Oscar Yanes

Oscar Yanes

Oscar Armando Yanes González (born 25 April 1927 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan journalist and writer.

Yanes is considered a pioneer in Venezuelan television journalism, particularly in the televised interview. He has become famous for his historical research revealing disconcerting events in Venezuela History, and his television program Así son las Cosas (The way things are). Yanes has been awarded three times the National Prize of Journalism, and he received First Prize from the Association of Writers of Venezuela in the contest Biographies of Famous Venezuelans, for his book Carlos J. Bello, el Sabio Olvidado (Carlos J. Bello, the Forgotten Sage). He also won the Silver Book Prize in 1992 awarded by Planeta Publishing, for the largest book circulation of the year.