Experts & Leadership
José Enrique Arrioja is the managing editor of Americas Quarterly. A Venezuelan-American journalist, he has been covering financial markets and politics in Latin America for the last 23 years through print, radio and television. He spent 19 years at Bloomberg based in New York and Mexico City, starting as a television reporter covering markets and becoming executive producer and anchor for daily and weekly broadcasts on Bloomberg TV Spain and Latin America. He also pioneered Bloomberg’s Latin America Summits, organizing the first in 2009. In 2020, he launched his own multimedia startup: Zignox.com, a financial information platform focused on Latin America. Prior to Bloomberg, José Enrique worked at The Wall Street Journal Americas in New York, and before moving to the U.S., he established himself as an enterprise reporter at El Nacional and El Universal in Venezuela. He was also a founding reporter at Economía Hoy—a milestone in Venezuela’s media landscape as the country’s inaugural economic newspaper. José Enrique holds a bachelor’s degree in social communication from the Universidad Católica Andres Bello in Caracas, Venezuela. He resides in New Rochelle, New York, with his wife and two children. Follow him on X @ArriojaJoseE.