Valentina Alazraki

Dame Valentina Alazraki Crastich (born in January 1955 in Mexico City) is a Mexican journalist and writer, correspondent of Noticieros Televisa at the Vatican since 1974 and W Radio since 2005. Alazraki is known because of her friendship with Pope John Paul II. First years on journalism She started her career on 1974, during the pontificate of Paul VI, when he died she covered the conclave and pontificate of John Paul I, and after his suppressive death came the pontificate of John Paul II, with whom she traveled around the world during the 26 years and 5 months of his reign. Alazraki traveled with John Paul on 100 of his 104 apostolic travels, and she was the first journalist to interview a pope, on the eve of his travel to Mexico, in January 1979.