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”