Alonso Urrutia and Emir Olivares
Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, August 11, 2022, p. 13
On the occasion of one more anniversary of the death of Jaime Avilés, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador remembered him yesterday at the National Palace during his morning conference: he was a great journalist
said of the former collaborator of the day, who stood out to have been a man of convictions and principles
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The president dedicated a space to him because We remember him with great affection, because Jaime was a very good journalist, he was trained from a young age in the independent press. We were very close friends, a person who did not care about material things, who was pure heart
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He mentioned that Avilés emerged with the newspaper One plus oneforged after the blow to the newspaper Excelsior, in the mid-1970s. “He was trained from a young age in the independent press; Jaime was there, and when he was created the day, happened to the day.
▲ Jaime Avilés passed away in August 2017. In the image, during the presentation of a book by Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2012.Photo Guillermo Solloguren
“He was a great, great journalist; furthermore, a man with convictions, with principles, poor, nothing, to do with these famous journalists who live in large residences and who have apartments abroad and… no, no, no, Jaime was something else entirely. As a writer, first, a prose that is not read or there are not or there are few who write like him, as he wrote. Yes there are good ones, but he was the best. And he even has novels and it’s a tribute to him.”
Avilés passed away in August 2017, more than a year before the arrival of López Obrador to the Presidency.
