Dame Valentina Alazraki Crastich (born in January 1955 in Mexico City) is a Mexican journalist and writer, correspondent of Noticieros Televisa at the Vatican since 1974 and W Radio since 2005.

Her relationship with Karol Wojtyła started on the eve of his first travel to Mexico, when she hid herself behind plants at the entrance of the Paul VI room, and surprised the pope with a ‘charro’ hat on her hands.

She interviewed the pope many times;[citation needed] one of them was when the political relationships were restored between Mexico and the Holy See in September 1992.

During the five apostolic travels of John Paul II to Mexico, she interviewed him in the airplane and thanked him personally for the efforts done for her country.

[citation needed] In April 2005, after covering the months of agony of John Paul II, she announced to Mexico and to Latin America that the Polish pope died at 9:37 in his private apartment.