POST 6: Learning to read

To be honest, I’m a not a good reader. When I was a child I didn’t read so much, but when I started to grow up I began to enjoy the lecture. In the high school, I read more and and I could know a lots of writers and also I had to read books in english. Although I was not a good reader in my first year of university everything change. I had to read minimun 4 books for each subjects so in only one year I read more than in all my life.

Since that time to now, I can say that i have read more than 100 books of differents topics.

I enjoy reading fiction because I can use my imagination and travel to parallel worlds. But in the great majority of the time I read non-fiction books, because is more useful for my career. I dind’t have a favorite books or writer, but I enjoy reading to Patricio Riveros. 

Now I’m reading since 6 month a novel called Rayuela by Julio Cortazar that is about a love story. Is a very good book but I haven’t finish it yet.

POST 5: Raquel Correa, a great journalist

On september 10th, Chile lose one of the most famous journalist, Raquel Correa.

She first studied pychology but then she stuidied journalism, starting her career in 1950. She worked in El Mercurio, Canal 13 and Radio Cooperativa. She worked during the dictatorship including dissenting voices into her writing. For example, in 1988, she interviewed to Ricardo Lagos, that was a opositor to the Pinochet’s goverment.

For this reason she was the winner in 1991 of National Journalism Prize Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Also, she was a awesome interviwer! And she could interview Teresa of Calcutta, Augosto Pinochet, Sebastián Piñera, etc.

The journalist, published books like “Preguntas que hacen historia,” that was a book with her interviews during 40 years, and “Ego Sum Pinochet,” with the interviews to Agusto Pinochet, the former dictator.

One of the most controversial interview was the Sebastián Piñera’s interview, after “Piñergate”. This was a controversial scandal because in that time, 1992, the medios discovered a phone recording between the presidential candidate (Sebastián Piñera) and his friend, Pedro Díaz. They were planning something to the other presidential candidate, Matthei, take away her candidature.

When Raquel Correa died, the Chile’s President, Sebastián Piñera said:  “I want to thank Raquel Correa because she always was a great defender of freedom of expression, of pluralism, even in times when they were not easy to defend”