Federico Jiménez Losantos
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Federico Jiménez Losantos is one of the most popular and controversial radio talk show hosts of Spain. He was born in Orihuela del Tremedal (Teruel, Spain) on September 15, 1951. He earned a degree in Hispanic Philology from the University of Barcelona and was a senior teacher of Spanish Literature at the Instituto Lope de Vega in Madrid.
During Francisco Franco's regime Jiménez Losantos was an active member of the then-illegal Communist Party of Spain in Barcelona, where he lived, studied, and worked for over a decade, during the Spanish transition to democracy.
In 1981, he was abducted and shot in the leg by the now-defunct Catalan terrorist armed organization Terra Lliure after signing a manifesto demanding "equal rights" for native Spanish speakers in the Catalan school system (which was, at the time, being set up according to the Catalan regional government's "Linguistic Normalization Law", as approved by its Parliament
As a result of these events, he moved permanently to Madrid, where he was hired as Op-Ed Editor of Diario 16. He has since worked in Antena 3 Radio and afterwards in the Spanish radio network COPE. After a year living in Miami, he returned to Spain and took charge of La Linterna, one of the most popular night programs in Spanish radio. In 2003 he became director of La Mañana. He is one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in Spain, with his mainly political morning show La Mañana among the most listened to on Spanish radio.
He is founder and editor of the Spanish on-line newspaper Libertad Digital Yet, he is a regular columnist for El Mundo. In 2005 he founded The Spain Herald, an internet based newspaper featuring the best of Libertad Digital.
