Osvaldo Villazon, award winning Bolivian journalist and renowned Hispanic Television Host and Producer, started his professional career in 1971 in San Francisco as host of a community show at KEMO-TV, the first Hispanic full time station in San Francisco, California. Later, he was in charge of two radio programs at KBRG and KQED-PBS.

He was also involved in theater, founding a Latin group and organizing the First International Theatre Festival, at the University of San Francisco. In 1972, he also headed the cultural exchange between San Francisco and the University of Sonora, that included the first trip to Mexico of the acclaimed group "San Francisco Mime Troupe", in a program organized by Casa Hispana de Bellas Artes.

During his permanency as Executive Director in "Casa Hispana de Bellas Artes", the oldest cultural agency until 1982, he helped to the needs of the new Latin immigrant community that at the beginning of the decade in the 70's, began to have a more complete vision on their cultural, social and political situation.

In 1976, after graduating with Honors in Broadcasting, he decides to dedicate his life to the service of the Hispanic Community joining as intern at KDTV Channel 60, flaming station of the S.I.N. network (now Univision), being hired as staff member in 1978, where he began to write part of the History of the Hispanic Television in the United States. He worked as technical director, camera director, operations supervisor, cameraman, editor, reporter, news anchor, producer and news director, having placed the station, with his effort and vision, among the most important in the Bay Area, obtaining in 1986 the prestigious George Foster Peabody award for Community Service, and a special Commendation from San Francisco City Hall for all the professional work.

In 1988, KDTV creates the department of Public Relations and Villazon is named as its first Director of Community Liaison. In October of 1989, is called by Univision's management in Los Angeles to train new producers at KMEX, a difficult decision that would open new horizons in the emergent Hispanic Television. At KMEX he was in charge to organize and launch its new weekend newscast, to produce the political show Voz y Voto, as well as all community affairs programs.

With more than 30 years of continuous work he decided for personal reasons to retire voluntarily from the biggest institution of the Hispanic Television in the United States at which he worked witnessing the modest beginnings up to its gigantic development. In December of 2006, he was called to be part of another television network with base in Mexico: TV Azteca. For more than two years he was the Executive Producer of the National Newscast at Azteca America, up to the obliged closing of the News Department due to the financial crisis.

Learning from the journalistic coverages, Villazon has been witness of the social and political changes of the Hispanics in the United States as well as in Latin America; from the protests against the war in Vietnam and its consequences, the fight for the implementation of the Civil Rights, the struggles of the farm workers, the pursuit to undocumented immigrants, the periods of discrimination, as well as the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, the fall of military dictatorships, the war in El Salvador up to the implementation of democracy in Latin America, without leaving aside the community help for natural disasters as the devastating earthquakes in Mexico and El Salvador, or the Armero's tragedy in Colombia.

The experience achieved during more than 40 years of residing in the United States, being a witness of the changes in the community, form a unique period that also touches the artistic and intellectual Latin side, that gradually has been giving a successful draft and recognition.

Osvaldo Villazon was born in La Paz, Bolivia, is a father of two twin children: Raquel, who is a graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandise in Los Angeles, and Osvaldo Villazon III, (Ozzy), who is a film director and member of the graduate's student body of the most prestigious cinematographic school: American Film Institute. He is also grandfather of three children of her daughter Raquel.

He is also author of a program in Spanish of Rapid Education on Journalism in Television, and nowadays is writing two books for a prompt publication.