Madrid/Victoria Prego, the Spanish journalist who showed the transition to democracy in her country, died early this Wednesday in Madrid at the age of 75. The news was given by the Madrid Press Association (APM), in a statement in which the board of directors expressed that they were “deeply saddened by the irreparable loss. ”
At the time of her death, Prego was assistant director of digital The Independentwhich she was a part of since its establishment, in September 2016, and she was the president of the Board of Directors.
The journalist worked for a good part of her career on Spanish Television (TVE), where she spent several programs. Among them, his magnum opus, the series The transition (1995). .
In Cuba, the documentary was widely distributed between 2007 and 2010, in its infancy at the time independent blogosphere. “We saw it stuck on the screens, we debated it, it influenced the vocabulary we used to explain the change in Cuba,” recalls the director 14 interventionsYoani Sánchez, then a blogger Generation Y. “A beautiful platform in which Prego highlighted a lot for us with his work.”
“We saw it stuck on the screens, we debated it, it influenced the vocabulary we used to explain the change in Cuba. “
The academic Dagoberto Valdes, director of the Center for Sustainability Studies, in those years at the head of the magazine of the same name, agrees with that view. In “late 2007 or early 2008,” recalls the layman, they got a copy of the series and decided to show it, chapter by chapter, in gatherings they held every Tuesday. in the city of Pinar del Río.
In the same way they distribute it through CDs and souvenirs flash. This is how expressions such as “from law to law”, were expressed by Torcuato Fernández Miranda, the “architect” of the dissolution of the Francoist Cortes; Figures such as Fernández Miranda himself, Adolfo Suárez or King Juan Carlos de Borbón, and, above all, the importance of a peaceful transition to democracy, passing through not only dissident groups, but a good part of society.
“It was seen as something that was going to be implemented around the corner,” says Sánchez. For his part, Valdés traveled after the 2013 immigration reform and at the same time as Prego himself on panel of journalists in Madrid. “For her it was very good that her documentary was seen and discussed in Pinar del Río, a region in the interior of Cuba,” said the intellectual. “Of all the things that happened with her documentary, she said this was one of the most valuable things for her.”
