Federico Jiménez Losantos
| Federico Jiménez Losantos | |
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15 September 1951 Orihuela del Tremedal, Teruel, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
Federico Jiménez Losantos is a popular Spanish pundit, being most known for his radio talk show, but also a TV host and literary author.
He was born in Orihuela del Tremedal, Teruel, on September 15, 1951.
Raised in a humble family, Federico started succeeding in school from early age.He earned a degree in Spanish Studies (section Philology) at the University of Barcelona after spending almost his entire academic formation under scholarship of excellency, becoming a teacher of Spanish Literature at the Instituto Lope de Vega, a high school in Madrid.
During the early 1970s, Jiménez Losantos was an active anti-Francoist member in different illegal maoist and communist organizations based in Barcelona, where he got his degrees and lived before and during the Spanish transition to democracy.
He grew disillusioned with the communist creed as a result of a journey to Maoist China, where he had gone to receive military and ideological training, but, having realized instead of the real situation of the populace and the thorough control it was subjected to, this journey triggered a complete reversal of his political stances.
Nowadays he defines himself as classic liberal, while opponents accuse him of being close to the European hard right. In all, often his views can be close to those of right libertarianism. He is particularly positioned against the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, which he argues is understanding with terrorists in Spain and abroad, on the one side and Catalan and Basque nationalism (and what he sees as their alleged historical revisionism) on the other side.
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