Beatriz Sánchez (journalist)

On June 10, 2020, Sánchez accused Secretary of State Jaime Mañalich of having an "erratic" strategy to handle the coronavirus pandemic in Chile. On June 12, 2020, Sánchez, along with the parliamentarians Carmen Frei, Carmen Hertz, and Maya Fernández Allende, signed a public letter, questioning the deficient sanitary control that the second government of Sebastián Piñera has had during the health crisis, and demanded the immediate resignation of the Minister of Health, Jaime Mañalich.

In 2017, she ran for her country's presidential candidacy in the Broad Front primaries, achieving 68% of the preferences. In the same year, she ran as a candidate for the Broad Front in the 2017 presidential elections, where she reached third place, with a percentage higher than 20%, only two percentage points lower than her contender, Alejandro Guillier.

The journalist was contacted in January 2017 by the Cittizen Power party to propose a pre-candidacy for the Broad Front for the presidential election that year, which she ruled out in a message on her Twitter account on January 13. However, after a meeting with the Democratic Revolution party and the Autonomist Movement, she decided to consider an eventual pre-candidacy, freezing her work at Radio La Clave and postponing other projects she was planning: to carry out a diploma and a goldsmith course. This decision was made public on March 21.

Also on La Red, she developed the program Entrevista Verdadera between 2015 and 2016. Her time on television ended abruptly; In mid-2015, the Hora 20 program was taken off the air due to the closure of La Red's press department. In February 2017, La Red did not continue its contract, leaving its program off-screen, which she described as a "painful exit" for leaving people with whom she had generated a close relationship.

Sánchez has obtained multiple awards for her work as a journalist. In 2014, she received the distinction as the "best television journalist of the year" by the Adolfo Ibáñez University. In 2016 she obtained the Raquel Correa Award by the National Association of Women Journalists of Chile.

She was a founding figure of ADN Radio, where she served as anchor host along with other journalists. There she began to make her editorials, which were not without controversy, due to the leading role she took on the station, different from the traditional space that women have been given in Chilean communications. In 2014, she resigned from ADN Radio after a conflict with a union leader, following the path of several of her colleagues, including Fernando Paulsen.

Beatriz Sánchez is a self-declared feminist. In an interview with Paula magazine in November 2014, she stated that her reasons for such are that “we still earn up to 40% less than men for the same job; Despite being 50% of the population in the country, we are less than 20% in political positions, in company directories, in national awards and general management; and it's not because all women want to be mothers".

Much of her career has been developed in the radio world, being a journalist for various programs on Radio Bío-Bío (1994-1996), Radio Chilena (1996-2002), Radio Cooperativa (2003-2007), ADN Radio (2008- 2014) and Radio La Clave (2014-2017).

During the 1990s and 2000s, she worked as a political and current affairs journalist for radio stations in Chile, where she achieved high recognition for her activity. During the 2010s, she joined television, where she was the host of the Hora 20 news program on La Red.

Beatriz de Jesús Sánchez Muñoz (born 24 December 1970) is a Chilean journalist and politician.

On April 3rd, she formalized her candidacy for the Broad Front primaries in an act held in the Plaza Baquedano, in Santiago. Sánchez won the Broad Front primaries in the July 2 elections, with 68% of the votes.