conversation right here.

Jorge Ramosa, the Walter Cronkite of Hispanic Media. How are you sick of hearing that? That seems like almost a cliche by now.

In fact, I heard they're starting to call Walter Cronkite, Jorge Ramosa of Anglo-Mina. Well, I'm 57. So I'm feeling the age.

And next year is going to be my 30th year as an anchor man for Univision in New Sin Spanish. I started when I was 28.

And I never expected that I was going to be that long doing exactly the same thing. I, at one point, remember the salary man in Japan that they used to work in the same company for all their lives.

I'm feeling exactly the same way. Since I started working in the United States, it's been with Univision. Now I'm working also with Fusion, which is the ABC and Univision partnership.

But at the end, I, what I'm happy is that people still believe what I say. They still trust you. And if you're a journalist and people don't believe what you say, it really doesn't matter.

And what's also funny is that every four years they remember us, in other words, they remember that Latino community exists. Simply because they need the Hispanic vote.

I call it the Christopher Columbus Syndrome every four years. They rediscover us and then they forget about us. So it is one of those years. So I'm happy just to be here.

You, your career began back in Mexico City where you were raised. I want to talk a little bit about that because I want to talk about how Jorge Ramos becomes Jorge Ramos.

So talk a little bit about your upbringing and then I want to talk about how you wound up here and the break you had with your first television station because that's such an interesting story.

I grew up in Mexico City. I have a three-brother center system. And the timing which I was growing up in Mexico, it was kind of difficult. My father was very authoritarian.

And you either would agree with him or you would have to leave the house. I remember that when I decided to study journalism and communication, he told me that that was not a legitimate profession.

He wanted me to be a doctor, an attorney, an engineer or an architect like him. Those were the only professions that were legitimate for him. And then when I told him, no, I want to study communications. I want to study journalism. I remember clearly that he said,

what are you going to do with that? In that expression, stayed with me for a long time. I told that, you know, I don't know exactly what I'm going to do with that. But that's precisely what I want to do.

What did you want to do?

I realized that journalism was my way of being a witness to what was happening in the world. I wanted to travel. And that was the only way to get to know the people that was changing the world.

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