Thank you Uniautonom

I’ve always tried not to talk about myself in public. I find it uncomfortable. This time, however, I am going to open this window in El Heraldo to thank the Life and Work Award granted by the Autonomous University of the Caribbean under the leadership of its Rector Mauricio Molinares Cañavera and, through him, to everyone from the directors and students who took part in the event last Thursday.

I have always avoided putting my personal life above my profession. I’m allergic to it. He had rejected these kinds of events. The journalist is a medium, not the news.

I received an Outstanding Young Person award from the Junior Chamber in the 1980s and a Life and Work from the Colombian Association of Sports Journalists, ACORD.

Having accepted to receive the Mario Ceballos Araujo Prize, I had the privilege of spending a fantastic evening. The academic atmosphere, the presence of the journalistic association, guests from all walks of life, the carnival makers, the prizes and the anecdotes told there, gave me the feeling of peace of knowing that journalism is safe despite the digital world.

Because automatisms do not have a human brain that produces feeling, desire, love and tenacity. They also can’t handle congratulations and sincere hugs and can’t produce happy laughter and nostalgic tears like that night.

Thanks to the university, to Mauricio Molinares, to its directors, to Belinda García and her battalion of tireless little ants, to Stefy Uribe, to Víctor López and Richard Dejanon who were kind enough to propose my name, without my knowing it.

And to the good Lord, who gathered under the pretext of the awards ceremony to listen to the journalists who emotionally tell the anecdotes about those excellent works of which we are proud…