Ángel Sánchez Mendoza

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Ángel Sánchez Mendoza (Guayaquil, 1963 – 30 March 2020)[1] was an Ecuadorian journalist, news director of Ecuavisa, TC Televisión and Gamavisión as well as director of communication of Guayas Prefecture and the University of Guayaquil.[2]

Biography[]

Sánchez was born in 1963, and developed an interest in journalism since an early age.[1][3]

He started working for Ecuavisa in the technical area, carrying lights and cables, in 1982,[3] when he was 18 years old, also starting as a camera assistant.[1][4] His first opportunity to do journalism came with Nila Velázquez in Televistazo Dominical , around 1984.[1][3] He subsequently held various intermediate positions such as editor, producer, area manager, manager, among others, until he became the director of news and co-publisher of reports.[1][2][3] He worked alongside Tania Tinoco for about thirty years, with María Teresa Arboleda with whom he had a great friendship, with the journalist Melania Quichimbo whom he married and had a daughter with, and with many of the channel's journalists for decades.[1] Journalists Xavier Alvarado Roca, Fernando Aguayo, Teresa Arboleda, and contributed to his journalistic training.[3]

During the rebellion of the military bases of Manta, Quito and Taura, in 1986, and the kidnapping of President León Febres Cordero, Sánchez, then a production assistant, accompanied reporter María Teresa Arboleda who entered the rebel-held base; mutinous soldiers later opened fire as they were leaving.[3] In 1997 he covered the overthrow of President Abdalá Bucaram; in 2001, while covering the September 11 attacks and the start of the US invasion of Afghanistan, he developed gastritis from overwork, and had to be hospitalized for seventeen days.[3]

On 15 September 2011, he retired from his position as news director, as had been agreed the previous year; the channel's directors, however, required Sánchez's presence again, due to the changes of the new general manager, Mexican sociologist Luis Beltrán, who came from TC Televisión.[3] S��nchez returned to Ecuavisa for some time, managing the news program Ecuavisa Informa, but left for good in 2013.[4][5]

He then worked as news producer for TC Televisión, as well as a communications consultant and later part of the GamaTV team as producer and news director.[1][2][4][5]

After spending 34 years in the media, he became director of communication for the , since the assumption of Carlos Luis Morales, and director of communication for the University of Guayaquil.[1][2][6][5]

Private life[]

He had two children from his first marriage. He married for the second time with Melania Quichimbo, Radio City host and journalist for El Universo, with whom he had a daughter.[4]

Death[]

Sánchez died in the afternoon of 30 March 2020, at the age of 56, in the Guasmo Sur hospital, due to complications of the COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2, during the pandemic in Ecuador.[1][5]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Tania Tinoco: "Ángel Sánchez tenía una gran facilidad para hacer reír"". expreso.ec (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 31 March 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d "Periodista Ángel Sánchez fallece por coronavirus". Metro Ecuador (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 31 March 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "El canal es mi vida y pasión". El Universo (in Spanish). 16 September 2011. Archived from the original on 31 March 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d "Ha muerto Ángel Sánchez, exgerente de Noticias de Ecuavisa". La República EC (in Spanish). 31 March 2020. Archived from the original on 31 March 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  5. ^ a b c d "Fallece el reconocido comunicador social Ángel Sánchez a causa de coronavirus". pichinchacomunicaciones.com.ec (in Spanish). 30 March 2020. Archived from the original on 31 March 2020.
  6. ^ "Periodista Ángel Sánchez, exEcuavisa murió hoy por Covid-19a". La Hora Noticias de Ecuador, sus provincias y el mundo (in Spanish). 30 March 2020. Archived from the original on 31 March 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
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