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“Simply journalist-reporter-interviewer. She wanted to study theater, they didn’t let her. Journalism was her other love.”.
This is how it was described Manola Robles. “The news is his life”, he added in his first blog, although he did not advance much, then he preferred to write -on rare occasions- on the site I edited: Opinion.cooperativa.cl.
Manola, “Girl“OR “Me”. It all depended on who he was and when he met her. Manola It was formal, with respect; he “girl” It was from the radio of the 80s; and “Me” it was usual among his new co-workers, when he returned to the media after his “diplomatic” life and got into the digital world.
The “Hand” died this Sunday, January 3, 2021, after the worsening of the disease that he preferred to keep only his family aware of, because It was neither an issue nor an excuse when it came to working. Even in those hours when I was not supposed to workLike very early on Sundays, because someone always sent a column and wanted to review it.
“The truth is not traded” was another of his premises. Also work on January 1, to start each year with work, because the unemployment after the military coup of 1973 marked her.
Manola Robles arrived at Radio Cooperativa in 1979, becoming one of the most emblematic voices of the station’s Press team, in the midst of the dictatorship and the increasingly massive protests against Pinochet.
But in fact his front was the economic one: “In the Cooperative I always reported the economy, but the memory that people have is of Manola-protests. There were protests, but not every day. What I did every day were financial notes, “he recalled in 2000 in an interview.
Journalist from the University of Chile, he was also part of the radio press teams farming, Chilean and Was well as magazines Plan, New Latin American Policy and 7 days, Besides the EFE Agency and Diary Ya, both from Madrid.
Among the various recognitions to his career are the III Latin American Journalism Award (1988), Andina Bottling Journalism Award (1998), Radial character archi (1999) and The Republic University Award (2004).
After the return of democracy, he accompanied President Patricio Aylwin on all his tours of Europe, Asia and America.
In December 2000, Manola edited and hosted for the last time the second edition of El Diario de Cooperativa, to start a journey as a press attaché at the Chilean embassies in Argentina and Spain.
After returning to Chile, joined Cooperativa’s Digital Media team in 2011, as Opinion editor, being responsible for the columnists section of Cooperativa.cl.
“It was a bag of old iron the compu”commented on WhatsApp last October. She was right, the “jar” was no longer enough and for a workaholic like her it was unpresentable, even when she had little strength.
Goodbye “Hand”.
