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The world of culture and journalism in the Colombian Caribbean is mourning the death of the journalist Dolores Salcedo Castañeda – better known as Lola Salcedo – which occurred this Sunday in Puerto Colombia. According to preliminary information provided by the authorities, Salcedo was found dead at 8:40 am and her death was due to a personal decision.
In one of her latest tweets (on December 30), the 70-year-old woman had written: “For more INRI, I ended this 2020 with a tremendous runny nose, locked in my room and wanting to wake up tomorrow on another planet, another spiritual plane, another civilization: will you attend to my dream up there, where do you decide the destinies of men when they sleep? “
Daughter of Guillermo Castañeda, she was a member of a family of journalist brothers: Rafael (now deceased), editor of AFP in Paris and of El Tiempo in the Caribbean; and Guillotín, a Miami-based cartoonist.
The prominent Sunday columnist, who wrote until last year in the pages of EL HERALDO, was commissioned by the Barranquilla Carnival Foundation to lead the research team that for 12 months prepared the 146-page dossier that was presented to the Unesco for the declaration of the festival as Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
In her career, she actively participated both in social networks and in her practice as a cultural student, which led her to be a commentator on radio programs and an advisor on memory issues around Carnival and the Barrio Abajo, where she was much appreciated. Precisely in the heart of this neighborhood is the Casa del Carnaval, whose restoration it contributed.
She was also the general editor of Diario del Caribe in its golden age. He wrote the novel Una passion impresentable (1994), a portrait of the Barranquilla bourgeoisie narrated with “a crude, lively and humorous style”, as his review points out, in the context of the generation born in the 1950s.
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