Argentina: Crónica

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00:00:34already over and he
00:00:39those are those are stories from
00:01:00he was here throughout the morning and then when he was a little
00:01:03worse in health, he started working on Sundays for the weekend with our
00:01:07colleague, Carlitos Stroker and Faku Pedrini,
00:01:11our news manager, who was
00:01:14also like a son to Chiche, bids him farewell
00:01:17with a letter and we want
00:01:20to share it with all of you. It says: Man of exclusives, cover man,
00:01:23record man, man of intuition, bearer of the license of intuition,
00:01:27definitive sting of reality of the last 50 years. He was
00:01:30popular, he was massive, he was a meme, he used the lie
00:01:34detector against eternity and he got the
00:01:37last question. He was "Crónica" before
00:01:40Crónica, a postgraduate in social journalism that ends in him, but not with
00:01:44him, because missions transcend myths. They admitted him
00:01:4720 times, they declared him dead 21 times.
00:01:51He created presidents, he overthrew presidents, he performed a live autopsy on an extraterrestrial
00:01:55and five interviews with Miley. To Lolos he left him in silence, to Cristina he
00:01:59asked if she had any (children). Obviously, when she still dressed in black,
00:02:02because yes, because he could, owner of all the faults of that old
00:02:06journalism that still doubts like a child, he was the one who best decoded
00:02:10Argentina with the distance between the widows and the miracle. He asked, questioned, exposed, something
00:02:14that AI or
00:02:17precariousness doesn't do. His mind lasted longer than his
00:02:20body, like the wristwatches of soldiers who
00:02:23continue to live on the wrists of the executed.
00:02:26Wow, what a beautiful letter, uh, from Pedrini. How nice, how nice what
00:02:30he wrote, let's see, we have a little more, I don't think it ended
00:02:33there. Do
00:02:36we bought the rights to you want to continue Meli, so I don't read it all myself, come on, "I want to die on
00:02:39camera," he told me the first time he was hospitalized. There is
00:02:43something between endings and death, and those are the
00:02:45questions. Chiche had everything. He visited
00:02:49more specialists than a social security card could
00:02:52print. He had more hospitalizations than programs in the
00:02:55year, for a urinary infection, for cardiac arrest, for
00:02:58a foot infarction, for an uncontrolled thrombosis that blocked
00:03:02a couple of arteries, for high fever, for
00:03:05precaution, just in case, and because the best
00:03:08times fade away in installments. When they received him the
00:03:12last time, he couldn't speak or stand. "I'm going
00:03:15to escape through the window, I need to come back," he told me the last time
00:03:19they held him, and the camera, the bed, sorry, is never an
00:03:23option for hunters. Chiche
00:03:27loving grandfather, I think that in only breathed when he was chasing
00:03:29the, Tincho, you must know this, in Argentina. What beautiful words from...
00:03:38but that phrase about wanting to die on camera was literal. Let's see a little more because there's a lot of
00:03:42Chiche's history that Facundo knows very well. Chiche fell several
00:03:46times and never collapsed. What mattered most to him was
00:03:49outside himself, and just as danger brings out
00:03:53the worst in the world but the best in
00:03:57with popular news of Messi's retirement. At the closing of the shops
00:04:01on Abellaneda street. In the last 45 days, Chiche's body
00:04:05was a bingo full of doctors playing several cards at
00:04:08once, like terminal widows waiting for the
00:04:11ball machine to stop in time. They
00:04:14made him sign a consent form so that his
00:04:18death would be his fault, and they discharged him. He came back in
00:04:21a wheelchair to cover a World Cup, he shouted voiceless
00:04:25and with his fist in the air for the goals against England and asked to travel to the
00:04:28final. To sign a declaration of responsibility and get on
00:04:32a plane to tell the story. Chiche only walked
00:04:35through his plans, he fantasized about the crutches that time
00:04:39was taking away from him, but he had everything planned and two suitcases packed, summer
00:04:42pajamas, a pair of suspenders, a cocktail of
00:04:45pills for his blood pressure and a fourth star exploding in
00:04:49his heart. The distance between him and death was always measured in ideas and
00:04:53the risk existed for him, for him to
00:04:56pursue it, sorry, Chiche was not just an praise of danger, he was also
00:05:00a generational provocation, the revenge of the elders of the
00:05:04Pig War, he covered all the best
00:05:07that young people lived, from young people, sorry, and lived in the
00:05:10shadow of the sacred, there is no... to throw away the poor, nor the immigrant,
00:05:14nor the refugee, nor the elderly, Francisco
00:05:17said, to discard is to lose
00:05:20your soul and lose a story, what beautiful words,
00:05:24not the day Argentina played the final, he was here
00:05:27recounting, we were with Carlitos Stroker, Chiche who was very
00:05:30weakened, he would fall asleep, he would fall
00:05:34asleep for for for fractions of a second, that happens to old
00:05:38people when they are no longer oxygenating well and they fall asleep, but to me.
00:05:42I want to tell you something that impressed
00:05:46me, that even moved me because it reminded me of my grandparents. I
00:05:50would poke Carlitos like this and Carlitos would touch him, excuse me, he would
00:05:54touch his leg here a little bit, his knee, to wake him up and
00:05:57Chiche would wake up, open his eyes and connect with what was
00:06:01happening, even if he had fallen asleep, maybe he had slept for two minutes, but
00:06:05he knew he was on air, you understand, that is, he had that nonchalance of
00:06:09even letting himself fall asleep while on air,
00:06:11you understand that... something that one would not
00:06:14do at all. His mind was very young, his mind was very
00:06:18young, very vital, very plugged in, very
00:06:21eager. The issue of the body not responding
00:06:24complicates things a lot for people with so much mental vitality.
00:06:28To conclude, Chiche was something
00:06:31that society will continue to ask for, the security that old people
00:06:34provide, remembering from where so that the
00:06:38bomb explodes in our memory, Chiche was a
00:06:41certainty. And the predictability that Argentina
00:06:44lost. What Chiche decided to tell will forever be the place
00:06:48from which he chose to fight and a curfew on media logic,
00:06:52showing that a journalist is not only
00:06:55born, but also dies.
00:06:58Martin, let's read a little of what people
00:07:01are writing to us from home via WhatsApp, go ahead, yes, many
00:07:04messages are arriving from people, well, we lost an unmatched master, may he rest in
00:07:08peace, may he rest in peace,
00:07:11Chiche, I always saw him.
00:08:12who have just left the funeral home, Nancy
00:08:15pasos, among others, was there for
00:08:18about half an hour saying goodbye to
00:08:21Chiche, so we are with this image, there is already a significant police
00:08:25operation on Loyola, because
00:08:28in 5 minutes at most the
00:08:31hearse will be leaving. Another thing I remember is that
00:08:35Chiche would cross your path and out of nowhere he would ask you, "Are you in a relationship,
00:08:38girl? Are you married? Are you dating?" But he wouldn't
00:08:42even say hello. It
00:08:44made me laugh because it was like he went straight to the point, and that's what
00:08:48great people do, they don't ask for permission, they don't ask for permission, great people don't ask for permission, they
00:08:52ask what everyone wants to ask, a bit like Rulo, I
00:08:55remember many of the conversations we sometimes have when we leave here, "Go ahead and ask
00:08:59directly, ask plainly." That's how Chiche was, and he would understand
00:09:03and Javier Miré the same, that many
00:09:06had dared to interview him but in reality they didn't
00:09:09ask him, nobody asked him, he asked. He asked and left him offside and
00:09:13that's why he didn't give him any more interviews and they asked him the next day, they
00:09:16asked Chiche, "Chiche, do you think Javier Miley will give you another interview?"
00:09:20"No, it's impossible that he likes me because he asked him, I think, the price of the
00:09:24minimum pension that Javier didn't know, the president didn't, and
00:09:27and also very plain things in
00:09:31terms of collaborating with others, I mean, he helped without telling that he did
00:09:34it, and I was just remembering, I didn't
00:09:38remember it, but it was at a time when I lost my job and I remember that among
00:09:42so many people I called, I called him, he was constantly
00:09:46attentive to see if something happened so that I could
00:09:49rejoin, reinsert myself and so on, he was super attentive with me
00:09:53and he was always there, attentive to calling me or writing to me or for me to
00:09:57call him and he would answer, yes, little fox let's see, we're with you,
00:10:00what's happening there at the
00:10:02door?
00:10:04Yes, Rulo, because at the door there are many relatives,
00:10:08friends, and also fans of Chiche who come to... to
00:10:12say their last goodbyes, and a lot of traffic is forming because
00:10:17what is Darwin street is cut off to traffic here,
00:10:21too many vehicles are gathering, which is also
00:10:25slowing down the
00:10:27departure of the hearse, but look at that
00:10:31image, family, friends and fans who are
00:10:35waiting for that moment, Rulo, look at
00:10:38all the people who are going to say goodbye to Chiche, the truth is that he worked with everyone,
00:10:42Chiche uh, I think he had nothing
00:10:45left to do in his career as a journalist, he was a war
00:10:49correspondent, he covered the Six-Day War in Israel, he covered the war
00:10:53in Ukraine, uh. He also covered
00:10:57another conflict, I can't remember now, but he wanted to be
00:11:01there on the ground, that's why he was so
00:11:03demanding.
00:11:06Uh
00:11:09yes, let's remember the interview he did with Cristina, uh,
00:11:13now when they have it ready of course, but it's interesting to see
00:11:16also that interview he did with Cristina the questions he
00:11:19asked, Chiche was always very
00:11:23direct when asking.
00:11:31Let's watch the interview with Cristina, go ahead, you shout,
00:11:34no, it depends, you don't shout, you don't insult, bad
00:11:38words, yes, I mean, the truth is that I wouldn't be I'm very foul-
00:11:41mouthed.
00:11:43to people.
00:11:46No, I'm not, I'm yes, I use bad
00:11:48words, my character is a character that has always been a
00:11:52strong, fiery character. Yes, that's a good
00:11:56definition, a fiery character. I'm very foul-
00:11:59mouthed, that's a flaw that Néstor always criticized me for because he didn't use bad words
00:12:02and I am very foul- mouthed, well, you must have realized by now, the thing is that I don't use
00:12:06bad words on camera, only on the phone I use bad words,
00:12:09yes, I'm already calm, you must have already found out by
00:12:12phone, of course I use bad words on the phone, but well,
00:12:16that's fine, let's say, it's human, that, but do you recognize that as a flaw, something that
00:12:20you would like to improve in your personality, you're still in time, you're
00:12:23a young woman, eh, and yes, I've improved it quite a bit, I used to
00:12:27get angrier
00:12:29uh, no, no, I've improved it, but not
00:12:33everything, not everything I would like, sometimes I get the "chiripioca" as I
00:12:37say, and well, but taking into account everything you've
00:12:40done and let's say you reached the highest
00:12:44peaks of power twice, not of power
00:12:47but of government, the government, well, but
00:12:51let's say, the president has the sum of power, no, on the contrary,
00:12:55Chiche, the sum of power is prohibited by the constitution, the
00:12:59sum of
00:12:59power.
00:13:04Let's go live and direct with Jessica who is at the Tablada cemetery. Jessi, are you on
00:13:08air?
00:13:13Jessica, welcome, unbeatable on Crónica, now, now, now,
00:13:17yes, we hear you, go ahead, good afternoon Rulo, that's right, excuse me, we are here in the western
00:13:21area of the province of Buenos Aires, in front of the Israeli cemetery where we are
00:13:25waiting for the arrival of the funeral procession of none
00:13:28other than Chiche Gelblung, the great journalist of the
00:13:31channel, also family members, colleagues, and friends who will be arriving. Little by little, some
00:13:35neighbors are starting to show up here precisely because all the media
00:13:38are working here in front of the cemetery. The entrance of the
00:13:42funeral procession will be on Donovan Street, which from
00:13:46here, at least 800 meters inwards, is the information we
00:13:49have, they will be transferring Chiche's remains.
00:13:53Gelblung, according to. also, minutes before
00:13:57the burial, since it is a
00:14:00religious cemetery, a Jewish
00:14:02cemetery, there is a religious ceremony that is
00:14:06performed moments before lowering the coffin, which is not,
00:14:09before the body is washed, no, the body is washed,
00:14:13sections of the clothes of children and of the
00:14:16widow are cut,
00:14:18clothes are torn because that is the sign that life at some point
00:14:22breaks when a loved one passes away. You know that religious
00:14:26ceremonies do not construct the tombstone at that very
00:14:30moment, but a year must pass to be
00:14:32able to leave one there, the processions are leaving, there it is,
00:14:36we are live and direct, of course, Crónica will accompany
00:14:40Chiche's remains from the wake
00:14:43to the Tablada Cemetery. Little fox, it's all
00:14:46yours. Yes, Rulo, the hearse
00:14:50leaves, people start to give a great
00:14:53applause to the master. Master, colleague, unique
00:14:57friend, Chiche Gelblung, who will be
00:15:00transferred to the Jewish cemetery of
00:15:03Tablada. This is how the
00:15:06wake, which began at 10:30 in the morning,
00:15:09ends, with all the family, with Cristina, Federico,
00:15:12Magdalena and María, his children, and in this way
00:15:16they transfer Chiche Gelblung,
00:15:20a person who has left us much teaching,
00:15:23professionalism, thousands of anecdotes, as each one
00:15:27of us and the viewers remember him, and
00:15:30an impressive silence is being experienced
00:15:33in this place now, respect for Chiche, and again.
00:15:36An applause, there we
00:15:39are seeing
00:15:43Samuel, legend of Argentine
00:15:46journalism.
00:15:49Well, there we are seeing the images, of course, live,
00:15:52Crónica, will accompany
00:15:54Chiche's remains until the last minute,
00:15:58there we are seeing him leave, in
00:16:00that vehicle, which will surely go in
00:16:04an endless caravan, right? has a lot to do with what he
00:16:37left as a legacy for
00:16:41all of us who work in this medium, it was a great
00:16:44school, especially here on this channel, so many people who have spoken today, who
00:16:47have worked very, very closely, right? Yes, what a guy, that, what a hard
00:16:51worker, what an obsession he had for
00:16:55current events, for exposing power, for questioning, for not wanting to kiss anyone's
00:16:59ass, uh, I think he had the
00:17:02conviction of a journalist that few have left, journalists
00:17:06who are not afraid of power, who... don't want to be condescending, who are uncomfortable because
00:17:09they understand that's their function, right, and that he also had that
00:17:13conviction that he could have been friends with those people who
00:17:17later came to power, but once they came to power they stopped being his
00:17:20friends, if you were president you were no longer friends with Chiche
00:17:24because, or at least that wouldn't put him in the obligation to ask you what you
00:17:28wanted to hear, but he would actually ask what he wanted
00:17:32and what people wanted to hear, it didn't condition
00:17:35him, so to speak, no. also very, very
00:17:39impactful theme of that close bond with
00:17:43people not with
00:17:48the territory.
00:17:51Well, a rabbi accompanying the funeral procession, the AMIA
00:17:54car also providing transport to the
00:17:57funeral home, it was one of AMIA's funeral homes there on Loyola Street,
00:18:00exactly, and as I was telling you, the
00:18:04ceremony will also comply with the precepts. The
00:18:08Jewish faith and the moment of the last farewell to a
00:18:11Jewish person is a very moving moment that has many rituals,
00:18:15many steps, and the tombstone, the stone, is not
00:18:19placed at the moment the person dies, but a year
00:18:23must pass to be able to construct the memorial,
00:18:26no, because it is interpreted that a human being also needs to distance
00:18:30themselves from such a special
00:18:33event as when someone leaves for another plane, so only a year
00:18:37later do you return to the cemetery to
00:18:39inaugurate the tombstone that bears the name of the deceased person,
00:18:43surely there will also be loved ones there, I imagine his sister will be there, who
00:18:46was a very close person to him, who had passed away during the pandemic, during the
00:18:50pandemic, exactly, and who truly
00:18:54made him very, very sad, that departure, he loved his
00:18:57sister and he had three children, no, two women, he has three
00:19:01children, several grandchildren, a very
00:19:06the cover. of the phone, as they say, the image
00:19:09there is something that made his eyes sparkle, it was
00:19:13his grandchildren, he had them as his WhatsApp background photo, always
00:19:17calling them, being attentive, the truth is
00:19:19that it's an impressive moment, but also many messages are arriving from people who
00:19:23are saying goodbye here, uh, Chiche, eternal, you will never be forgotten, no one
00:19:27will ever be able to replace you, your legacy will be forever and
00:19:30always. Goodbye to Chiche, another great one who leaves us, may he rest in
00:19:34peace, always in our hearts, total
00:19:38sadness, we lost an eminence of TV, another very
00:19:41funny person left us, who when he watched us in each program, and well, now only the
00:19:45memory remains, I'm Francisco from Candelaria, Misiones, another
00:19:48thing Tincho, Chiche did a lot, almost like there was no difference between outside
00:19:52and inside the air, meaning if he was getting
00:19:56bored with a topic, he would cut you off like a potato
00:19:59on the topic even though he was, he didn't care, he wasn't
00:20:03very he had a unique nonchalance.
00:20:08He had for me, there a viewer who was saying goodbye to him, was talking about someone funny and I
00:20:12was remembering the first party of the Crónica
00:20:16group after the Olmos group after the pandemic, the first
00:20:19party, the first one to go out dancing and he was in the center
00:20:23of the dance floor dancing with his
00:20:25wife Cristina, of course, and all the people, all the others around
00:20:29him, accompanying him in that dance, very funny,
00:20:32yes, yes, uh, well, the last Martín Fierro
00:20:35also, uh, that...
00:20:37The truth is that Chiche had a hard time hearing, he had a
00:20:41hearing aid to hear better, but his voice was very difficult to
00:20:45understand what he was saying, but he put effort into it, that's what
00:20:49I mean, right? He was old and he still put effort into it, that's the truth, you have
00:20:52to have that strength, well, like Mirta, like
00:20:56Mirta, but it's comparable, no,
00:21:00no, a unique guy, I think, this wasn't an
00:21:03easy person, beware, because death seems to soften everyone's
00:21:07personalities, he wasn't an easy guy at all, but yes, I think he had
00:21:10a lot of character, but he was a very beloved person, and very
00:21:13respectful, and with his convictions well placed, I mean,
00:21:16he didn't pretend anything, uh, it's not that he
00:21:20made you believe he was one way and then you found out he wasn't, he didn't pretend anything,
00:21:24he was absolutely transparent in that, at least the
00:21:27times that I have had to, we have had to work with him and
00:21:30so on, you realized that he was very, very, very spontaneous and very
00:21:34transparent. Whenever I went on air, he always told me, "Stop, stop, slow
00:21:37down, calm, calm, calm." I start the
00:21:41mobile, I start, "Stop, stop, stop." Sure, he had
00:21:44everyone impatient, also super
00:21:47impatient, well, a lot of artists. It won't
00:21:51be, it's that, an empty space that will
00:21:54remain. Well, he
00:21:57had a somewhat
00:22:00questionable period with his role during the military dictatorship
00:22:03because there he had to be news manager
00:22:07at the magazine, yes, and well, he was questioned a bit for that, but
00:22:11well, the truth is that he was an eminence in journalism, I
00:22:15believe that all those who studied journalism, in some way, those who
00:22:18loved this profession, in some way sought to
00:22:22imitate some aspects where he left his mark, and he said
00:22:25no, there wasn't one, he would laugh a little when they told him
00:22:28he was the father of yellow journalism and he said there's no yellow journalism,
00:22:32no, journalism is all journalism, everything is journalism, clear,
00:22:36uh, we have Mr. Costi
00:22:39Vigil connected, former director and owner of
00:22:43Editorial Atlántida, welcome to Imbatibles on the
00:22:47Crónica screen.
00:22:49How are you, Rulo? Yes, nice to meet you, how are you,
00:22:52Costi, how are you, Rulo, Melina, I
00:22:56was watching you, I was following you, I
00:22:59just moved away from the TV so it wouldn't echo.
00:23:03Well, it's a sad
00:23:06day eh, but not of pain,
00:23:10yes, of recognition, yes, of
00:23:12memories, yes, anecdotes and
00:23:16stories will start pouring in, a greeting. And
00:23:20my condolences to Chiche's family, from
00:23:24all the Vigil family, from all the family of
00:23:27Aníbal and Constancio Vigil,
00:23:30I'm all ears, I'm following you and
00:23:34I don't know, I have a couple of funny stories, tell us
00:23:37one, tell us one to remember him at this
00:23:41moment of this legend of Argentine
00:23:44journalism.
00:23:46Uh, well, let's start. Because,
00:23:50well, a seasoned journalist,
00:23:53uh, he joined Gente in
00:23:57'66, uh, under the orders of
00:24:00Aníbal and Carlos Fontana Rosa, who founded Gente magazine
00:24:04in '65, and he was its editor between
00:24:07'75 and '81,
00:24:10uh, every great
00:24:13journalist of old,
00:24:16started with print and a...
00:24:20a versatile guy like Chiche, like so many
00:24:23others, when you handle print, it becomes very
00:24:27easy to handle radio and television, radio on Continental
00:24:30Radio, Radio 10, Mitre, Rivadavia and
00:24:34lately on del Plata, television, I remember by heart on Channel 9 and
00:24:37Polémica en el Bar, but well,
00:24:40I have two anecdotes, I don't know how much time I have, go ahead, go ahead,
00:24:43go ahead, tell us, I'll be quick, yes,
00:24:47go ahead. 1969,
00:24:50you weren't alive, I was young, very
00:24:53young, very young, this,
00:24:57I tell this because well, my elders told me and
00:25:01of course I read it later in the magazine, I was born in
00:25:04'63. Well, there's the feat of the
00:25:07Torinos in Nürburgring green, the 84 hours in the
00:25:11green hell, baptized thus by Jacky
00:25:14Stewart, three-time world champion, columnist
00:25:17for El Gráfico and personal friend of Fangio, they were
00:25:20the Torino 380
00:25:23W, three cars, number one, two, and three. Number
00:25:27three was the one that came in fourth
00:25:31place, it was the Argentine mission in Nürburgring, whose
00:25:34team manager was Juan Manuel Fangio, no
00:25:38less, the chief mechanic was Oreste
00:25:41Berta,
00:25:44drivers like Copello, de
00:25:47Palma, Perkins,
00:25:52and a certain Óscar Cacho Fangio
00:25:55who was listed as Fangio's nephew, who in the end
00:25:57is one of Fangio's
00:26:01children. Fangio recognized three
00:26:04children. Now, what happened with Chiche?
00:26:08Chiche was sent by Gente magazine, he was in
00:26:11Europe, he was in Europe, he was sent by
00:26:15Hannibal, and by Fontana Rosa
00:26:18to cover this
00:26:21story for people,
00:26:24uh, this Hannibal was in charge of the
00:26:28magazine, and and so
00:26:31Chiche arrived late, everything was
00:26:37wanted,
00:26:41that era, right? This, this where television
00:26:45was very poor, so Hannibal
00:26:49Vigil wanted to kill him, and
00:26:52he calls him, and he calls my father, Constancio, from El Gráfico
00:26:55and Constancio interceded with
00:26:59Juan Manuel Fangio.
00:27:02And the end, let's say, a little bit of this
00:27:05story is that Chiche
00:27:08on top of the Torino
00:27:12going around with Fangio all over the
00:27:14circuit, Fangio as a driver
00:27:17telling him every part of the
00:27:20circuit, telling him how the
00:27:23whole race went, result,
00:27:27Chiche did a fantastic
00:27:30story, as if he had been there,
00:27:33been there, as if he had been there, present in
00:27:37everything, how great he was, uh, and
00:27:40well, another one that I had to experience myself, you might have
00:27:44mentioned it, you've mentioned it a little in the program, but I experienced it
00:27:48myself, which was the Roswell alien, of course, that
00:27:52was crazy, no, no, no, we saw it here, we passed, uh,
00:27:56the story that aired, also incredibly all of
00:27:59us who are here in the studio remember seeing it live, that's
00:28:03not because there
00:28:07were few channels, not in 95
00:28:1095
00:28:1295 yes, 95, we were
00:28:16owners, the Vigil group was the owner of Telefe, of Channel
00:28:199, uh, this
00:28:23was broadcast in the program Memoria,
00:28:27uh, and I was still in charge of
00:28:30a scientific magazine called Conozca Más,
00:28:34clear, clear, so, so
00:28:39the alien autopsy,
00:28:41it's unbelievable, so
00:28:45so, so clear,
00:28:48we did synergies and we published it in
00:28:51the magazine with a video, a videocassette from that era, it was the
00:28:55era of videocassettes, and Chiche took
00:28:57over the topic. We did synergy, we published
00:29:01it in Memoria, everything was a success, a craze,
00:29:05it bounced everywhere, with specialists
00:29:08who brought to television talking
00:29:12about the topic of extraterrestrial life, of
00:29:15ufology, and,
00:29:18uh, I even think
00:29:21I was getting, if I remember correctly, images of the
00:29:25original video with a
00:29:28supposed autopsy that they did to the
00:29:32doll on the floor of the camera, a doll, incredible,
00:29:36no, the truth is that he has left impressive
00:29:39anecdotes, Scotti, uh, well, Meli, you continue
00:29:42but thank you very much,
00:29:44well, and and no, and and to say
00:29:48that the last time I saw him, which was
00:29:52a great gesture on his part, was in the Recoleta cemetery
00:29:56at my father's burial in August of
00:29:592023, and that with him
00:30:32great, until next time,
00:30:34come on, a big kiss and much love,
00:30:38and well, many greetings again to Chiche's family,
00:30:41goodbye, thank you for your
00:30:43time,
00:30:47thank you,
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