Ángela Patricia Janiot Martirena (born October 2, 1963) is a Colombian-American

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and

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, and former

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and

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. She worked for 25 years at

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as the senior news anchor where she established her career as a reputable figure in Latin American news. Currently, she works as a News Anchor and Senior Correspondent at

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Miss World

Before becoming a journalist, Janiot was a Colombian model, then she participated as Miss Santander in the ''

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'' pageant in 1983, where she won the title of Miss Mundo Colombia and was sent to Miss World 1984 pageant. She travelled to

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and participated at the pageant, there she placed in the Top 15 semifinalists.

CNN Internacional

After her participation as a beauty queen she graduated with a degree in

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at Universidad de la Sabana in Bogotá. She joined

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in 1992, where she hosted the Noticiero Telemundo CNN After the association with Telemundo she stayed with CNN and anchored CNN Internacional. Since

was founded in 1997, she became its main news anchor.

Awards

She has received several journalism awards, such as the Golden Mike Award in 1990 and the Simón Bolívar Journalism Award in Colombia. She has also been nominated and awarded the Emmy Award.

Personal life and charitable work

Janiot was born in 1963 in

Bucaramanga Bucaramanga () is the capital and largest city of the department of Santander, Colombia. Bucaramanga has the fifth-largest economy by GDP in Colombia, has the lowest unemployment rate and has the ninth-largest population in the country, with 6 ...

, Santander Department to Roberto Pablo Janiot (an Argentine of French descent), a former football player who played for the

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for some years, and his wife Zunilda Elvizzi Martirena also Argentine of Italian descent. She is married to Miguel Yelós San Martín, from

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, with whom she has two children, Tábatha and Tadeo, and currently lives in

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. Janiot is president of the ''Colombianitos'' foundation, which helps children who are victims of the

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