's Farewell Fernando Alegría Ramírez "FAR"
In his column in The Journal Samuray It!
Published on Tuesday August 24, 2010
Two days later, on Thursday at 1 o'clock in the morning he died.
The Samuray
Short Notes
Today August 24
Today is August 24 Our schedule is going fast and we put some in poor health, I hope you understand me, here I am writing these few very poor health, I beg pardon me but I can not write well, so far we lop this work.
Tomorrow is another day
Tomorrow God will say of my life, for the moment I'm really finished, I'm calling a doctor, but for us to review.
Since my retirement I gravity
Because my gravity I'm leaving this job, I pray you leave this column out, I can not write so I withdraw for some time order of physicians.
A salute to the Red Cross
warm regards to the youth of the Red Cross with whom I worked many years, I am very grateful to this institution for the support I found many years ago my work in the sensationalist. Take you into my memories, for the moment I'm really bad and I leave this job with the permission of the Grajales Cano brothers, God bless you at all times .
Identified by their distinctive style to give the note red Fernando Alegría Ramirez, better known as FAR, he is a cheerful, positive and very proud of his Zoque. He confesses that his nearly seventy years, believed to be about to close their life cycle. However, he has released countless accidents and deaths, not like that his death was recorded in a newspaper. The reason is that if his meeting with give the bony while enjoying their favorite food, run the risk of writing: the FAR "was killed by a neck of jolote." Joy is not only his surname, he is a representation of it. A talk with "FAR" is not wasted.
-FAR seal in the police information is unmistakable. What leads you to tell the stories of how they do it?
I started in the red note from 1968, until now, as we say, and it rained, but we are still ready to fight. I said Don Gervasio, and you never a dejar de escribir, hijo, vas a querer dejar y no vas a poder, la misma máquina te va a llamar, y es cierto.
–¿Se considera heredero de las enseñanzas de Gervasio Grajales?
No mucho, pero sí le agradezco algo de lo que él me enseñó y que Dios me iluminó para acertar. Hasta ahorita vamos sin tropiezo, gracias a Dios.
–¿Por qué cuenta las historias en esa forma tan, digamos, “cómica”?
¿Eso de que le partió la cabeza, le quebró el hueso, la tap? The phrases I use on all my items of note in red and all my notes for the radio and all my shares in public, do it with tuxtlecos terms because those terms mean. People who do not understand I write socially and less medical terms, so when there is a death and I for the data and tells me the doctor or the lifeguard, we found the prone, I understand what the prone but which I going to hear or read do not know what it is, then I say how it is: embrocate. So I say "The body was embrocate as Gabino Barrera" because, according to the run, Gabino Barrera fell as kissing embrocate land. But to write all that thoroughly, I think it is because I walked a lot of time walking when he was a Bohemian, because I was the canteen and do not drink right now but when I was young I took from 14 to age 38 years. And that trip also taught me a lot of experience.
"So you, and you are not going through any toucan.
No, I can not cross a toucan and a red label unless it is already more expensive.
"Then what is already" amampó "the soul?
already are wanting me amampar soul.
laugh After the surprise of the question, Ferdinand returns to the theme and said that before writing checks to see if his way of saying things is consistent with the information being handled, looking even some phrase from a song, it helps reinforce the image you want to project. "For example, when I say: it was found, there was homeless, sleeping on the sidewalk, then I can say, as Cuco Sanchez said 'the sky for a roof and I have no blanket over the sun,' and there it goes." Clarifies that "it is not force" that will see the body because for it is enough to be told how the body is and where is the projectile, because with that information and experience so many years in the case, you know where the robber stood, how he got the shot and how the deceased fell. "That to fall tatarateó, and if there are no traces of blood on the wall, insurance fell from his mouth."
-A part of the Red Cross and the Public Ministry, what other ways have to get your information?
Insurance [Social], the ISSSTE. Sometimes I say there is a dead man the ISSSTE, I'm fast and interviewed the family. In the hospital meeting a terrible picture: running blood to the patient, the mother or the woman crying on the side, which does not have a dime, he's going to be people who do not know what to do, then there is pain human, no longer questioned regarding what I know, but better talk to her, and did you tell him something, no, I tell you right now I come, I bring a coffee, whatever, and then I started to talk, that so and so my son is here, he got shot, I gave my friend, and there I took the data.
"The protagonists of his stories I congratulate him on demand or publish their cases.
There is no claim, including some fijate tell me you did this happen to so and so, [I say] but I said the other papers, [I answer] but I like to tell you, decyl, and there you say. Like, I do not know, I do not know what they like but in the radio frequency where I'm looking for people that where I was, ah, I find.
- And where is he?
I'm with Mr. Mario Aquino in ORM News Tassie in the EU. Behind Kaliman I go.
"So calm and patience ...
Yes, and look that is several times that I was born. I was born here in the neighborhood of La Lomita. A president wanted to blow the wall but confused the neighborhoods, here put Cerrito neighborhood and here it is. Here began the Lomita seventy years ago. A huge hill! A hill was.
Mr. Joy's face shows the emotion that makes you remember where you were born and grew up next to his parents and nine siblings. The house in which he played and heard his father talk zoque language, with the corner druggist. The smell of Chincua, the custard apple, mesquite, fruit that arose in the family courtyard.
- Why not publish photos of your notes?
Firstly I do not want to walk camera ... There go around with the camera, no, no. If there is any photo you give me the good, there is for publication, but for me to go there [to camera], no. No use or notebook to take data. Says one person out there who knows, "The only book that does not use all the time, is the FAR. Neither in the speeches or anything. What is hearing the speech and the day it is published as saying. "Sometimes, said Don Gervasio," The speech was made on television, copied by FAR. " Because what I copied and therefore light, [with] a sign that God made me that I invented and only I understand, is shorthand but only I know what you mean there. [When is said] Let's see, what will I put here? I'm going along and say, means Lourdes, for example.
- Have you considered a profession? Nothing more
sixth year of primary school in the ICACHE and fourth year of Normal, there [were] cut short my career because I took over the bar. Ja! I experience so I have to say these things, you're going to reach the owner but if you stop drinking, if not the bar you will absorb and you will break up, and there are going to be pulled, you will no longer be useful.
- The syntax and spelling errors are part of your style or are beyond their control?
are within my style. I've been telling me that Professor Gaspar Jiménez: syntax and all that is good but the important thing is that the reader understands, maybe not able to interpret, then simply tell them that. I thank God reject any suggestion, I accept everything, even Cobach students who say such a thing, [I answer] I'll analyze it to see who, if so, as they say. Because you never have to neglect or discard what you do not know, you must first learn to say that does not work, right? I am one of those.
- Death will cause laughter or fear?
Well, I do not cause death or laughter or fear, I see it as a natural thing you have to register .. And there is reason to mourn, is cause death with joy because it brings you out of trouble. It's a relief, for example, if you have an incurable disease, the family does not want to poison or you want to give a shot, only death is and takes it out of trouble. When you pass one into another dimension and is a more tranquil. After dying of a hangover, I just ninety days when the teacher died Agustín Lara, me and Don Gervasio, I dunno, it felt much death, but no, it was so, it is drinking. So I, in my crude ninety days! The guys [today] to get drunk one night, Mary!, And are dying, say those can not stand, no. Then she sighs and death and he continues. I wanted to die. Then came the death! He looked at me and said, now, and get me, stared at me, laughed and said no. He turned and went, and again left me in purgatory.
- And how did he quit?
Because I understood that alcoholism destroys and exit. Alcoholism just health, talent, sociology and all that ... social, cultural. For alcoholism is no barrier that will stop, then I learned, and I know that is a progressive and incurable disease. Since then I stopped drinking and started working with my friends and fellow drunks. That is the task that I have now thirty-two years [by].
- gives journalism for a living?
Well to eat them. To live all da work now to assume not. Because you have to understand things, to assume that this and the other, only that I'm PRI of the first order. But do not sell newspapers and reports, will not teach and write a new account of the Bible. Serves food and children and up there. If you get sick, then take your cinnamon tea!
- What other activities? I
business records, I do my newsletter, my newspaper, I get to deliver my newspaper, I get to ship, arrived in a tortilla dough raise, to lift pots, and there I am winning.
- How to combine that with his work in the newspaper?
Everything can be done, always running. Everything. Is that no one can say, Oh, I have no time, I'm here, I'm busy ... That's what the people who can not live, but we know life is going to be paired, you will say: until then I can. As I say, of 8:00 to 22:00 or talk on the phone because I will not answer, I'm in the [Alcoholics Anonymous]. If you killed a bishop, then I will go and fetch the data, is not going to run away and was killed, thank God he's dead, and not flee. Now, if an offender who is being held, there indeed can be stripped because it gives them [the authorities] a bill of five hundred police and released, is also not having much force the defendant and was jerking, lying, the police relented with a billetote, because "a Cuahtémoc" softens more than tallow.
- Until death with it!?
Yes I spoke many newspapers and I still talk to write. But I say: no, I am of You! The village tells the kid [distributor], give me a newspaper of FAR, they say the is! A FAR newspaper. Yes, here it is, the little kids know that is it is!
canasteros Are there on Calvary, when I pass I yell Don FAR, FAR gift! Damn, pure scum. I lower my car and I say What! Ya want your newspaper, there is one. Thanks Don FAR. Come and take a rice pudding! So when someone looks, neighbors say, yes, but Don FAR not you going to find, he is in the street eating with shippers, with the stevedores. These are the people. And look, all these people teaches you how to talk and even teaches you what happened and where is the customer, everything. But if you're going to show anger as the mother who lifts weights and he likes the box, do not say anything. I refer to the mother of the song that says, knows blacksmith and mechanic knows, lift weights and likes the box, then then that is a camotuda note and if I leave up to me, yes.
- What is your favorite movie or cop show?
I have no preference for film. Before I liked John Orol, gangster, the gambler, how to kill ...
"You identify with the characters.
Not very. I've never been addicted to it. Or television, unless I'm seeing the Bacardi, we take the quality, you set the goal that will take. No, I do not like. Or read novel. Leo newspaper, yes, national and international, preferably the [section] police.
- What about politics?
I can not say because he entered the very policy. It makes me despair. I've always said that there is neither political, rebels there. Ah! I'm going to sue the guy, that I'm going to sue. Well, what will Gabino Barrera?, What will Ignacio Bernal? Those of revolutionary ballads. What will Simon Blanco to these kids today? No, no, I can not speak of politics.
- What about justice?
Does the earth or the divine? Because there are two, the divine takes but it is effective.
- And the earth?
That I do not know, because it softens, as I said. Sometimes it is hard but if you put a billetón, softened, you're right, I think not, it is. Not that I want to pay, like the portrait that leads the ticket, so it expires.
FAR is convinced that Mexico has the best laws, the best constitution and does not need reform, but "there needs to be able to apply the law and everyone will be happy, but until there is a law applicable as such, there will be no peace. "It seems that the word" brings some memory, perhaps because their ancestors before leaving comments that has a premonition that he will die in May, "... because I was born in May. On May 30, 1934. And I have to die, I'm gonna close my cycle of life. "
- And how he would like his death was announced in the newspaper?
I think better not announce it if I died eating, like my favorite food holiday is the jolote, jolote mole and not any body part jolote but neck and neck, could say, "I killed a jolote nape" or "He went through his neck."
Laughter, like the FAR style is spontaneous. His sense of humor does not leave even when recalls that of his nine siblings, four have died. "Already reeling off the cob, but boys are not dying, I was the last and I have almost seventy years. Well, is the first how old is she? "
Fernando Alegría Ramirez, better known as FAR, 35 years doing shout the paper is red! and 30 on the radio. His style tuxtleco "to narrate the facts is unmistakable.
* interview published in Xmedia, Communication and Society, No. 3, September 2003
Interview with Fernando Alegría Ramírez (FAR)
Cristina Ortega Mandujano
Taken his blog:
http://www.sinapsisediciones.com
Where was published in the l join May 17, 2010
One of the protagonists of Tuxtla is gone, this capital city of the province and is now transformed into a modern city, with the style that all cities have gained is undoubtedly Fernando Alegría Ramírez, who achieved fame through journalism for its peculiar vocabulary, full of local idioms that are lost. The interview was conducted in 2005 and was transmitted radio. Will this evidence of an age that becomes myth.
FAR: As we said before, my name is Fernando Ramírez Alegría, "FAR." That the "FAR" has been born within journalism, when looking for my firm was going to introduce myself. Did not catch the name of Fernando Alegría Ramirez hit FAR, then said
Don Gervasio "FAR" is the star in the popular daily, for FAR is the hit.
CRIS: Where born you?
FAR: I was born in Tuxtla Gutierrez, in this neighborhood, in this set, in this house, nothing more than before, in 1934, when I was born, all this land belonged to my dad to average block, then had a house back there and there was a place I was born on May 30 de1934, as my mother told me at 05:00 am.
CRIS: What was your training?
FAR: We did not study much. At that time did not study well, for example, I spent my sixth year my high school my second two years of high school. Before classes but could still owes one to enter the second year, there was a regulating, we paid and we got into this field. And there we were, and was therefore in the system. Nothing more I got to the second year of high school for third, but this study I did on the night.
CRIS: What school?
FAR: In the August 21, some in the daytime and some at night, because when he was the third year I had already left. She did not want to return, but taking into account the circunstancias de la vida y qué bueno que lo hice volví a ingresar a la escuela y ya entré a terminar mi sexto. Como hay muchas carreras que veo que ahorita de grandes lo terminan y ya la carrera después que tuvimos tanto tiempo no lo hicimos.
CRIS: ¿Cómo inició el gusto por el periodismo?
FAR: Primero trabajé de maestro; desde 1959 hasta 67 trabajé de maestro rural, en Villa de Acala, en la escuela Emiliano Zapata. Escuela de gobierno. Era Director ahí, el finado profesor Romeo González Espinosa. De ahí, me mandaron a una colonia correspondiente a Tecpatán, llamada The New Covenant. But then you will not believe it's park, is saw the trunk of death, I got there in 1967 to 68, but there was no road, virgin forest, were making Raudales Malpaso Dam, had a terrible yellow iodine is suffers from the mountain, but it needs to go.
CRIS: did you live there?
FAR: There remains a master work, it is one if the horse goes.
Right now there are already road, I am told that since the new road passes by. But before it was Mount virgin hills, was up until we got there. I spent a school year.
CRIS: So when did it?
FAR: In 68.
CRIS: Where?
FAR: I first started writing in the People's Daily (En). In the evening. From Ahuizote started sending my reportitos and there gave him entry.
CRIS: But how he came there, who will offered a job?
FAR: No, is that in the Ahuizote was a popular house, everybody came and wrote and left his note.
CRIS: And what you wrote?
FAR: I started writing a bit about politics, the PRI, which over here ... But that gave input, but then I would rather focus on the sensationalist.
CRIS: There, in the Ahuizote paid him?
FAR: No, no, no, no more free, and the drunkenness that we got, because I was already big and let's have drink. That was the payment, with that we were happy.
When they made a car racing in the Morelos Park, but was not the park, sports stadium was named, then played football and ran there on Sundays cars, race cars, but the park was great Morelos ... was a vast expanse, we ran there, there was Alfonso "the queue" we used to call the son of Don Gervasio, a young chamacón and we were reading the Ahuizote who laughed, then said, "Who wrote it?" "FAR" There it was FAR, I had made, then says "Go, go on'ta my dad, back in the ES. There are going to work with him, you'll like what you write" The next day he went with his car and took me, I was still young.
CRIS: And what did Don Gervasio?
FAR: When he left his office Don Gervasio, Alfonso said, Where is the girl who goes to work here? Already read the requirements, it said. "You're going to start tomorrow son, begins here, but the only requirement to be able to work is that you know drink drink "was the only requirement, and I said" I stand and 40 days "," ah well, stay "I endured 40 days, was pure drunk, do not drink right now and thank God. Then I stayed. That year was to take the Olympics out of 68, I remember. I arrived in May as the head began to like me and wrote me and told me wound up and put him in this way as well.
was already in the red note. I started when I saw the policy report I did not like. I was in the social section, I did not like. I looked for the red note, the gang of reporters who we were before, to here and there, was very happy before.
Maybe my time has passed, the young right now we are happy because they are young. I started to grab the red note, he left the note as watermelon, red open, it opened a mameyaso, when the blood for as watermelon and that's what he looked for people, heads ... I continued writing my notes ... "Is very good son," said Don Gervasio, "check it forward", so I started working there since 1968 and I'm still.
CRIS: Do you remember what was the first Note that there covered in it?
FAR: The first note I wrote in it, no longer quite remember, but some friends say I remember when a teacher, teacher Jane Doe, you beat the eggs in the freezer, and made the explanation, because the teacher was going up to the combination with his rucksack, in that low a garbilla of boys and reject your rucksack and smashed all the eggs, then my note said "I beat the eggs to the teacher" That was what was causing the public morbidity and it was giving program because Es sold much I wrote another, saying, "Pawn to die in a plane crash" but no plane fell from the scaffold then, when it reached land and was killed, died en route. The autopsy said he was already dead when he fell, then died in a plane crash, people like it. Women's
Bachelor Andrew Medina says: I keep that paper the crash and has years, and I do not remember me.
CRIS. And in addition to it you participated in other newspapers?
FAR. No, I have never changed, Pepe took the suggestion he rest in peace Falconi, journalist who died in a plane crash with Pepe Luis Echeverría died there, Don Pepe,
Chanona Don Primitivo, old journalists. They were already old when I arrived, I said if you want to be famous and have not change prestigious newspaper, or write in the newspapers because instead of being liked, disagree.
And I grabbed the tip and stayed in it, now they say give me a period of FAR FAR Who?, FAR of Es Everyone knows I write in it, even children selling I say the newspaper is, give me a newspaper FAR: then and took root.
CRIS. So you could say it was fortunate that Don Gervasio accept his style and not change it.
FAR. Yes, I accept the style, and sometimes he put something on your part. So far the paper was sold, sold many copies, in the morning at 7 am and had no newspaper. Then they asked, because that type FAR and FAR who is that?
is a bolus, because I still take my head Gervasio 4 years, 4 years but I left there drinking. From 1972 to this date I have not taken, gave me straight to work, journalism, to be responsible for the newspaper, because there are many things for which there is, for example, before I came I reported the theft of a vehicle, if not , come, here is a hanging, once I say I'll see where it is to see to pour the coffee. Are we going, what we watch, the coffee and you bring the data, once I am working.
CRIS: And in radio, your experience ...?
FAR: In radio, I began working in 1972 as in 1973 or 74. First test was done. Coordinating a program of amateur ranchera song Ramón Gonzalo Jiménez, Milton Hernandez Moguel, Arturo Pérez House, sponsored by Auto Mercado El Retiro, and has time and, until the owner died ... then called the program "In Search of a star" I went there, I said you come to sing there.
CRIS: And do you write?
FAR: As I wrote then.
CRIS: But they called for it.
FAR: No.
CRIS: First came to a program.
FAR. Yes, I called for me to go to compete in singing and as Mr. Germain said, "Go child teach you a mariachi, take your pay, you go to 400 pesos, to teach you 7 times the song you'll sing, which are the 7 songs from the series also was very bold 7 times, called the mariachi, here you are going to teach my FAR in his tone because he's going to sing there on the radio. Invite Don Alberto Arredondo, pure invite people from the center of Don Germain and friends came to visit me, I had been taught how could I sing with mariachi.
Don Ramón In this rant with a microphone and I with mine, as we are today, we did as a type of comedy. He said one thing and I answered another, and another, pure joke, and people piled up in the morning asked on Saturday whether he would act FAR, if I was going to act came, then came to see me. He is FAR, the newspaper, it is said, I was still 37 years Chavon. One day I said "why do not you come with a radio bulletin, we'll make room, but do not go to arrange your words, if you're going to say and talk." They wanted a papayazo batons and that he turned the nose, which turned the eye, so ... good, so I started talking on the radio, I began to talk, "as Don Arturo break its neck with a club" and there I began to read the notes on the radio.
CRIS: In a news ...
FAR: On the news there is in itself there. There was a newscast, then created Reporters in Action, and then later I walked Reporters in Action. There he worked as a director, Mr. Solórzano, García del Pino, Milton Moguel Hernández, Ramón Gonzalo Jimenez and all have worked as director of the news. Then I came in,
"and now we have FAR" and as I came to talk and people crowded on the radio to hear the FAR. Still piled say. I tell my friends that in Comitan is a person who is not shipped until I finish talking: it says time not right now, until you finish talking FAR.
CRIS: What season is now?
FAR. In news ORM in the communication network itself. In the EU as nothing more than now refers to the LES, the EU and other two stations are there.
CRIS: How is a day you work, how the alert? Who tells you?
FAR. There are god! I see you, to have this small place that I have right now is that I do especially, I tell them not to bother because I will not answer the phone, when all you want, will the children get out at once so it is me just why? because since the morning I start working, from 4 in the morning I get up I get to pick in Tambach ESAR newspaper that touches me I dealt Pa'que and that money is mine.
CRIS: You are given regular, do you sell them?
FAR. Yes, if I sell it, or I'm giving it a question of mine. Sometimes I give it out best, lIevátelo your newspaper, but take your newspaper, sir, is Es Because suddenly I stop a car that tells me what this teacher, how are you? What the ES? There I am writing, I'm not getting, "I bring it here, pa 'su gasolina" or "Here I bring the pantry and I get better," Don Gervasio said to me: "if you want your people, querela; but not treason, because Tuxtla is strongly felt, is very loving opens the door, her heart, all you people give, but do not go making a bad move because it immediately despise "that has Tuxtla and it is. That I Dr. Romeo also said Castillejos corner, because I had the good fortune to talk to all those people who already died, both of which we explained, I never shied away from the conferences, I never shied away from the boards, why? because I served throughout a career in journalism, all the suggestions, all, instead of saying well, better say yes and everything, I never uncomfortable.
I started working and started writing there on the radio and then as people were doing was comedy. Then and there I was with my newsletter, every day. They have gone the other hand, the directors, I change my newspaper because sometimes I do not like the situation, how they work ... I am very serious about my work, I do not know I'm very, very jealous, but when someone offended by what I will go to get, as I say, I have not offended anyone but I will not, then I went Solorzano Valanci we were at home as he stays in the station where it is, I went to the EU "whenever you come Don FAR, there are open doors" No requirements nothing, I started working and I'm there so far.
I get up at 4 in the morning, you asked me, I get to it, I have 50 newspapers, the deal, I have my deal I get paid weekly, and I are pa 'sell Give me one, give me two, sometimes the gift and ended at 7 or 6:30. At 7 I estarme preparing to enter at 7:30, with my "chronic phase red" so to seek, as I reported in the newspaper, that there was a crash, who stole in that house, there you go raising and little I have of the night, then put it in the morning. At 7:30 to 8 or so, I write a little bit and I move. At 9 am breakfast, hence, that breakfast and I go out to do reporting and other newspapers, and I will report at the red cross and give it another stroll back, and come as one, I am writing for the evening, for radio, and then reads the morning newspaper for the Es So right now I left half and said, "I keep a little place there because I have finished an interview that took him," and not Uncle FAR "I said, and so, so my time is divided. Right back at 10:00, 9:30, here is a joint meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous, I'm here till eleven, after 11 and go, and I leave a coffee shop for coffee, I'll be back with my grandchildren and I fell asleep at 12:00. At 4:00 and we're standing again. Neighbors say: "Have not you sleep great, do not you sleep, that beast that never sleeps, never tires you" and yes, I get tired, but sometimes, when I am doing my column, there comes a sentence, at that time I get up and bang, bang, I write before I forget and leave it half written already, as was the phrase. I said Don Gervasio and say a writer ... "Trevil" I think it was, a German who came here with Don Gervasio, when he died his ashes sprinkled in the Lacandon jungle, he said, "you'll find young man with the machine then you are not going to want to leaving the machine, you'll pull, "and so I'm going through, so I'm going through, say all his life he is writing you hear the machine TAS, tas, tas ... writing what is writing? do not know but this is certainly want one stop writing and can no longer one.
CRIS. Then you will find your notes if you do not speak, let you know.
FAR. No, I go out sometimes, when I come, there is a report that says my grandson, I left it here, there is a dead pa, well the dead and can not run because I say death, but the thief if he can run, I and you give me data, and back, so is my life, this has been my life.
GREY. How do you choose the titles of your notes?
FAR. As I see it. I say nothing but sometimes on the radio, and is very thick, afínelo you, I say good, I have to say but as people like my style, people understand it, he hears of the sort that makes you laugh, because says "I grabbed the man removed coyolazos is that they were fighting, a man, a husband and found the two, wife and mistress, but the mistress brought a nylon bag with candy coyol, she wanted to hit him and grabbed coyolazos, the plastic broke down here and watered the Coyoles "then I see it and I put that data. I have called many times I have said it is Coyol with candy, they sell here Tuxtla, is that we ended industry here because we let coyolera end, nor a stick right now coyol there, so sometimes I say is lacking Coyoles to Tuxtla, there is no plant, had earlier, now you hear it it is interpreted in another way, that it is his business, but I'm talking about pure, traditional as it should be said.
CRIS: Don Fernando, you said little while ago Tuxtla sometimes that does not forgive ... or people who also delivered ...
FAR: If we are very loving.
CRIS: That relationship you have with people, I think that language you use, being so close to people is what they like ...
FAR: Likes people.
CRIS: The relationship with the people in the markets, to which you go, you sell, how is it? How do you deal? What do they say?
FAR: When we are in a meal, for example, go eat, "What are you going to eat Don FAR?", "What are you?" "I have fried zucchini, chorizo \u200b\u200bwith eggs, Milanese and everything eat politicians "not you give me, give me what you eat the mob, Zoques" "ah, well, there are seed ball milled and chipile" "give me chipile ball" and we started to talk, because that also sold here knows me and knows it is Tuxtleca, so I say, "If you were gringa, I did not come because they'll understand what I'm asking, but as we are both zoques, we understand" The friendship I have with people is through newspapers, with the terns, and they love me so much that carry baskets, say, "here comes Uncle FAR, there is, there's his newspaper for everyone ... thank you" There you are reading ... when I get some time I have pa 'eat two or three of them, I invite you to eat, and you go, stock tummy, tummy broth, this soup, and there are other eating chile, piquingui tell, but of that is there in the worship in Mexico and in the Village. We are not here to chilangos, here we are with Tuxtlecos; here said chile, no piquingui, chile is called. It's like there's another lady selling custard, the custard is not very well known, the custard apple is the wild because grows in the forest, then gives the custard as papausa, nothing but the custard did not burst but matures, it eviscerates the fall, so, once I put "a pawn of the building fell as Anonymous Mature Maciel, the head is so Gutted "They like it because it falls custard, which means the people here. A gringo does not understand because in the first place do not know the custard. When I arrive at a market and say "don FAR, would not you want a white sapote?" "On'ta? Not say white sapote, it is custard." Anona are you going to say white sapote ... will hit you why? Because it is not white sapote, and you are trying to change name, and I have always fought because the original ruling, as because things are said: puxinú, sumi, cupapé ... nothing more than all the words are zoques accent on the last syllable, are sharp all: cupapé. Because some say on the radio: Cundápi, no! It Cundapí, Chandoquí are zoques. Here on the mound has a lot zoque, because here was the skirt of the mound where he lived the first Zoques, according to the story. Coit said that 19 or 20 families came zoques to build, to inhabit the slopes of the hill ... between the mound and the hill of the eleven stars or the Mactumatzá.
CRIS: You also have a great promoter of rescue zoques traditions.
FAR. Yes, I think so. I always write about it, talk about it in meetings, in speeches, when I get to speak in public. I tell them I am Indian, I am tuxtleco, Indian Zoque brave race, not be confused with me or with an Italian gringo because now there are people all around here because it is fulfilling what he said Quetzalcoatl, that in time Tall men come and Barbados, with green eyes, and here are some, then so, because those people did not speak anything more so, if not that, with a base, spoke. I say some: "And how do you know so much? because I studied.
You are not study so many years but do not know why.
CRIS: Don Fernando do we could talk some of the festivals FAR, that organized, I think it also involved the Zoques?
FAR: Yes, the festival took FAR anniversaries stopped drinking when I drink, every April 13 when he was my dad gave me rope Gervasio, "Take your son pays, does your party zoque "and well, Don Alberto Redondo, rich people like Humberto Esposito, all my buddies, Sunday, auntie ... everyone would then gave me money for your marimba, your drum ... up and down the drum and the dance came chanbuluncé, the dance came Dona Juanita who was the director, Mrs. panchita, Don Pedro "Nievera" Dona panchita died after Dona Juanita, then the other. They stopped doing all these festivals because they were dying, my family, my mother died, my father died.
I did it more for my mom and put old woman was happy when I saw that did not take me, and he became more happy when I dance and drink without drinking, then, did the festivals zoques in jaranitas, drum, the whistle, came tanguy dancing, dancing, carnival, sometimes parachicos, the marimba on the street and say, here in front, says "gnocchi" and a marimba-air challenge, cheerful. I still do my parties and I come zoques parties zoques, also if I invited a high, a their marriage going. I have to discipline the way of them. I'm there as well, but I'm not that high, maybe because I was invited very confident with me, I want both, for newspaper, radio, and I invite arrived. But the holidays came, I was invited recently to The Fraternity of the Grand Lodge Amazon Chiapas, also invited me to a meal of Orthodox Bishops San Reel, 28 this month, also attended. Invite me, maybe because I do not drink liquor, they will say, "do not drink, we bring them back" If you drink drink not invited because that person has already taken 2, want three, until it is pulled and staining of the basement of the mole priests, then you do not have to go ... there are others who begin to mourn, they are crying and wet with tears tortillas ... That no longer works. Invite me much because I do not drink liquor, but if I go to every party.
CRIS: Have you had any obstacles in their work, what were the events that have faced in engaging in this?
FAR: Well, when writing I had no problems, demands, complaints, well, no. Not because I always fixed me great and I say one thing on the news and another thing to talk about the news man, because man made news story that's why they are saying up there.
But from there, pa 'behind, we can not say anything about him, why? The law of the seventh article of the Constitution makes it clear: it is inviolable freedom of writing and publishing writings on any subject, any authority or law may curtail its own censorship, require bond from authors or entrepreneurs they have no limit respect for privacy, the rights of others and peace. Then, if we have respect for the rights of others and morality can not talk back, after what is news, what is making news. We can not say if it is dear, if stolen and that's how bad the other journalists, so the demand, because a thing is what made news story man; apart is to talk about what was behind it and no, it is clear .
CRIS. What is your opinion of how other people deal with the red notes today?
FAR. Well, some do well, some do something wrong, but that's their style of them. Are not going to change the style of the people because it is first being, then the mode of being, first we, the self, which we were born to be, then our way of being, if possible this flashy, something like that .
CRIS: When covering your notes, it feels horrible to see a dead man?
FAR. No. I came to watch the dead. When a friend of mine at times and neither interrogated. Nothing else know who is who died, "Beto" and as I document, I'm going to wake to hear what they died, if he was killed, if you drank liquor, if you killed the woman, if he hanged himself, and with that I make my argument in that moment that I arrived at the wake and my note pa 'morning: there is now.
Interview with Fernando Alegría Ramírez II
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Written by Administrator
By Cristina Ortega Mandujano
CRIS: Could you talk some about your family?
FAR. My family is made at high and low. I have my 3 children, but a different mother. I've never been married, never married, and those times when I drank too much drink, life was much worse drink drink. I started drinking drink at the age of 14 years and quit drinking at age 35. As I drank 24 years. All that way, my mom took care of him. Now my grandchildren are in another glory and at another stage of life, because life is by stage. I'm seeing right now because at least perofada of people who lived here is gone, and died. We are, we are the ones left after them. Now, our perofada, is already dying, died, and so and so,-so, and we touched. Is already going perofada. Come one now, going to be my grandchildren ... and so, and I like that. How beautiful is life, because no one is. I have my grandchildren, my Berenice, Memo Enrique, Fernando, Luis Alberto, I have sick grandchildren.
CRIS. What about your children, someone dedicated to you?
FAR: Only Henry is here.
CRIS. Did he do?
FAR: He worked as director of the red section of the Herald of Chiapas. And it has worked in news. He also worked as a reporter in red note on channel 5 when I was starting, just as he enters a lot to get fired partying and say, look Dad I ran that good! Because a drunk pa 'I want. That stinks coupled flycatcher and not drink jug, do well, so say I'm really tough, tough!, Just like that, but hard-hearted, noble, read me, if someone is dying I do not let him die see how to save or see happens then, but as I tell the people, help in something because it's sad that we let so many die before we are here watching, call the ambulance ... serum, buy it fast, I say, and often, some people do not pull well but I have been. We will talk about my family, my brothers, we were 10 Augustine, Absence, Roselia, Angelica, Herminia, Julia, Javier, Jesus, Delfino, yo.
CRIS. Just you go into journalism?
FAR. All were. My brother Augustine, tailor and died, my brother No, plasterer already dead Delfino boy died in an accident, was a driver. The women all live, at 4, some are bakers, tailors, others no longer working, and working children. My brother Augustine had ninety-four years, dead. My sister Roselia, he will do his birthday September EL15, will do 90. I, who was the last one, I did 72, May 30 and I pa 73; that seniors do not know if it will get or already passed, the thing is I still chamber. Those are my family, also born here in this place.
CRIS: And your parents when you started in this profession, his supporters?
FAR. No, because they were parents different, not like now. Different, if you want to do that, do it, that is another story yours. I worked as a teacher, 10 or 9. Tené said I care, go for a forjarte ... I went into the world, I started working as a teacher with the boys. I noticed there is a need for a well-prepared teacher in the forest, because the teacher is all there in the communities, the master is a doctor, a judge, it's dad is a priest, everything is, then, be prepared. School year I was there when the calendar began to B, because there were two school calendars. In the southern part of Mexico was applied to the north and B. Now all the calendar is B, because the North is not adhered to A. Because they are not here, are from the north, as they are more civilized ... Casts are my brothers. My sons work in the government some cat as I say, and to be first required to be PRI to the bone and know other things. Yo, I stayed with journalism, I left and I went there, and until now my life has been happy. I do not get into fights, do not get involved in any controversy, when I arrived was the union that business reporters and columnists Chiapas, that I started this company, I like 3 years ... and when I would see changing table, there jaloteo, there no longer, and the treasurer jaloteó when no pay ... I've never been ambitious with the money for my poverty, as Jose Alfredo Jimenez. Because I sing to my poverty and not feel any fear, but how many millionaires want to live my life as I live, quiet with the door open at night, alone, the car breaks down, is about a gang: "What about Uncle FAR going to see something, yes, now settled, "I help put the rim, have, here is for a cane," Thanks Uncle FAR "I already know the move as they are, whether they are from here ... and thus the rub I have with people is through the newspaper, read it ... I say "tomorrow I want to shout me out" "I hit my husband" "But you're going to do, how you gonna put? "That I say the head, it takes your food.
CRIS. You have had the opportunity to meet many people of all kinds.
FAR. Yes, of all kinds.
CRIS. Is there anyone in particular you have impacted, or someone you admire?
FAR. What I admire?
CRIS: That the profession has known for .
FAR: I met Amalia Mendoza. Because I wrote in a note that he had divorced Carmen and Alejandro Molina López, say, and had been before the judge that they would not talk on the street when they met, says Amalia Mendoza on one of his songs: "We will cross without hands, as two who have not known" and sent the newspaper, and read it. When you arrive in Mexico Amalia got me on television because I was there on television, channel 2, "no, you are the artist" and hugged me. That said, artists are not so believed, are all mothers, then we went to dinner we went to every mother Amalia, then I appeared on television and through it.
CRIS: And what was on TV?
FAR: I went to visit Don Raúl Velasco. Right there I wore a hat tascalate and Chamula, with ribbons, I asked the Chamula which means the slats, "said the Chamula:" when your hat with your listonaje, all washed down, it means that you are single, but when you're all here and tied up, it means you're already married "That explanation did to Raul Velasco, but Amalia took me ... I was amazed. These people are abused, they are of good milk, I said. That will be me, I'll bring the people, and I do.
CRIS. That relationship with people, you show that love is it one of the largest experiences that have left this profession?
FAR. No, that would say those who know deep talk about life, the spiritual, I said Felipe Aguirre Franco, who walked with on14 years, the newspaper if he has a mission to save souls and I'm with this Alcoholics Anonymous mission and were in hospitals, in the hospital, and there we became buddies, and then said, "go to the bishop's house, I talk to you" I became friends, gave me many books, catechism, Christ's life, the life of St. Joseph, well, all giving; and once went to a party in Chiapa de Corzo and I talked in therapy, so called, but in the end I asked a few: as a rich suffer? A poor suffer the ravages of water as hot? Yes, I told him if why? Because blood is no different nor is another heart, then said: "Sir, because the beings are of equal value, says the commoner" and I ahhhahhahha applauded, then rose a lady, do not know who was the public spoke with her husband, hugged me and kissed me ... and father, is on one side, pulled out the ring and said, "level of memory because you opened my soul," she said crying. Aguirre told the father if received or not, yes, I said. And then he said, "everything that people give you receive it, because it is Christ who is rewarding you through those people, do not despise" And since then, not contempt miss anything, do not despise anything, but I have impact, such as that embraced me, kissed me, gave me his name, then lifted her engineer, who was her husband and said, "do you forward, speaks fondly of the people" Maybe God gave it to me I have, because he said Felipe Aguirre
Franco: "FAR was not born, born and FAR ..." Jorge de la Vega Dominguez, I walked in campaign and said "now is not the time of the tie, now is the time to take off his jacket and put on blue chaquetín, and go to town to see what people want and how the people feel" I said: is right Jorge de la Vega, it is.
why I'm poor clothes anywhere.
CRIS: What do you think are the characteristics required journalists to get better today?
FAR: Being a decent, tolerant, humble, because if I ask someone what's it called? For example, in one case, a lady, who had wounded his son in the
Concordia, the boy was very ill and no one gave him information, when I arrived and hugged her, "Madame, did you?" He has not eaten anything all night, so instead of questioning, I bought a cake and a rice pudding and I took it, it's mine, I said, "I am giving you eat" "There, blessed be you from God "and began to eat. I sit there all night and asked, "What does, then your child, or is your husband?" "It's my son, so and so, he put a bullet Raquel" Who is Rachel? "
"The other man living near his home" Here I am taking the data, and to take data and all, I say goodbye, "we are good aunt" "Yes sir, God bless him."
I took the data and everything and fought with me, but you have to be developed as one goes to, so things are done well. Another of the greatest things we have to do to interrogate a person is to see your state because if they suffered a great sorrow we can not go ... have to wait to calm down, the note has already been given ... of course I began to say they stole in that house, and is the note, and is circulating, now we going to do but calmly setting, tolerance, humility.
I say so because if we are suddenly making use of arrogance can not do anything, because unfortunately it is not.
CRIS: What stage of life has been the most liked?
FAR: Well, when I was young, nothing more than when I was young, I was not at this stage of experience. I would like to return to the youth but with this experience of AIDS care, care of pertussis, ward off the evil mouth, everything. When we are young we eat everything, about who is worse in the canteen. I was drunk bohemian Gervasio said my dad because he always sang the song of José Alfredo and songs of thin gold, Agustin Lara. When he died, Don Agustín Lara, about this time I got to it, with notes, and says Don Gervasio "hurry up son died because Agustín Lara and that deserves a drink" with him, this time, I got to take 90 days Miss , 3 months, but horrible, that time is what I would like to return but with this experience I have, and not to drink, to get to this age has cost me many experiences. Some say that pain and experience costs money, and others say it costs a lot of experience. Yes, it costs a lot, even to write, I've never been sued, never, thank God. I do not know why, on the contrary, they like it. Once there was an average demand because we write about 'checks scavenging Moguel Milton Hernandez and Ricardo Palacios, rest in peace, and like not charged, there you have believed that they would not charge and then we post the check, by Check the owner asked for a clarification to the authority and I would go, when it comes Ricardo Palacios: "No teacher will need you, I will go, because I found" It was, they did not know, that was we had nothing else, but until now it going, thank God, and go over because my years and I are hitting While this may be from one moment to another game and as Jose Alfredo: me too I'm coming to shore that God told me, because we all come identified, and Miss, what else can be done.
CRIS: Can you say three events which have marked your life?
FAR: The greatest event of my life I had, was the acceptance of people, this is the greatest prize, because sometimes I steal a few phrases to José Alfredo and say, I do my news for the people to me ... If one day the people fail me, that day will mourn, and someone I cried out there, "the people is not going to fail, you will fail the people you"
This event is the one I have bigger, the people, my people. Another event, when, without thinking that I am, I'm in a restaurant in Committee, while the mariachis and all, asking: "Who is it?" It was my birthday. I asked, "who I send it then?" The cook, and I said, "Who will cook?" I keep eating ... when I came to say hello "and you're ..." I said, a fellow Alcoholics group there, you know I do not drink, I had ordered my food, event and music because he, like cooking, she realized that it was taking drink, that was a surprise event that I almost twist. And the greatest is this that the girls gave me this book, this was the greatest thing for me.
CRIS. What is this, what can I say?
FAR: It is a thesis, what you see.
CRIS: When journalism is done for the people. Life story of Fernando
Joy Ramirez: "FAR"
FAR: That's the biggest me. This data book because I was born, how were you asking me, standing here where I was born, and here I see, half chamulón, but here I am, and this one trophy that I got the girls, it's nice.
CRIS: Don Fernando, do not you take some of the notes he gave to the radio, we can read it?
FAR: Only in the newspapers that I have yesterday.
CRIS: Could you read something to burn?
FAR: Here is the red note, the "FAR", "Shock morning and cumbersome "Mañanero because it was at the time the cow is milked in the morning, then says:" Early yesterday more or less around 8:00 in the morning there was a strong and spectacular crash, the accident on the 1st south and 5 tie, in the corner of this popular newspaper, no injuries or material damage, there was no blood to clean, or mourning to keep "means that no one was killed, that's the footnote, and complements other .
CRIS: That was what happened yesterday?
FAR: Yes, I think so was yesterday, the 30, but the 31, here is another ...
CRIS. Are you still very close to the Grajales family?
FAR: Yes, very close, I love them. Now tell me dad, grandpa tell me. I brought a new machine because the one I have and no keys, no nothing ... I already invented new finger for yet and hurts with iron, and has no keys, I get thimble as seamstresses put before to do it. I'm coming back to the nineteenth century, when fashion designers were not as now, if they did their rows and put into a needle and still pushing with your finger but you do not have as called thimble cup gets there , and that pushed him, poor people before, and began work Tuxtla. To reach as it is we have worked hard the old tuxtlecos to leave a Tuxtla you, almost more prepared. Now you do not let it stop fighting for our customs, battles, because fashions come and destroy the customs and it should not be. Jose Alfredo Jimenez in 1963 did not let you in Charleston in Mexico trying to invade the whole world, he said, "Do not go here because I still live in Mexico" and premiered their rancheras and everyone appreciated the songs of Jose Alfredo, Cuco Sanchez, Tomas Mendez Sosa, are the ones I sang to me, the songs that made me because everybody talks about drink.
CRIS: What is your favorite song by Jose Alfredo?
FAR: All of Joseph, "Paloma Querida" was one of his first songs dedicated to his wife Paloma. "From the day you came into my life dear dove, I got to give and to feel a little taken me so angry that he wanted to mourn, I felt superior to everyone and a handful of stars I wanted to download" I grabbed that phrase because after a bolus, bolus was well and shouted, and the patrol stops and get off the police, take it and get away. The next day, it was reported that he was a prisoner, then I wrote: "What happens is that so and so took drink and I felt drunk more than any star and a handful of wanted down, but not under the thumb of a star that fell was a bunch of policemen in the patrol broke his ribs "This has been my life in journalism, tangled with songs and poems and all, and I follow.
CRIS: Finally, what has made this state?
FAR: My Chiapas?
CRIS: What has stopped you, that has given you?
FAR: Well I will leave it to him My people, my baby, why is the greatest thing, my understanding, because we understand the people, because sometimes you have to understand you also say, if not beat by beat, because Chiapas has given me a lot, firstly I was born, and secondly, my parents died here, and here in the state, are buried. My children grew up here, and here are raising grandchildren, here are studying in the State of Chiapas, and as gnocchi says "I shall return to you as the true Lamb of legend to be a note in solitude wander lost from their path, to be one among your networks, woven with the thread of incense and drinking the poem of your nights in your legend your blue marimbas "this is my Chiapas. So now that I'm almost old like gnocchi says:" I am old, lonely and dejected. And approached me to kiss your land forever, Chiapas, because I did with the soul of mountain cross and "I have left much, much love, especially love, like, everywhere, in the municipalities," there is Don FAR "and if I am not hiding so when I go out there stacked," there is Don FAR ", spread the word and are waiting for" Far ", when I leave, says a man" or an artist expect how you come to surround "People are coming out of affection, speak, CONTAL a story and they are there and I laugh and I, I get to leave on buses and if I took my car up in my car, I bring ... well, a Chiapas, which is my birthplace, my people, I love my state, so sometimes I curse when I see you do things, destroy, you come to destroy, to loot, what comes to trampling, which come to do everything and Chiapas, then, where they are. I will die and not know what I will leave my grandchildren, a Chiapas, you can not say free, but sunk into poverty and hunger because it is true, some people do not eat. I would like to interview me one of those who say that ... Let me girl and we'll see where people do not eat ... I know sick people, coming here is the love I was born love and come to understand that if we're together is better than isolation. That is, until then, I can say girl, not more.
CRIS: That is fine Don Fernando, thank you for your time, for all his experience he told us today.
