Assimilation and Rebuilding with Rick Sanchez

Cafe con Pam

Listeners, we're back this week with Rick Sanchez.

Rick Sanchez is an author, producer, news correspondent and TV news host with more than 30 years of experience with CNN, Fox News, NBC News, Univision and iHeartRadio. He is the first ever US Latino with his own namesake and highly rated show on national television, Rick’s List on CNN.Sanchez, an Emmy award winning journalist, has been part of three Peabody Award-winning teams and an Alfred A. Dupont, which is among the most coveted awards in journalism. Sanchez anchored CNN’s Award-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina, NBC’s award winning coverage of the 911 attack, was awarded Florida Broadcaster of the Year for his coverage of Hurricane Andrew and has interviewed four US presidents as well as Russian President Michael Gorbachev, Cuban President Fidel Castro and Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega from behind bars.

During this episode we talked about:

• 05:07 - Growing up and getting to the United States
• 08:51 - La casa de cucarachas
• 10:51 - The peter pan experience
• 15:31 - Every time you fall it spurge you to do better
• 16:28 - Immigrants
• 18:06 - Reasons bigger than yourself
• 18:49 - Ricardo becoming Rick
• 19:09 - I wanted to be an American kid
• 28:24 - How he decided his career
• 30:13 - No latinos in news
• 31:37 - What happened with CNN
• 35:43 - Remake myself
• 36:03 - Making the change
• 38:18 - Remake yourself
• 40:39 - Agua Media
• 41:03 - The power of the Latine community

This episode is brought to you by First Republic Bank.

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