A superior journalist who can memorize the Constitution, or at least read it with the same expertise as the judges who have to interpret it, will always be remembered in its diminutive form.
Well Bonifacio de la Cuadra (Úbeda 1940), journalist Country This newspaper will go down in history with the most popular abbreviation of national journalism since it started broadcasting in 1976: Bone. Your great friend, partner, in the Pyresa agency and the aforementioned newspaper, galician suncommemorates him for his professional merits, which adorns him in his usual newspaper as editor, teacher, Parliament correspondent and, above all, a keen translator of our Magna Carta. And Sol has underlined the way he has been referred to as a diminutive since the day he became known in his profession for the virtues that make his contribution to this profession outstanding.
He taught us all this, as journalism had no secrets for him. For some reason that is not learned in schools, but without its teachings, schools will have no real relevance to the essence of business. He was a journalist who checked to report back when reporting was a civic duty, and It lasted until the end of his professional career (never relinquished his commitment from 1976 until his retirement) Country) passion for what is known about the truth. Gallego Díaz was fighting for it when he went with José Luis Martínez and Federico Abascal. dialogue notebooks, The rebuttal of what would become the Spanish Constitution. He explained to this company all the details of what is now part of our core issue of coexistence, and he participated in the toughest patriotic statement in its history (and its history) as a democrat and journalist. 23F’s attempt. He was one of the informants Country He said he was inside the Cortes building and was in danger of being deported by the attackers because, as Sol remembers, he hadn’t stopped taking notes and turning them into testimonies that would later form part of his books and teachings.
At this level, Bonifacio de la Cuadra, in addition to teaching in schools and in crowds, used his experience to warn society about the future, always targeting knowledge, away from the current madness that leads to interpretation that no one is saying. experiences shared in difficult times when knowledge must be sought in the swamps of silence of dictatorship or the dark years of democracy.
Boni was above all a good person; Its bold Andalusian irony always awaited the intelligence of others., so that when he finished listening, he felt free to say at least the penultimate word. At a time when parliamentary debate was the essence of the future and there was no longer any speculation about the influence of the past on the present, his wisdom about two worlds, dictatorship and the world that demanded the restoration of freedom, was largely a first-class journalistic and civic tool.
This attitude, which favors the pleasure of knowing and learning to inform, is also reflected in his admiration for the journalism of others, which he talks about generously and unhurriedly. His relationship with his colleagues led him, above all, to share with Sol Gallego the decisive discoveries concerning the trade of his time; taught me to travel as far as possible in unprofessional lands, to cite one of many examples. envy. It was not teachers who loved the profession of others’ contempt for teaching; They encouraged learning that made incoming journalists better as they continued to learn from what was going on and what it helped to understand.
He had a feature that came to my mind when he was fired so recently at the funeral home. ramon wolf, a colleague of mine warned me about what was going on with Boni’s health. At that moment, I remembered how he was asking, how did you see life, and what we journalists ask ourselves while investigating what is really going on around us.
The truth is, you felt that she was asking everything that was said to you, but in reality Boni just used her eyes to feel like you needed to tell her something about your health, about the development or development of your ideas. first and foremost as a journalist, as a human being, as always a good person, about what’s going on in the latest news in the worlds to which he is connected. He looked you in the eye and asked you everything, and with those eyes, he did the best journalism the world could do. Spain harder and happierFor decades where he was an outstanding and unforgettable teacher. Unforgettable.