Juan Carlos López is Senior Political Anchor for CNN en Español in Washington D.C.López has collaborated as a reporter for CNN since 1993. He anchors Directo USA. Since joining CNN en Español in 2000, López has covered important stories landing outstanding interviews with President Barack Obama, President George W. Bush, President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Senator Mel Martínez, Senator John McCain, former Secretary of Homeland Defense, Michael Chertoff, Senator Christopher Dodd, and former Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, among others.Also, Juan Carlos Lopez, was part of the panelist on the first Democratic Presidential Debate in October 2015, on the way to the 2016 Primaries Elections. A native of Bogotá, Colombia, López has a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. He also completed studies at Gabriel García Marquez 's Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano in Cartagena, Colombia and the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. He is fluent in Spanish and English.