Beatriz de Jesús Sánchez Muñoz (born 24 December 1970) is a Chilean journalist and politician. 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. 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. 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. Family and education She studied at the Saint Paul College in Viña del Mar, a private Christian-Anglican institution. The daughter of two university academics, during her school days. she went on a study trip to Great Britain, while her father did postgraduate studies. Later on, she studied journalism at the University of Concepción. She has been married for 28 years to Pablo Aravena, whom she met at university, with whom she has 3 children: Diego, Sebastián, and Pablo; The first of them she had at the age of 19, while she was in her second year of journalism, and she has stated that at that time she considered performing an abortion, but finally decided to have that child. Career Radio 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). 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