With emotional words, the Colombian Caribbean correspondent closed its cycle against viewers with their inseparable companion.
News Colombia.
During the morning broadcast of Caracol news of this Thursday, July 31, the viewers witnessed an emotional farewell. Carlos Cataño Iguarán, recognized Colombian Caribbean correspondent, announced his retirement from the news and his step to retirement, after 35 years of delivery and commitment to journalism.
From Cartagena, the city that saw him report innumerable stories, Cataño closed his professional cycle with a message loaded with gratitude. “I want to take advantage to thank you, I have received only gestures of love, but above all to viewers who have valued my work a lot during all these years,” he said in his latest report.
The journalist took advantage of his farewell to reflect on the most difficult moments of his career, especially the coverage of violent events in the Montes de María, who marked him deeply.
“The coverage of those episodes of massacres, for forced displacement … that is a passage that the country should not repeat and that I would particularly not experiment because I would have no value to do so,” he said, making a call to national reconciliation. “I invite reflection, to participate in an understanding, a much more accurate, more assertive language, more tolerant among Colombians,” he added.
Julio Torreglosa, his inseparable partner, also says goodbye
The farewell was not just from Cataño. Julio Torreglosa, a cameraman who accompanied him for more than three decades, also announced his outflow of the news. With 45 years in the trade and 32 with Carlos, his words also excited many.
“I have learned a lot next to this man … today we say goodbye to the news because we already got what we always yearn for: a pension, that we are few who get there,” Torreasa said.
Carlos Cataño and Julio Torreglosa not only covered news, they also forged a deep friendship and built a story of the Colombian Caribbean with sensitivity and humanity. His departure leaves a vacuum, but also a lesson of commitment, ethics and respect.
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