José Manuel "Chumel" Torres Morales (born 7 May 1982) is a Mexican comedian and
YouTuber.
Early life and education
Torres was born on 7 May 1982 in
Chihuahua City,
Chihuahua Chihuahua may refer to:
Places
*Chihuahua (state), a Mexican state
**Chihuahua (dog), a breed of dog named after the state
**Chihuahua cheese, a type of cheese originating in the state
**Chihuahua City, the capital city of the state
**Chihuahua Mun ...
,
and graduated from Mechanical Engineering at the
Chihuahua Institute of Technology.
He worked for eight years in
project management of a ''
maquiladora
A (), or (), is a word that refers to factories that are largely duty free and tariff-free. These factories take raw materials and assemble, manufacture, or process them and export the finished product. These factories and systems are present t ...
'' of medical equipment in Chihuahua.
Career
Torres first gained notoriety during the
2012 Mexican general election
General elections were held in Mexico on Sunday, July 1, 2012. Voters went to the polls to elect a new president of Mexico, President of the Republic to serve a six-year term, replacing Felipe Calderón, 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies o ...
after he wrote a
tweet about a proposal by one of the then-presidential candidates,
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which was retweeted by
Gabriel Quadri
Gabriel Ricardo Quadri de la Torre (born 4 August 1954), better known as Gabriel Quadri de la Torre, or simply as Gabriel Quadri, is a Mexican politician and former presidential candidate for the New Alliance Party (Spanish: ''Partido Nueva Al ...
, another presidential candidate.
This led for him to be offered the opportunity to write columns for a blog and a weekly newspaper in
Mexico City. After spending some time in the capital, he realized he would rather reach younger and more tech-savvy audiences through a YouTube series, featuring humor with a prominent theme of
political satire, focusing on
Latin America, specifically
Mexico.
He says that he will never move to mainstream television channels to keep his fan base and to prevent being called a "sell out".
Torres says he will not report on stories about
drug lord
A drug lord, drug baron, kingpin or narcotrafficker is a high-ranking crime boss who controls a sizable network of people involved in the illegal drug trade. Such figures are often difficult to bring to justice, as they are normally not directly ...
s out of fear of lawsuits or murder.
As a presenter, he hosted the
2017 MTV Millennial Awards
The 5th Annual MTV Millennial Awards were held on June 3, 2017 at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City, and was broadcast on June 4, 2017 through MTV Latin America. The awards celebrate the best of Latin music and the digital world of the ...
and the 2018
Los Metro Awards.
References
External links
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La Radio de la República(
Podcast in
Spanish)
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Living people
Mexican YouTubers
1982 births
Mexican male comedians
People from Chihuahua City
Mexican mechanical engineers
Chihuahua Institute of Technology alumni