German Dehesa

Germán Dehesa (Tacubaya, Mexico City, July 1, 1944 – September 2, 2010) was a Mexican journalist, writer and broadcaster, considered an influential opinion leader.

First studies

He attended secondary school at the Instituto México (1951-1959) and high school at the Centro Universitario México (CUM) (1960-1962, when in Mexico baccalaureate studies lasted two years, not three), both institutions of the Marist Brothers of Mexico City. He later studied chemical engineering and Hispanic literature, both at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, an institution where he worked as a professor for more than 25 years.

Angel's Gazette

The "Gaceta del ángel" was his most recognized journalistic column. In it, with colloquial and simple language and full of everyday anecdotes, he expressed his political and critical thought, usually with topics about the situation of society or of sports (his favorite team was the Pumas de la UNAM). On April 16, 2003, he began to include, at the end of his column, a mini-section entitled "How did you sleep?", which exceeded one thousand daily editions (Provincia 2007); His initial objective was a claim to the authorities, unable to clarify the femicides in Ciudad Juárez, asking the question: "How can they sleep peacefully if they haven't done their job?" This section reached number one thousand on March 12, 2007, and in recent years it has become more of a phrase or a corollary, and since 2006 it has almost always been dedicated to Arturo Montiel, then governor of the State of Mexico.

The ESPN Captains

Since the launch of the sports program "Los capitanes de ESPN" At the beginning of 2010 and almost until the moment of his death, he made appearances alongside José Ramón Fernández, Rafael Puente, Héctor Huerta and other sports commentators for ESPN; there he expressed his love for the Pumas de la UNAM jersey. ^{[citation needed ]}

Cancer diagnosis

On August 25, 2010, he announced in his column "Gaceta del Ángel" that he was suffering from terminal cancer, and that according to the doctors who treated him, he would die at the end of 2010. With his proverbial sense of humor, he assured that he would continue writing in the newspaper until his faculties allowed him, and that he did not lose hope of living a few more years.

A few days later, on September 2, 2010, he died of the disease.

Books written

• Notebook of notes [postuma compilation]
• The music of the years
• Goodbye to the traps
• The family (and other demolitions)
• What ways!: tenochcas customs and customs
• How do we manage? Prontuario de lacorruption de México
• The new adventures of El Principito
• It's not enough to be a father.
• Traveler you're going
• Question of love
• Goodbye to traps 2
• The PRIsiders
• You failed heart
• Question of love

Plays

• Tapadeus
• Belem Cabinet
• Borges with music
• You failed heart
• Neruda, there's no doubt
• Zedilleus
• Lost Arks
• The porch of pigeons
• Compact with boots
• Crowned nuns
• Letters to Santa Fox
• When I'm 64
• Permission to live
• Cancionero Mexicano Verde, Blanco y Rojo

On TV

She hosted a program alongside Ricardo Garibay and then, for a couple of years, also a night program on CNI channel 40 called El ángel de la noche, with interviews with cultural figures and the arts of Mexico.

• "The Pillow" (Imevision, 1985)
• "Mechanical Handling" (Imevision, 1985)

In radio

From 1995 to 2004 he participated in the Radio Red station as the main host of the popular program Radio Red-Onda, which lasted two hours a day. The same radio concept was brought to the Radio Monitor station, under the name Radio Muégano, from 2004 to 2007.^{[citation required]}

Other participations

• In the movie Cilantro and parsley participated as an actor, interpreting the role of the psychiatrist.

Acknowledgments

On May 8, 2008, he was awarded the Don Quixote Journalism Prize, which he received from the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I. The jury declared that in his work he made «a brilliant synthesis (...) between the Spanish language and Mexican popular speech, in an imaginative combination of words, which demonstrates the plasticity, richness and vitality of the language of Cervantes». On August 11, 2010, he was also recognized by the then head of government Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón with the Distinguished Citizen award.

Family and private life

He had four children: Ángel, Mariana, Juana Inés and Andrés.^{[citation required]}