Pedro Ferriz Santacruz, born March 17th, 1921[1] in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, is a veteran radio and television presenter in Mexico.
His long career includes programs such as Noticiario Nescafe, Las trece del trece and La Pregunta de los 64,000 (The $64,000 Question). One of his best-known programs is Un mundo nos vigila (A world is watching us), a radio show about the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, which started on station XEW and is now broadcast on the Imagen Informativa radio network.
In 1997, Ferriz was a candidate for the Cardenist Party (PC) in the local Mexico City government elections.[2] The elections were won by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas from the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), the third largest political party in México.
Pedro Ferriz Santacruz is the son of Pedro Ferriz Monrroy and the father of radio and television news announcer Pedro Ferríz de Con.