Sports journalist Carlos Antonio Vélez referred to his son’s departure from the station.
News Colombia.
Luis Carlos Velez announced this Thursday, October 3, that he is leaving the direction of La FM after being in charge of the microphones of the station that belongs to RCN for seven years.
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Vélez said goodbye to listeners and his colleagues early in the morning with a message of gratitude for the time he spent on the air. The 46-year-old journalist said that he will work at La FM until next Tuesday, October 15 and that after his departure he will dedicate some time to his family, made up of his wife, Siad Char, and his two children.
“I’m leaving on the best terms”stressed the journalist who has appeared on RCN, Univisión and other television channels in Colombia and the United States, about the decision that he made known to his superiors at the station.
Here, the farewell of journalist Luis Carlos Vélez from the station:
#Attention | Luis Carlos Vélez closes a successful cycle after 7 years at the head of La FM de RCN. pic.twitter.com/jdPYk3qiZy
— The FM (@lafm) October 3, 2024
The departure of Luis Carlos Vélez from La FM comes days after the criticism he received from Caleños and social media users for undermining COP16, an environmental event where world leaders will meet to discuss biodiversity issues. , which will take place from October 21 to November 1 in the capital of Valle del Cauca.
“In which newscast would there be a record of COP16?” He asked his station colleagues the question and one of them answered that it was on TelePacífico, to which Vélez reacted with a mocking laugh, a gesture that It did not go down very well in the Cali community.
The following is his controversial opinion on COP16:
Luis Carlos Vélez not only mocks Telepacífico as a channel, he mocks the journalists who work in that medium. He despises them.
You don’t know where he is worse: as a person, journalist or colleague. A duck who has never done research in his life speaks as if he were Kapuściński. 😡 pic.twitter.com/y3Ajtgizm1
— Yamid López (@YamidLopezS) September 26, 2024
Although he did not mention it, many have attributed the departure of Luis Calos Vélez from the La FM station to that comment about the event, which he downplayed and insisted that it would not bring good returns for Cali’s economy, to the point of saying that It was better to organize an event like the Champions League final.
What his father, also journalist Carlos Antonio Vélez, said
«You stood up and said what needed to be said… not a step back! Better times will come… Success and truth have a price that must be paid. Good wind and good sea. “I am proud of what you did and are!” was the message that the sports journalist left on his X account after his son’s resignation from the La FM station.
You stood up and said what needed to be said… not a step back! Better times will come… Success and truth have a price that must be paid… good wind and good sea. I am proud of what you did and are! pic.twitter.com/nDZ6obsN5m
— Carlos Antonio Velez (@velezfutbol) October 3, 2024
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