José Enrique Arrioja has been editor for Latin America since March 2013, overseeing strategic planning for Bloomberg News in the region. Previously, he worked as Mexico City bureau chief from 2009 to 2013, and between 2006 and 2009 he was the executive producer of Bloomberg Television Latin America while also anchoring the shows Reporte Financiero and Intercambio, both produced from New York. Arrioja was also a television reporter for Bloomberg Television Spain, gathering and reporting U.S. economic and market information for Spanish-speaking audiences from the New York Stock Exchange. Prior to joining Bloomberg, he was editor of The Wall Street Journal Americas in Spanish from 1998 to 2000. In Venezuela, he reported for the papers El Nacional, El Universal, and was a founder journalist of Economía Hoy. Arrioja has interviewed numerous heads of state and high-level officials, including Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, Oscar Arias, Álvaro Uribe, and Felipe Calderón. He received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the Andrés Bello Catholic University in Venezuela, and took various courses on new technologies and television at New York University.