Journalist Ilia Calderón Chamat was born in Colombia in 1972. Calderón, who was raised in Chocó, currently co-anchors Univision’s evening national newscast alongside Jorge Ramos. She also serves as the host of the weekly news program Aqu y Ahora on Univision.
At Universidad de Antioquia, she studied social work as her major. She first hosted a number of news programs on the local station Teleantioquia. She appeared on national television in 1998 for Noticiero CM&. Three years later, she joined Telemundo where she anchored a section of the now-defunct morning program Cada Da con Mara Antonieta and the weekend edition of Noticiero Telemundo.
She had a successful operation to remove a tumor from her uterus in 2005.
What ethnicity is Ilia Calderón? What religion is Ilia Calderón?
Ilia Calderón was born in the lovely Colombian area of Chocó into a multicultural and mixed-race household.
She left Telemundo in March 2007 to host the weekend version of Univision Primer Impacto. Fernando del Rincon, the show’s host, was sacked in 2009, and Ilia took his place as a regular co-host on the Monday-Friday edition, with Barbara Bermudo handing over the weekend edition to Satcha Pretto.
