“Argentina is in ruins”, Martín Caparrós’s indignation at the messages received after the death of Jorge Dorio

Martin Caparrosjournalist and writer, this Wednesday lamented the death of his friend Jorge Dorio and wrote a message of indignation at the responses received on the networks when he remembered his beloved adventure companion. “Argentina is in ruins”he wrote.

The first of the messages published by Caparrós, now resident in Spain, arrived full of emotion and memories: “I just learned that Jorge Dorio, a dear friend of mine, has died. We hadn’t seen each other for 25 years, but those spent together were These were the most intense moments of my professional life, I learned a lot from him and I loved him very, very much.

And it was precisely in that publication that unwanted replies arrived. Most of them criticize the recently deceased writer and journalist for participating and leading the 678 programemblem of Kirchnerism.

“Argentina is in ruins. This tweet received several replies from people celebrating Dorio’s death because he worked on this or that side. Are we really like this?“Caparrós wrote hurt reading the reactions his first message had.

Many of the aggressive replies to the tweet also accused Caparrós of some kind of lie for talking about a “best friend”, but not seeing his old partner for 25 years.

The truth is that Caparrós and Dorio They were part of two programs that remained in the minds of many fans. The first was Belgrano’s Night’s Dream, on the radio, at the return of democracy. Later, they were together in El monitor argentino.

Dorio died in the early hours of this Wednesday, aged 65, after suffering a cardiac arrest. He was admitted to the Trenque Lauquen hospital, suffering from a heart attack after holding a conference in Salliqueló, in the interior of the province of Buenos Aires. There he had two stents performed and was awaiting transfer when he died.

Originally from Barracas, Dorio has hosted radio and television programs since the early 1980s. On TV he was part of cycles such as Badía y Compañía, Gran Hermano and 678, in addition to the aforementioned El Monitor Argentino, while on the radio he also participated for many years in Vengeance Will be Terrible, alongside Alejandro Dolina.

His tenure on 678, broadcast on public TV from 2009 to December 2015, was two years, having been host from 2013 until the end of its broadcast.

“Driving the 678 took me away from work…Although I really, really enjoyed that experience. I think I did a good job, I’m happy with what I did in that period. I know that my participation annoyed and displeased many people and since then they have no longer paid attention to me”, he acknowledged in an interview with Clarín.

In any case, he admitted that “678 would do it again and again” and said that “it’s more honest” to say your ideology and express your opinion from there, “than to dress according to what suits you best.”