“If the Singer is silent, the common-or-garden might be left alone, the employees will cross themselves, as a result of who must struggle for his or her wages…”
By José Dueñas, cultural journalist, writer and historian.
E mail: enlaradio1040am@gmail.com
After the dying of the journalist Silvio Sierra Sierra, with the deepest admiration and respect, for the colleague and pal, we honor his reminiscence and his legacy, to dignify his skilled life which was a dwelling instance of his ardour for journalism, a dwelling demonstration of its ethics and the tireless seek for the reality in a rustic the place telling the reality is even against the law!
With out forgetting that Silvio Sierra was the voice of those that don’t have any voice, the voice of the helpless, the common-or-garden, the voice of the defenseless. Sure, ‘Cantor’, as immortalized by the very best consultant of Argentine folklore, Horacio Guarany, popularized by the masterful Mercedes Sosa, within the track: “Si se calla el Cantor”.
“…If the Singer is silent, life is silent. As a result of life itself is only a track. Hope, gentle, and pleasure. If the Singer is silent, they’re left alone. The common-or-garden newspaper sparrow. The port employees cross themselves. Who will struggle for his or her wages…?
The Singer is silent and the stroll of the everlasting and tireless ‘Walker’, Silvio Sierra Sierra, additionally ceases! Backed by his individuals expertise, by his nice moral rules and ethical values, his intensive skilled profession, his social journalism, his unwavering braveness in public denial, leaving an incredible mark and an amazing void; and on the similar time passing on a priceless legacy to nationwide journalism!
The good human high quality of the journalist Silvio Sierra Sierra was famous by the Polish writer, journalist and essayist Ryszard Kapuscinski, in his phrase: “To observe good journalism, to start with you must be good human beings! “Unhealthy individuals cannot be good journalists!”
Silvio Sierra Sierra, a lifetime devoted to Journalism
Silvio Sierra Sierra was born within the “Metropolis of Gentle” Salamina, Caldas, birthplace of poets, musicians, writers and actors. When he was very younger, his household moved to the Municipality of Trujillo, Valle del Cauca, on the slopes of the Western mountain vary, the place he lived his childhood and a part of his youth.
We fondly bear in mind his time on the Cristo Sacerdote seminary in Yarumal, Antioquia, which fashioned the spirituality of Silvio Sierra Sierra, which fashioned his the Aristocracy, his transparency and the expertise and wonderful high quality of an individual that characterised him endlessly; along with his intensive data. And on the highest second of his life, journalism stole his coronary heart, exchanging the priesthood for microphones, the pen and letters.
The seminar assured him his new journalistic occupation, to which he would dedicate himself for the remainder of his life, in addition to his urge to learn and the ‘College of Life’, as he used to say, which led him to be a part of crucial media in Valle del Cauca. On the age of 19 he began working in
first liberal newspaper in Valle del Cauca, referred to as El Crisol; Throughout that interval he studied journalism by correspondence, on the Journalism Colleges of Buenos Aires, Argentina, ending with success in three years. He labored at Radio Quito, Ecuador, Radio Nariño in Pasto; He was appointed reporter for El Tiempo in Pasto, on Radio Súper Bogotá, Radio Occidente in Cali, Radio Sucesos RCN, in the course of the interval of instruction of Alberto Acosta Penagos. His intensive expertise led him to the newspaper El País, the place he labored for greater than 40 years.
Due to his dedication and charisma, he managed to turn out to be the voice of essentially the most needy communities in each area the place he labored. And that is how journalism turns into the nice ardour of Silvio Sierra Sierra.
As Silvio Sierra himself says, fortunately married to Ana Sierra, and because of this union his daughter Luisa Sierra – “Lulu”. This Salamin by beginning, however Caucano at coronary heart and by adoption, arrived within the metropolis of Popayán when he was working with the newspaper El País, incomes his retirement pension.
Silvio Sierra, the ‘Warfare Correspondent’
The journalist Silvio Sierra Sierra arrived within the division of Cauca, within the worst interval of the escalation of the armed battle, as he mentioned many occasions: “…I used to be in entrance of the cannon.” Because of the steady guerrilla assaults carried out by the FARC, in an interview with the journalist Carlos Quilindo, Don Silvio Sierra mentioned that conflict was his every day bread. “There have been occasions after we had breakfast with a guerilla character, had lunch with one other guerilla character, and had dinner with one other guerilla character.” His life was in fixed hazard as he lined these subversive assaults. The God he referred to as at all times protected him.
One other of Silvio Sierra’s journalistic banners was his denial of corruption and politics, on this nation the place the corrupt steal greater than $52 billion a 12 months, the ‘thieves’, as he used to name them. The journalist Silvio Sierra at all times saved a prudent distance between himself and the politicians and politicians of the area and the nation, as a result of his banner was the struggle towards Colombia’s second greatest scourge, “corruption.”
Likewise, he denied that ‘regional journalism’ shouldn’t be extremely valued. We can’t overlook the impeccable group for greater than 21 years, of the “Mass of Journalists”, each February 9, within the temple of La Ermita de Jesús de Nazareno, accompanied additionally by veteran journalist Luis Arévalo Cerón. Mass that enables the journalistic union of Popayán and Cauca to be suitable with the doctrines of Christ and the Pope, which reminds us of the values of ethics, sensitivity and transparency in data. In the identical method, Don Silvio Sierra by no means forgot his priestly vocation, on ‘Good Friday’, on the hill of the Three Crosses of Popayán, he carried out the “Sermon of the Seven Phrases”, making us mirror on the phrases of Jesus on the cross, i’ dozens of parishioners attended this annual occasion.
Don Silvio Sierra Sierra, on the age of 81, by no means foresaw the potential for retiring from the noble and passionate occupation of journalism. In an interview along with his colleague Carlos Quilindo, he launched considered one of his laconic phrases: “… You by no means cease being a journalist, Silvio Sierra will die with the letters on.”
The tragic and surprising visitors accident!
On Thursday, Could 2 this 12 months, the well-known journalist Silvio Sierra Sierra suffered a critical visitors accident, when he was run over by a motorcyclist, on Panamericana Norte Avenue, within the Tablazo sector. Based on witnesses, a motorcyclist ran over him, inflicting a critical impression on his head as he fell towards the pavement. The previous journalist was taken by ambulance to the San José de Popayán College Hospital. The primary medical report was that he was within the ‘Intensive Care Unit’, being evaluated and improved, underneath medical indications.
His daughter Luisa Sierra – ‘Lulu’ says: “Though they referred to as the Popayán Municipal Transit Secretariat, on the identical day because the accident, to do their correct work on the scene of the accident, they by no means appeared. What’s extra, the subsequent day the individuals on responsibility on the Transport Secretariat had been referred to as once more, telling them all the things that had occurred, however they paid no consideration both. Likewise, the Transport Secretary by no means went to the clinic. Solely now, after studying that the accident had brought on the lack of lifetime of the essential journalist, did they name the Visitors Secretariat to ask for details about what occurred, the license plate variety of the motorbike in query and, as well as, the investigation to the accident, in order that the municipal company could make the official report back to be transferred to Forensic Medication. “
Colophon: In Popayán the extreme phenomenon of progress and hell of greater than 40,000 bikes is offered, added to the uncontrolled capability of the ‘motorbike employees’, with none management and surveillance of the ‘Visitors Police’.
They trigger accidents on daily basis, the place motorcyclists are on the similar time the principle offenders and the victims, as well as, research point out that they’re the street actor who exceeds the velocity limits most, turning into irresponsible individuals and a excessive public risk.
Caucano and nationwide journalism endure an incredible loss!
On Saturday, Could 11, 2024, within the afternoon, the nice human being, the outstanding journalist Silvio Sierra Sierra, member of the Nationwide School of Journalists of Colombia, died on the age of 81. His efforts and his voice will stay within the reminiscence and hearts of all his listeners. And he died, simply as he predicted in an interview with the journalist Carlos Quilindo: “You by no means cease being a journalist, I’ll die with the letters on.”
The residents of Popayán really feel ache and disappointment over the tragic and delicate dying of the well-known communicator. The union of journalists from Cauca and the south west of the nation regrets his dying and sympathizes along with his daughter Luisa Sierra-‘Lulu’, his brothers, nephews and kin. Our expression of solidarity with your complete household of Radio 1040AM, Radio Purple Sonora from Popayán and Colombia, my needs for help and energy on this tough time. Could God consolation your hearts!
A life devoted to clear and trustworthy journalism, to important journalism and opinion, to its braveness. In him, the seek for reality at all times prevailed, his life was a witness to ethics, that’s the nice legacy he leaves to us journalists from Popayán, Cauca and Colombia.
And like dying is a thief, it at all times surprises and steals our family members. Because the famend French journalist and author, winner of the ‘Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952’, François Mauriac, mentioned: “Loss of life doesn’t take our family members. Quite the opposite, it preserves them for us and immortalizes them in our reminiscence.” He departed from earthly life, to be immortalized in our reminiscence, who was as soon as a ‘Disciple of the Lord’, and left to satisfy his heavenly Father!
Silvio Sierra Sierra’s ethics and fervour will encourage future generations of journalists to comply with the trail, dedication and fervour for the noblest occupation on this planet, simply as Gabo mentioned! And will his legacy final endlessly, as indelible ink within the coronary heart of the guild.
