First
years
Guillermo
Cano Isaza was born in
Bogota, Colombia the August 12 of 1925. His parents were Gabriel Cano
and Luz Isaza
and descendant of the founder of the newspaper El Espectador. He
studied in the
Gimnasio Moderno in Bogota, and when he finished, he start working in
the
Espectador by another great writer… his father. He was the director of
the newspaper
since September 17, 1952.
Principal
Works
Through his career he won
many prices and write excellent articles of
important news. Guillermo was fortunate to traveling with his wife (Ana
Maria
Busquets) to the Olympics of 1972 in Munich. Colombia won the first
three
medals in history and he had to cover the Arab terrorist act that
killed eleven
Israelis athletes from his typewriter. In 1980 he celebrated the
centenary of
the birth of Don Fidel Cano, founder of “El Espectador”, and writes “El
abuelo
que nunca conoci” reason why he receives the award of Simón Bolivar.
Talents
According to Óscar Alarcón
Núñez, former worker of Guillermo, Cano not
only had the talent of journalism, but particularly he had a talent to
make the
titles. This could sound easy but has to be very concrete, introducing
the new
and has a limited space. One example of this talent is in the article
when the
conservatives were choosing presidential candidate between Pastrana,
Sourdis,
and Belisario Betancourt, he name the article: “Al rojo vivo la
convención
azul”. This means rojo for the liberals, but they were in elections of
a
conservative that means azul.
Murder
Pablo
Escobar ordered to kill him on December 17, 1986 in Bogota. Guillermo
Cano was
one of the most journalists against the narcotrafic, so Escobar and the
rest of
the mafia decide to kill him. Cano was going to his home with his
family, and a
pair of assassins kills him in front of the office with 8 shoots in his
chest.
The murder of Cano is still unpunished. In Honor of Guillermo Cano
Unesco
instituted the “Premio Mundial a la Libertad de Expresión Guillermo
Cano”.
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