Huchi Lora’s relationship with the world of entertainment has been "since he had use of reason". Television, songwriting or screenwriting for movies have been some of the jobs that this veteran communicator has developed, known above all for his accurate comments on the country’s socio-political current affairs.
Huchi Lora surprised Tuesday by announcing his retirement from directing the program "The day"in which he precisely celebrated 25 years on Dominican television, through Telesistema, channel 11, where he forged a vertical journalistic style and facing the problems of society.
Among the assignments he had in his first foray as a journalist, in El Nacional, was precisely the entertainment section. It was 1966, and Lora was beginning a career in which he would be very close to national artistic life.
Together with television figures such as Yaqui Núñez del Risco and Freddy Beras Goico, he developed his talent in the production of television programs, or the creation of tenths in which, as he has continued to do, he commented on current affairs by rhyming verses, the latter in “El Show del Mediodía”.
In 1982, together with Núñez del Risco, he produced the space “Again with Yaqui” (of Color Vision, channel 9), on Saturday nights.
In those same years of the 1980s, her relationship with merengue player Johnny Ventura leads him to write several songs, among them “Did you whistle?”, “The neighbor”, The Smell of the Rain”, “What a pity” and “From the hill to the sea”.
His work with the genre of the güira and the tambora goes further, thanks to his relationship with Rafael Chaljub Mejía, historian and connoisseur of the typical merengue, author of the book “Antes de que te voy”, on which Lora and Juan Deláncer produced a documentary “Before they leave us”.
In addition, this defender of the typical merengue was the director and screenwriter of the documentary “Tatico Siempre”, based on the career of the legendary musician Tatico Henríquez, who died in 1976.
Born in Santiago de los Caballeros on May 7, 1947, Luis Eduardo Lora (his real name) is the son of the poet Armando Lora and the teacher Altagracia Iglesias, and, according to local newspaper reports, he had eleven siblings.
He also fathered seven children. After graduating from high school, he moved to Santo Domingo to study journalism at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), where he met Freddy Gatón Arce, then director of the newspaper El Nacional, who offered him his first job in 1966, when he was barely 19. year old.
+ Screenwriter.After the implementation of the Film Law, Huchi Lora has been a screenwriter for several film productions.
Among them “El Lieutenant Amado”, from 2013, and “Oro y Polvo”, from 2015, both directed by Félix Limardo.
Documentary film. The most recent film work in which he has participated is the historical documentary “Santo Domigo”, directed by José E. Pintor “Pinky”, in 2020.
+ TV chapter
The communicator Huchi Lora announced on Tuesday his immediate retirement from the direction of the television program “El Día”, broadcast by the Telesistema 11 channel, after 25 years holding the position. His colleague Edith Febles will assume that role from now on.
The program "The day" aired on Thursday, January 9, 1997, the first edition was produced with an hour-long interview of the then-new Dominican president, Leonel Fernández.
Lora, when speaking with journalists from LISTÍN DIARIO, explained thathis health was the determining factorat the time of making this decision, stating that due to your medical history, combined with your age, you are the best option. “I have several morbidities, which for a 74-year-old man are threatening and I want to continue living,” said the journalist.
However, he assured that he will continue to work, but not with the same regularity and rigor with which he did before.
Likewise, and despite the air of sadness that dominated the last minutes of the aforementioned television space, Huchi said he was satisfied with the work he did on “El Día”, which will continue to be directed by Febles.
“We have worked for society, I have been lucky to work in a place where I have had my hands completely free,” said the veteran communicator.
The program, which also served as a farewell for fellow communicator Carolina Santana,It was full of special guests, who spared no words to highlight Lora’s journey of more than five decades.
Among them was the businessman Jose Luis Corripio “Pepin” who described Lora as “a representative and symbol of the best in communication.”
Manuel Corripio, Vice President of Corripio Communications Group, recognized Huchi Lora’s professional integrity, emphasizing that Lora is the type of journalist who never raises her voice and who chooses to raise her ideas.
Communicator Alicia Ortega, on the other hand, affirmed that the Dominican Republic is indebted to Huchi, for his dedication to the truth and for the legacy he will leave for future journalists and communicators in the country.
That opinion was shared by Marino Zapete, who highlighted Lora as someone who put aside personal interests to focus ethically at the service of his profession and society.
“It is the north of all of us, the north of the ethical, serious, responsible journalist, with determination, will, with a desire to help, is very supportive and the truth is that, whoever wants to be a decent career within this journalistic field, well You should always think of Huchi Lora”, said her colleague Nuria Piera.
During Tuesday’s special broadcast, Huchi Lora recalled talents who were part of the television proposal: Ramón Núñez Ramírez, with whom he started on Telesistema; the sociologist Rafael Acevedo, the deceased priest Avelino Fernández; Wilson Radamés Rodríguez, Patricia Solano; Diulka Perez, Javier Cabreja; Amelia Deschamps, Asize Melgen (informative voice), and Marivell Contreras (in the interviews and news of art and culture).
