Guillermo José Torres (born 1943) is a famous Puerto Rican television reporter. He was born in the city of Ponce, and his family was well positioned economically. By his teens, Torres and his family moved to the Ponce area of Mercedita, near the Mercedita Airport. 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... List of television reporters: Argentina Guillermo Descalzi Enrique Gratas Cuba Mirka De Arellano (on USA television, but Cuban) Mexico Maria Antonieta Collins Rosana Franco Blanca Gómez Joaquin Lopez Doriga Raul Peimbert Jorge Ramos Maria Elena Salinas Puerto Rico Junior Abrahams Maria Celeste Arraras Rafael Bracero Elwood Cruz Enrique Cruz... Ponce, the second largest city in Puerto Rico outside of the San Juan metropolitan area is named after the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León. ... Mercedita Airport in Ponce, Puerto Rico, is a medium sized airport which is able to accept jets of any size on its runways. ...

Torres' brother, Carlitos, was a show host at a local radio station in Ponce. Guillermo José tagged along one night and he was impressed by the equipment at the station. Guillermo José was sent by his brother Carlos to throw out some papers containing old news, but Guillermo Jos&eacute took the papers to another room instead, reading them aloud. His brother discovered Guillermo José 's talents by opening the microphones near which Guillermo José was sitting. Guillermo Jos&eacute was not heard by a live audience, his performance at that moment could only be heard by those occupying the studio; however, his brother was so impressed that he encouraged Guillermo José to audition for national radio stations.

Torres then moved to San Juan, where he met Julio Torres Soto, a show host at WKAQ-Radio, who became like a brother to Guillermo José. Torres Soto, ironically, found a job for Guillermo José at WKAQ's rival station, WAPA-Radio, owned by WAPA-TV. San Juan is the capital of Puerto Rico. ... Televicentro is a Puerto Rico-based television station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission as the call letters WAPA-TV, Channel 4, for NTSC television and WAPA-DT, Channel 27, for digital television. ...

While his popularity across Puerto Rico began to grow, Guillermo José was called to serve the United States military, so he enlisted in the Army and went to the Vietnam War. Later on, he also served with the National Guard. When he returned to Puerto Rico in 1967, he married his girlfriend Mirna. He returned to his radio job; WAPA-TV, however, wanted to find a new television news man. Torres then went to a conference where he met WAPA-TV cameraman Agripino Segarra, who told him that he had fixed an appointment for Torres at WAPA-TV for that afternoon. He was hired as a news reporter for Noticentro 4 immediately. A nations army is its military, or more specifically, all of its land forces. ... The Vietnam War was a war fought roughly from 1957 to 1975 after the North Vietnamese government secretly agreed to begin involvement in South Vietnam. ... The United States National Guard is a significant component of the United States armed forces military reserve. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Noticentro 4 is a television news show in Puerto Rico. ...

Torres then experienced a wave of personal and professional triumphs, beginning with the birth of his daughter Daynna. He worked alongside Tommy Muniz as co-host of Borinquen Canta, and he was asked by Luis Vigoreaux to do the voice announcements for the sponsors of Pa rriba Papi, pa rriba! (this job did not require Torres to appear on camera, what he had to do was announce products as the products were shown to the tele-viewer). Torres also became the anchor man of Noticentro 4s weekend program. Tommy Muñiz (born approx. ... Luis Vigoreaux (April 12, 1929-January 17, 1983) was a Puerto Rican show host, comedian and producer. ...

Many changes during the 1970s led to the eventual naming of Torres as anchor man of the daily shows also. Soon after, Enrique Cruz, Luz Nereida Velez, Pedro Rosa Nales and Rafael Bracero, among others, would join him. Torres was also director of the news department at WAPA-TV. Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of transition between the turbulent 1960s and the more conservative 1980s and 1990s, many of the trends that are associated widely with the Sixties, from the Sexual Revolution... Luz Nereida Velez (born circa 1958) is a famous television reporter from Puerto Rico. ... Rafael Bracero (born approx. ...

In the early 1980s, Torres was substituted by Cruz as director of the news department. Nevertheless, he still continues as an anchor man for Noticentro. Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ...

Also see

• List of famous Puerto Ricans