Raul Peimbert is a Mexican/American newscaster] who also served as General Coordinator of Media Affairs for the Government of the Mexican State of Veracruz.
Peimbert was born in Livermore, Ca (1962). He got his start in television at a young age, as a news editor for a station in Guadalajara. He went on to anchor the news first in Xalapa Ver., Mexico for Channel 4 (TV_MAS) and later in the city of Veracruz, for the local Televisa Station.
Raul Peimbert began his career in Spanish-language television in the US, first as co-anchor at Univision Network and later at Telemundo Network as main anchor. Raul started a new program titled “América Habla con Raul Peimbert” a one-on one interview show allowed him to be one of the few Hispanic journalists that has interviewed more than 40 Latin American presidents, among them: Felipe Calderón Hinojosa(México), Vicente Fox Quezada[2] (México), Carlos Salinas de Gortari (México), Ernesto Zedillo (México), Carlos Saúl Menem (Argentina), Alberto Fujimori (Perú), César Gaviria (Colombia), Ernesto Samper (Colombia), Eduardo Frei (Chile), Ernesto Pérez Balladares (Panamá), Armando
Calderón Sol (El Salvador), Rafael Caldera (Venezuela), Jaime Paz Zamora (Bolivia), Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (Bolivia), Juan Carlos Wasmosy (Paraguay), Carlos Roberto Reina (Honduras), José López Portillo (México), Miguel De la Madrid (México), Joaquín Balaguer (República Dominicana), Antonio Saca (El Salvador), Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua), Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Leonel Fernández (República Dominicana) William Clinton (USA)
His work goes beyond the News boundaries, “America Habla” allowed him to interview remarkable personalities such as writers, singers and artists, Placido Domingo, Rigoberta Menchu, Isabel Allende, Jacobo Zabludoysky, Carlos Fuentes, Joan Manuel Serrat, Elena Poniatowska, Mercedes Sosa, Oswaldo Guayasamin Jose Luis Cuevas, Alberto Cortes, and Facundo Cabral among others.
Other special assignments include all the visits of John Paul II to Latin America, the on-going news coverage of the murdered presidential Mexican candidate, Luis Donaldo Colosio, the Los Angeles Earthquake, the Federal Building Explosion in Oklahoma, the terrorist attack on the twin towers in New York, the LA fires, and the floods in the state of Tabasco, Mexico in 2007.
The National Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences has recognized Raul Peimbert with 35 nominations and 28 Emmy Awards.
In 1995, the Hispanic Council of United States of America, bestowed the award of “Don Quijote” in recognition of his extraordinary labor in favor of the Hispanic culture and tradition. In 1998, he joined Radio Unica, a Hispanic Radio Network, where he hosted “Muy Temprano”, with his wife Fulvia
Peimbert. He also presented the news for MVS Noticias in Mexico City and eventually became the News Anchor at the Telemundo in Los Angeles.
In 2002, he was hired as a General Coordinator of Media Affairs for the government of the State of Veracruz, Mexico. He gave up the position in 2004 after Miguel Alemán Velasco, the former governor, left the office. In 2007 The George Foster Peabody Awards has granted recognition to Raul Peimbert for his participation in “Ya Es Hora”, a social campaign produced by Univision Communications.
From November 2005 to November 2011, Peimbert worked for KMEX Univision in Los Angeles as a primary anchor.
In 2012 he took a lead anchor position at KXLN, Houston’s Univision affiliate.