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Maria Elena Salinas is an American broadcaster, anchor, and author. She is America’s well-recognized Hispanic female journalist and has been labeled as ‘the Voice of the Hispanics. Maria Elena Salinas was also a co-host of Noticiero Univision which is the evening newscast on the channel.
Let us go through her life from birth and get updates on her career.
Quick Biography
Maria Elena Salinas – birth and childhood
Maria was born on 30 December 1954 in Los Angeles and her parents had moved to the US from Mexico in the 1940s. She has spent 7 years of her childhood in Mexico. Her father died early and was a Catholic Priest. She had put down her memories and discoveries of her father’s life in her autobiography called Yo Soy la Hija de mi Padre (I Am My Father’s Daughter) which she released in 2006.
She has studied at the University of California in Los Angeles. She is Afro-Latina in ethnicity and has an American nationality.
Maria Elena Salinas – career/net worth
After her graduation, Maria began work with KMEX-TV as a reporter, anchor, and public affairs host. This channel is an affiliate of Univision in LA. The year was 1981 and in 1987 she started hosting the national level program in the Spanish language called Noticiero Univision. She has interviewed all the President of the US on her show since the time of Jimmy Carter.
She has more than 3 decades of experience in the US as well as in 18 Latin American countries. She was the first female journalist to be on the land of Baghdad during the wartime there and was herself interviewed by the other-other journalists for it.
She is part of several bilingual national and international debates. She resigned from Univision in 2017 since she wanted to pursue her independent career as a news producer. She said at that time:
“They haven’t been fired, I have not resigned, I’m not retiring, and I’m going elsewhere to do the same thing that I do here.”
In 2017, she started an English language crime program on investigation Discovery and it was called The Real Story with Maria Elena Salinas. She is also a writer and from 2001 to 2011 she used to write for a syndicated column every week both in English and Spanish.
Maria has been into philanthropy and has contributed to other social causes. She is sponsored sori g for a scholarship on her name. She has received numerous awards for her work in journalism as well as philanthropy. The list is endless and she also has received an honorary doctorate from the American University. Her exact net worth is not known.
Maria Elena Salinas and her husband and daughters
She was married to Eliot Rodriguez but the couple divorced in 2007. She has two daughters named Julia and Gabriela. It is not known whether she entered into any relationship after that.
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There is no information available on her body measurements.
Her Instagram has 466.3k followers whereas her Two have 393.8k fans.
Maria Elena Salinas net worth
As of 2018, her net worth is estimated to be $3.45 Million.
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