Mónica Rincón

She is married to José Manuel Galdames, with whom she had twins in 2011: Vicente and Clara Galdames Rincón. Nevertheless, her daughter died on 30 November 2013 due to heart problems related to her Down syndrome.

Rincón has worked on radio stations Zero, Bío-Bío (2007) and Amadeus (2009). She has headlined major news broadcasts, breaking the news to the world with the deaths of Augusto Pinochet (2006) and Osama bin Laden (2011). On 27 February 2010, she also was the first television journalist to report on the Chile earthquake.

Since 5 March 2009, she was one of the two anchor faces of the TVN news channel along with the journalist Alejandro Guillier, future politician and presidential candidate in the 2017 elections. There she hosted La Mañana Informativa («The Informative Morning») with Gonzalo Ramírez, where she created the first international analysis program on Chilean TV: En qué mundo vives («In what world do you live»), a space in which she was also its journalistic editor.

After six years as a reporter, in March 2004, she took over the leadership of the 24 Horas newscasts in the morning –together with Mauricio Bustamante and Mónica Pérez– until 2007. Similarly, Rincón led 24 Horas informs with Bustamante. The following year, Rincón took over the leadership of the cultural program La Cultura Entretenida («The Entertaining Culture»), a program of which she was also its journalistic editor for three years. For five years, she conducted 24 Horas on weekends.

In June 2001, along with fellow journalist Cecilia Serrano, she temporarily hosted the evening edition of 24 Horas, replacing Isabel Tolosa, who resigned to dedicate herself to being a journalistic editor for the service program, Buenos Días, Eli. This replacement lasted until July of the same year when the journalist María Jesús Sainz assumed the definitive leadership.

In 1998, she did her internship in the Canal 13 Press Department. In the same year, she was called to work in the Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) Press Department, and –from then on– she began reporting and doing dispatches. She has made reports abroad in countries such as France, Nicaragua, Argentina or Mexico.

In 1994, she participated in the Miss 17 beauty pageant.

Mónica Patricia Rincón González (born 17 December 1975) is a Chilean journalist known for her current work in CNN Chile alongside Daniel Matamala.