The journalist Enrique José Villegas Arias died in Las Tunas

El City, as his colleagues said, was 70 years old on July 7 and died after suffering several months of illnesses that damaged his health and caused him heart failure.

The Nueva Funeral Home in the capital of Las Tunas, and its coffin is covered by the Cuban flag, which pays tribute to the fighters of the Revolution. The funeral will be held at 9 am Monday.

Enrique José Villegas began his professional life from the student scene when he worked with Antonio Moltó Martorell on the Tele Rebelde channel of Santiago de Cuba in 1968.

He ended his career as a journalist in 1973 and joined the agency Prensa Latina, in his headquarters in Havana, to fulfill the social service. He worked in the capital for several years before moving to Las Tunas

. At Victoria Radio Station, he helped train more than a generation of journalists and received dissimilar rewards for his outstanding work as a radio operator.

His colleagues Miguel Díaz Nápoles and Yenima Díaz Velázquez wrote about him

Characters of my guild: El Perro

Miguel Díaz Nápoles

I do not know why Enrique José Villegas is called El Perro. I do not know, nor do I want to ask him to settle my doubt. I prefer to keep my idea vague about this, because in the end, the City, as we say some friends and colleagues is one of the best people I've known in my years for this troubled world.

I remember when I was working in the newspaper 26, at Calle Colón 157, just at the location of the provincial radio station Radio Victoria, which at that time (80s of the last century) was in Francisco Varona street, in front of the emblematic Plaza Martiana.

Newspaper we had a dining room where succulent snacks were sold, and El Perro and his colleagues, who did not have the opportunity in their station, every day came to 26 to satiate their desires , and then he, fat, gluttonous and paradigmatic, stopped at the cafeteria door and said, "we came to plenty!", and swallowed all that was there, which was not little, including a dozen balls of chocolate ice cream.

This is the first memory I have of El Perr or, of course, with the certainty that he was one of the best journalists of Radio Victoria, still with the criterion of trigger, badyze any problem that has affected the city, practice that is rigorously held until today. , as editor, among many other tasks, complaints from the people.

When I arrived as a novice on the radio, in the early years of the 90s, I approached him and Oscarito Herrera to vent my doubts, give them my texts so that they can be correct them and ask them constantly advice in order to enter the continent in the fascinating and difficult world of this mbad media, which catches you once you get there.

Villegas and I have always been friends, even though we constantly discuss work problems, even though I've blocked his Twitter profile so that he does not know anything about him in this social network (" because he protects me with the bosses "), even though I disagree with some of my statements, which he regards as absolute because" I believe the owner of the truth. "And when the discussion There is no solution, it strikes me in the face: "You won, I do not argue with girls."

In professional matters, El Perro is one of the best journalists met in my fight for this profession Obsessive with a specific subject, always attentive to what is wrong and affects society, incisive in the management of juxtapositions, exquisite in research and localization of information of medium and high intensity to capture the attention of the listener, opinion leader in the social network Twitter, master in this is a newscast (he was the creator of Impact, "like a shot"), it is one of the essential in any radio writing as it relates to it five, both professionally Therefore, his colleagues were all in abeyance when a few years ago he had cardiac surgery in Havana, and we were all happy the day of his triumphant return because his work pace did not make him happy. has not changed at all. and in his way of being, and in truth his treatment for life bothers him when he sees something to eat that he can not take by prescription, and between pitiful and funny smells and says: "how delicious", and away to all hurry to be so difficult, at any time and on any day (including Sundays) The dog calls the bosses over the phone to his house because something is wrong with the writing. And then the clamor is spread among the managers: "And Villegas does not plan to retire?"

But, basically, they and we all know that the day will be a very difficult void to fill in the newsroom, because journalists like El Perro are not around the corner, because their experience, their knowledge, their continuous desires that everything is fine, their desire for improvement and especially their altruism and their anxiety

Pbadions in the soul of an archaeologist of Las Tunas

By: Yenima Díaz Velázquez

The desire to discover what is not seen in the eyes of others and a family history motivated the journalist of the provincial radio station Radio Victoria, Las Tunas, Enrique José Villegas Arias for inserting himself into the world of archeology, a hobby that he has combined with journalism, his two great pbadions.

September 17, the Day of the Cuban Archaeologist, by the Constitution, in 1937, the National Commission of Archeology, later the National Council of Archeology and Ethnology, and c & Is a reason to delight us with the anecdotes and teachings that Villegas conveys in each of his words. [19659002"Jel'aimedepuismonenfanceJ'aigrandidanslamaisondemesarrière-great-parentsàPuertoPadreetc'étaitunemaisonpleined'histoiresurlesCubainsJemesouviensquemapremièrerencontreaveccettequestiond'ethnologieétaientdesesclavesd'esclavesquiappartenaientauxpropriétésdemafamilleàl'époquedelacolonie

This m & # 39; has always motivated. And then, when the streets were made, in front of my house, they started to find many war cartridges, chains, machetes and other objects.That's why I was motivated for archeology.He also influenced that in my city was the Fort of La Loma, which motivated the imagination of this little boy, with a history of mambises in the family. "

Several places in Las Tunas are witnesses to the pbadage of this man no archaeological evidence was found, so he went from here to there while doing a rescue of the obje ts that were superficially or that some neighbors of these sites already possessed.

"Maniabón was a school for us in the sense that we found an aboriginal village, as the colonizers have described.When they cut the cane you stop at this place and see it clearly. I also walked up to La Pedrera, Cascarero, Santa Maria, San Manuel, Cerro de Caisimu, Yarigua, Majibacoa and Cayo Puerco, where we found an aboriginal burial with all the funerary ritual. of Jobabo, especially the Laguna de Virama. "

In the process of finding an archaeologist, many experiences are experienced in the discovery and signaling of evidence.

"In Los Caneyes, in the Zabalo area, we find an Aboriginal landowner, a beautiful archaeological piece, which is a black stone cone, used by aboriginals in majar, that is to say, crushing the kernels on a stony surface.It was also impressive the visit we made to the so-called Callecita de los Indios, possible place of a so-called palafítico town, that existed there.C & # 39; is a rectangle of sand two to three meters wide and six meters long, which is introduced into the marsh part.However, cyclones have changed the topography of the terrain because the locals badure that during cyclone Flora there were still the trunks on which the houses of these aborigines were built. "

With the pbadion that springs from his soul He says that" in the search for evidence, we lose a little the dimension of time and space.After I was looking for vestiges Archaeological and I did not notice and walked on a small wetland that I thought was a small puddle of water and was a scrapie. When I tried to take my foot off, I climbed to my waist and continued to sink. Fortunately, I was accompanied by a Guardafronteras fighter and he was able to rescue me with a rope that he made with his belt and his rifle rope. "

Fervent archeology lover, he tells us of other experiences

" In the Zabalo area are the ruins of the so-called Fuerte de la Zanja, an old Spanish barracks to prevent reinforcements to reach the area for the Mambises fighting against Spain. Excavation, in the part that has not yet covered the sea, I found gold coins. I've also found a wonderful idol, a jewel of the archeology of Las Tunas, today I think it's gone after handing them over to the Municipal Museum of Jobabo. It was a bird that had flown and that seemed to be perched on a branch, wings raised and neck slightly bent. It was made with the nucleus of a gigana strombus or snail cohol, as is known. "

Because he knows the subject deeply, he feels sad the future of archeology in the territory." Comrades who started this task in Las Tunas, there are no institutions that badume what we have already done and that we have paid for ourselves.I suggest that young people be induced in this discipline but, considering that this activity is done with qualified personnel not to destroy many or few of these archaeological sites in the province. "

On the day of the Cuban archaeologist, I remember that Villegas Arias knew how to combine journalism with archeology and that is worthy of the recognition of Las Tunas to be one of the main donors of Indigenous evidence and the colony to the Vicente García González Provincial Museum.