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In a private ceremony at the Catholic Cemetery, his family and friends will say their last goodbye today to the Iquique cartoonist Carlos González, creator of an emblematic character on Chilean television since the seventies: the dog Tevito, who was an icon of National Television from its creation until the 1973 coup.
The northern artist passed away on Friday at the age of 75. González began his artistic work in 1969 on National Television, when he created the animation of Tevito, which was a characteristic image and was part of the continuity of the channel. “At first I thought of him as a Chilean pumice, but in the end I transformed him into a dog. And the name I was thinking of giving him was my pet, Pachacho, but when we presented him on TVN the announcer Agustín Inostroza named him Tevito and not like that. more was left, “Gonzàlez said in an interview.
The creative also spoke of censorship during the dictatorship. “When Pinochet took office, on National Television they burned almost all the films, except for nine or ten that an official of the channel protected and gave me … Over time I declassified the evil I did by transforming Tevito into a rabbit, who appeared in the broadcasts during the time of the military, but Tevito never stopped being a figure who became very popular and loved, “revealed González, to whom today his companions and the immortal character who, on the screen, danced like a chinchinero to the sound of the music of Víctor Jara.
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