Guillermo Arduino (born December 2, 1964) is an Argentinian journalist who worked for

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and

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. Arduino was the host of ''Encuentro'' on CNN en Español and ''Clix'', a tech show on ''

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'' from 1999 to 2021.

Early life and career

Arduino was born in 1964 and raised in

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. He attended the Instituto Superior de Enseñanza de Radiodifusión, Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado en Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernandez". He began working in the radio and television industry at the age of twenty-five, eventually becoming the host of a nightly news program in

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on CVN-America TV.

Career in the United States

In 1995, he worked as a news anchor for a breakfast show on

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's International Language TV News Station Canal de Noticias. At NBC he interviewed world leaders and covered US Presidential elections. Starting in 1997, Arduino worked as an on-air meteorologist and show presenter for

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. He then became a member of

's weather team as an international weather anchor. In 2002, he became an anchor for ''CNN World View'' and served as anchor during the

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and the

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. Since 2008, Arduino has been the host of ''Clix'', a weekly tech show on CNN en Español and CNN Latino. In December 2011, Arduino left the weather team of

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to assume his new role as CNN anchor and correspondent. Since then he has become the host and anchor of the weekend news show ''Mirador Mundial''. At

he has also hosted ''Global Challenges'' and is the anchor of the CNN en Español technology news show ''Clix''. He was nominated for the 2014

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in 2016. In 2015 he was named an ''Embajador de la Creatividad'' by the University of Palermo in Buenos Aires. During the beginning of the CNN en Español program Encuentro on Tuesday, July 16, 2019, Arduino stated:

"Two days ago it was the nineteenth anniversary of the death of my mother, a sudden cancer that she endured with unwavering stoicism; she said that when I died I wouldn't know what would become of my Father... and he left, only months later."

After 22 years, Guillermo Arduino left the American network CNN en Español in 2021.

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