Daniel Coronell

Daniel Alfonso Coronell Castañeda (Bogotá, October 25, 1964)[1] is a Colombian journalist and Businessperson[2][3] shareholder of the media Plural Comunicaciones.

[8] For fourteen consecutive years he has been chosen as the most-read columnist by opinion leaders in Colombia according to a 2020 poll carried out by the agency Cifras y Conceptos.

Among others, the case of Yair Klein, the negligence of the Colombian government to guard Pablo Escobar during his incarceration, revealed the calls that linked Ernesto Samper with Elizabeth Montoya of Sarria, and numerous complaints related to the former president including the illegal purchase of parliamentary votes that allowed his re-election, a scandal known as yidispolitica.

[23] According to Coronell's own research,[24] confirmed by the authorities, the former congressman Carlos Náder Simmonds, who resides in Spain and is mentioned by Fernando Garavito.

Coronell and his family decided to come back to Colombia in July 2007, where a few months later, as a result of his op-eds and news reports critical of President Uribe's government, he had an improvised argument with the latter on-the air, through La FM, a national radio network.

[25] NTC, with Coronell as director and one of the main shareholders, developed a pilot program with the company Imagen y Sonido, owned by the extradited drug trafficker Justo Pastor Perafán.

[27] Marco Antonio Cañon, a partner of NTC, stated in a recording that the pilot “cost about one hundred and something million” and that “All of us (the partners of NTC) knew who Pastor Perafán was… My 10% was Pastor’s 10%… If it hadn’t been for Imagen & Sonido, Daniel Coronell wouldn’t be what he is today, and the pilots that were made, which cost a fortune, wouldn’t have been done.” In that same recording, Cañon asserts that Coronell knew that the person behind Imagen y Sonido was Perafán.

In the case of the free trade real estate development, the justice system in multiple instances ruled in favor of the Uribe Moreno brothers and declared that there had been no damage to administrative morality.