#EL SALVADOR DE LUTO PROFESSIONAL#

#EL SALVADOR DE LUTO PROFESSIONAL#

I remember it was he who helped us move to the first apartment we rented in Toronto we just arrived, And that all our belongings fit in your van! Arturo was a great person, honest, helpful, trustworthy, but above all also a great radio broadcasting professional who stood out throughout his life for his powerful voice and passion for what he did. Arturo and my wife, who before coming to Canada was teaching radio production at the Jesuit University UCA and worked as a reporter for YSUCA radio, they understood each other perfectly and worked together until Arturo got rid of the program due to lack of time.

I met Arturo in January of 2002, on the radio Ondas Hispanas Canal 2, where he had a radio show that, if my memory doesn't fail me, it was called “Here Central America”. His friends there still remember him, because some of them flooded the networks with photographs of the time and condolences to their family. He was an announcer and presenter on Radio YSU and on Canal 10 of TV, among other local media. Gutiérrez passed away in Toronto several weeks ago, while Hernández-Marroquín died in New Jersey, U.S, two weeks before.Īrturo Gutiérrez arrived in Canada at the beginning of the decade of the 90 as a political refugee after working on radio and television in his native El Salvador and receiving death threats. It's about the social communicators Arturo Gutiérrez, Salvadoran origin, and Néstor Hernández-Marroquín, of Guatemalan origin. Two very well-known people in the community of Latin American origin in Canada have recently perished because of this terrible virus. But it has also affected young people, dynamic and healthy, regardless of nationality, religion, race, sex or political affiliation. Among its thousands of victims, COVID-19 took two of its great representatives in the media: Canadians Arturo Gutiérrez, Salvadoran origin, and Néstor Hernández-Marroquín, of Guatemalan origin.įor all those lovers of conspiracy theories who still believe that COVID-19 is just an invention of governments and large corporations, and it really doesn't exist, let me tell you that when death knocks on your doors is when those unsubstantiated theories end.Īnd the pandemic has knocked on the doors of the Latino community with insistence for the past three months, attacking especially the elderly and those with medical conditions. The community of Latin American origin in Canada is in mourning.

El salvador de luto