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Good news sometimes doesn’t come alone. Mexico won in baseball, but Carlos Payán, a real journalist, died. Hug family, colleagues and friends.
– Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_)
March 18, 2023
the daythe newspaper he founded, described Payán tonight “as a staunch defender of human rights and social struggles, as well as a great provider of cultural projects.”
“His humanist, supportive formation, commitment to the causes of workers, peasants, and indigenous people, arose from a very young age, when he joined the Communist Party in 1958, at just 29 years of age,” the newspaper detailed.
In addition to being a journalist and writer, Carlos Payán was a senator in the Congress of the Union between September 1997 and August 2000.
Politicians and journalists have lamented the death of Payán in the last few hours:
The Political Coordination Board and the Board of Directors regret the sensitive death of former senator and recipient of the 2018 Belisario Domínguez Medal, Carlos Payán, renowned Mexican journalist. pic.twitter.com/bdQkTgKZu4
— Senate of Mexico (@senadomexicano)
March 18, 2023
Splendid photograph of the beginning of @LaJornada: Carlos Payán, the ship’s captain, founding director; with Carmen Lira, current director; with Gabriel Garcia Marquez; with Miguel Angel Granados Chapa. Goodbye Carlos Payan pic.twitter.com/5nt9jv41hy
— Jenaro Villamil (@jenarovillamil)
March 18, 2023
Carlos Payán Velver, a great educator of journalists and consciences, died tonight at the age of 94.
Those of us who owe him so much are in mourning. pic.twitter.com/xKJdvdgSsV
— Temoris Grecko (@temoris)
March 18, 2023
In December 2018, upon receiving the Belisario Domínguez medal, the journalist Carlos Payán recognized the triumph of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but reminded him that Mexico is a “motley” crowd that would seek to be heard by its government, “whether it is right or not.” .
“That indisputable and great vote marks López Obrador’s strength, but it also marks his weakness. More than half the country gave him his vote, but the country is all of us, everyone is a diverse crowd and each of its members will ask to speak, “he told him at the time.
