This 1st of May is not only the commemoration of Labor Day in Ecuador, it will also be the last working day of journalists Alfonso Espinosa de los Monteros. Don Alfonso, as he is fondly called, has decided that this is the date to say goodbye to Ecuadorian television, after 56 years of experience.

See you later at Mr. Alfonso Espinosa de los Monteros, one day after his historic retirement from Ecuadorian television

On social networks, his classmates and colleagues send words of love and admiration, and one of them is Ruth del Salto, who sent a heartfelt message to his former channel partner from television in Qatar. “I can say with certainty that Alfonso was and is the best server of all communications in Ecuador,” he declared from his newspaper studio.

Gratitude and respect to Don Alfonso

Del Salto describes him as an example and inspiration for all communicators. “It was a privilege for me to go hand in hand, with his guidance, with his advice. He is a critical and self-critical guy”He said.

The international channel CNN repeats the retirement of Alfonso Espinosa de los Monteros from Televistaz

“Alfonso transfers knowledge with great responsibility, precisely looking at journalism, and not from the sphere of power, because he confesses and preaches that this is what distances this profession from the true mission of journalists. They say that when someone treats another person with respect, he is only fulfilling that mission, this wonderful man has fully fulfilled that mission. He respects everyone who is his audience.” they concluded in a video they shared on their social networks.

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Del Salto, who currently lives in an Arab country, accompanied his farewell with photos from the communicator in which he remembered other colleagues such as Teresa Arboleda, MarĂ­a Isabel de Lebed and Allan Panchana.

And not only that, the journalist also dedicated her traditional virtual column to the legendary host. “The word has a lot of arithmetic: Splits, when used as a wounding knife. Deprivation, when used lightly to censor. Sum, when used for dialogue. It multiplies when it is generously given to serve and communicate,” reads the legend entitled “Alphonso the Mathematician.”

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