February 2013
Enrique García Gordillo
"My world is journalism, I feel and I will die a journalist "
At Present colaborador in Canal Sur Radio, appointed socio de honor de la FAAP on February 2011 and Andalusia Journalism Prize 2006 by the radio program "Que te quiero verde", dedicated to 25 years of Andalusian autonomy. Recently awarded the Medal of Andalusia 2013 granted by the Governing Council of the Andalusian.
Journalist vocation, social democrat, andalucismo and committed to Sevilla, He attended the interview at his usual cafe Tomares (Seville), Furnace St. Thomas. In love with his work and grateful for the recognition it has received, as is the case of appointment as honorary member of the Andalusian Federation of Press Associations (FAAP) for his long and brilliant career in the service of journalism and Andalusia. "It had just instituted the award and I was the first to receive". The FAAP highlighted the dedication of the journalist as first spokesman of the Board at the time when our Community took the first steps to establish themselves as autonomous territorial entity. In the IV Congress of Journalists Andalucía day 4 and 5 February 2011 in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) held the ceremony of this distinction was appointed unanimously. "I thanked him very much because I came from my own colleagues and it gratified me especially in a very competitive world full of jealousy".
"BE DEFINED IN THE RIGHT TIME MY CAREER IN JOURNALISM"
Enrique García Gordillo, 2013
Enrique began his studies at the Faculty of Chemistry at the end of the 60 early 70. "We have pulled director La Voz de Guadalquivir (station of vertical organizations), Manuel Benitez Salvatierra, We grant a degree program a week ". His personal friend, Joaquín Durán (today deputy general manager and director of RTVA Canal Sur TV) This is occupied program. "One day I was sick and was in charge of the program. I discovered that what I liked and found it was my true vocation ". At first he worked as an amateur and over time you were ordering different jobs. "I came to have a program on what is now Stray television, called Human Zoo, that featured people who left the topic, how life is sought”.
One day the director Radio Sevilla, which at that time was Iñaki Gabilondo, Enrique was interested. "I had heard in the university program and asked me Durán. He sought an interview and I signed for Sevilla Radio ". By then Enrique continued his studies in chemistry and became responsible for the news. "Iñaki was a true revolutionary at the time. He is my master, undoubtedly, for being a pioneer in radio journalism, by his understanding of the craft and what this job for society. Knowing that we owe to a company that listens to us, to which must be addressed in an attitude of service, without feeling superior, but being responsible for what we say will be listened very carefully ".
This was the moment that Henry realized his true calling. "I realized where my future, I was 'poisoned' with journalism and particularly with the radio ". He combined his work in Radio Sevilla and studies relying on a salary of about 12.000 pesetas of the time. "I devoted body and soul, only rested one day a year that closed the station, Saints Friday. Sundays or public holidays, I wanted to become a site in Radio Sevilla because it was a very important means ". Thereafter, was making a hole in Radio Sevilla and made several contributions to other media. The career of Chemistry not reached finish. "It required a lot of attention for being a pilot career, but Radio Sevilla had great success, is heard on FM arriving in Madrid ". I was forced to choose between faculty and Radio Sevilla. "He was no amateur, radio required a professional requirements and chose journalism ". When he acquired a great status within journalism, tried to make a career in journalism. "Honestly it bored me, for me having or not having the title does not appeal to me especially. Having to start studying things that I knew did not make me feel comfortable and gave up ".
Despite discover and prefer from the moment the radio world, Enrique has also participated in other media. "I had a page on the Pueblo Journal, very important newspaper of vertical organizations and went correspondent Periódico de Catalunya". He has also participated in television but believes that his world is the radio. "As I consider myself a competent professional is the radio environment". The phrase that characterized his career is "to be in place and at the right time".
Proclamation of the Autonomy Andaluza
Andalusia agreed to autonomy by so-called "fast track" contained in the Spanish Constitution 1978. Following this procedure, was established the Autonomous Community of Andalusia 28 February 1980. Enrique took sides in the process through the implementation of an Andalusian information on the SER from 1976 a 1979 which aired at eight o'clock done since the central newsroom in Seville. "We call on all Andalusia to a common table when even the Andalusian flag was not recognized". Since that program made a fundamental task, becoming a communication tool for Andalusians. "We call on the Andalusians to the manifestations of 4 December 1977, It was the first loud cry of Andalusia ". They came to have such an impact that newspapers echoed their voices. "Awareness was created and was forging the concept of 'Andalusian country’ to refer to Andalucía ". The informational SER "was not a tool, because it would be false modesty, but an essential ". When Rafael Escuredo He became president of the Board 1979 after the first municipal elections Enrique was called to be part of your team and came as Secretary General of the Media, responsible for all issues of the Board, was then pre-autonomic. "We approached the autonomy of the Andalusian city councils, all 28 February, the first elections autonomi-cas and agrarian reform ". Enrique was in a privileged place. "He shared car with President, door to his office because my office was very confident ". In elections in May 1982 the first autonomous government in history was formed and Enrique took over Government Spokesperson. "I launched what was to be the third television channel, Canal Sur ". He held that position until 1984 when there was the resignation of Escuredo. "The whole team came away with him when he resigned".
A Real story
His five years as government spokesman have given time to meet many people and live funny situations. On one occasion, the King Juan Carlos and Sofia made a visit to Granada. The president of the council held a luncheon in Huéscar (province of Granada). "That lunch will have been the most expensive in history, being away from the capital had every hundred yards a policeman on the road tucked into the trees to keep pace of kings ". The president of the council belonged to UCD while Ra-fael Escuredo and his team were socialists. "They were rivals politically". The president of Granada, by then Pepe Sánchez Fabra had a nursing home and when the team arrived Escuredo including Enrique showed them stay. "Before I came Entourage Reyes excluded Escuredo receipt of the King, telling us to stay at the residence while he would receive in a nearby chapel ". At the time of arrival of the Kings, They made their stop at the residence where the team was with Enrique Escuredo. "The queen had a physical type emergency that forced him to go to the bathroom urgently. The King stood with us and to hear the bells of the chapel, I could not help but laugh thinking that the others were waiting there ".
Unpleasant moments in his career.
"The biggest news I had to give was awesome flooding in the Rabita (Almería) where they died around 250 people ". A downpour swept dry wadis and became a river of mud burying people in-tero. "We were walking on the houses where we knew there were dead people". Declares that was a dramatic situation and one of the hardest experiences that he lived. "One sympathizes with the pain of the people but the journalistic skin makes you react being able to transform pain into a story. Highlight recrearte pain without it ". Despite the drama of the situation, It feels very pleased that work. "I was very young and was one of my first jobs. On another occasion where I felt that was a really important news and knew that people were reporting for the first time was with the disaster Aznalcóllar (Sevilla)". At dawn 25 April 1998 a raft of residues of highly polluting heavy metals broke two sides releasing large amount of liquid high acidity producing an incalculable ecological disaster. "I informed a colleague, I called the government delegation in Seville and was surprised at how we had learned ". Converged the immediate headlines, because no one knew at the time, with the importance. "I broke the news to the testimony of the deputy representative of Seville and Ronda Javier who went to the bridge Guadiamar and brought me down the testimony of how sewage". There were no casualties but was a major ecological disaster.
Another unpleasant for Enrique now was the time to announce the Segunda B down to Sevilla in August 1995, as sevillista declared it. "I opened the newsletter South Canal to this topic and a friend told me that my voice broke the news".
Enrique García Gordillo, 2013
Defensor de Andalucía
As an advocate of Andalusia be asked about whether it has exceeded the Andalusian topic in media. His answer yet, shows bitterness. "Unfortunately we have improved very little on this subject". Account in the stage where he worked in Radio Sevilla. "My boss demanded that I speak, for aesthetics, Valladolid in Castilian and I got ". It was the same time when children were required to read with a different accent wearing on the street. "The image of Andalusia was very deformed, caricatured and own signs of Andalusia as if they were caught in Spain whole. Certain clichés like parties, the vagueza, and others ".
There was a time in which the means of communication Andalusian worked in this area to improve the image of the Andalusian. "There were times around the 28 February in the media tried to convey positive and real signals on Andalucia ". However in this field ensures a long way to go. "It has lowered its guard. The image of Andalusia has not improved substantially and is still trying very lightly, deforming interesadamente what our culture, our history, our economy ". The national media are trying very frivolity Andalusian Andalusian land and not try to avoid media.
Andalusia Prize for Journalism 2006
Andalusia Prize for Journalism 2006 by the radio documentary "I want you green"Dedicated to 25 years of Andalusian autonomy issued in February 2005 in Canal Sur Radio. In the words of J. Felix Machuca "Enrique García won the Andalucia Journalism Award because very few better than he lived, they enjoyed and suffered the birth of the new land. It has been able to wrest from the sounds of silence that numb us EVP and political identity of a past that walk bent on leave at the height of the faces of Bélmez ".
A great recognition for a whole life radio, dedicated to serve the public, of an audience that deserves the truth, without cheating, with research ranging 'the bottom line' and are not confined to the superficiality of events. A working man, intelligent, familiar, concerned about Andalucía, their land and above all, journalist.
He is currently dump in their television and radio talk shows on the Electoral Campaign 2015 in the next elections 22 March Andalucía.
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