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07/30/2021 10:53
Clarín.com
Fame
Updated 07/30/2021 10:53
Ensuring that he maintains full optimism to face every aspect of life,
Nelson Castro
spoke with
Clarín
not only about the important role he occupies in TN and
Radio Rivadavia, but also about his private life, the children he did not have, the scars, the humor and the music.
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If you Google "Nelson Castro" and leave a space, the first thing that appears is "Age".
You are 66 years old, in ten years where do you see yourself?
-I appreciate that I feel young.
Working.
If I am healthy, I would love to continue working, and I have many projects.
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In journalism, not as a doctor?
-Yes, within journalism.
With medicine I am up to date, but medical practice has passed.
Nelson Castro conducts "Chronicle of an Announced Afternoon", from Monday to Friday from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
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Has it ever happened to you to think about practicing again when you are so overexposed or exposed in journalism?
-Not because my attitude would be the same.
I do things with real passion and I thank God and life for it.
If I were working as a doctor, I would do what I do now as a journalist, the same level of activity.
I abandoned medicine because the public figure ended up contaminating it.
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And where do you see Argentina in ten years?
-I don't know, it's a nice question that I ask myself every day.
If you do not change this course, I do not see it better, to say something generous and elegant.
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It is also searched on Google if you have a partner.
Why do you think this is so?
-It's a good question and I can't answer it (laughs).
I'll google it.
I am happy that people have a good and positive view of me.
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Are you in a relationship?
-I am not single.
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Many times you told the anecdote that during the time of the Carlos Saúl Menem government, they tried to discredit you by saying that you were homosexual - as if that could discredit someone - and that you had to go out to clarify it even if being homosexual has nothing wrong.
-If it were, I would have no problem saying it or why hide it.
I was very funny about that.
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Didn't you cross paths with that person who "threatened" you that he was going to say you were gay?
-No, but I was very funny.
He wanted to do it as an offense and not at that moment did he generate any problem for me.
One of my capitals is being able to be transparent.
I am in public life as I am in private life.
Nelson Castro in "Chronicle of an Announced Afternoon".
Photo: Radio Rivadavia.
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Many times you told what happened to you when you were a child and the story of your scars.
In 2015 you said that you were never afraid of death, but now, years later, going through a pandemic and having survived the coronavirus, were you afraid of it?
"No, and I wouldn't be ashamed to say so if I did."
Not being afraid is not a sign of courage, and I respect very much those who are afraid, because it is not an element of handicap.
It would have been scared, it would have been seen, because it is difficult to hide.
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Is there something you are afraid of?
-No death, but I am afraid of suffering.
Who likes to suffer?
I always ask God that I hope I do not have suffering or pain in the rest of my life, ugly things to live, and something close to me for my work as a doctor.
After that, the phrase is "I fear God and nothing else."
I feel very calm, which is not to say that I do not have difficulties, but I always face it with a positive attitude, and I thank life for it.
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Was that optimism driven by what you had to live as a child?
Gangrenous erysipelas when you are fifteen days old.
-Surely there must be something related to that, you can dial.
It was something that never weighed on me, and I thank my family environment because there was never an overprotection not to be exposed to the normal things of a boy.
I faced life with total normality and I was touched by environments that did not make scars a subject of bullying, they were never made fun of, and I thank life too, not even at some point when I was denied a television contract, something which was then surpassed, obviously.
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And in your life was there any emotional or non-physical scar?
-Not fortunately.
I mean it sincerely.
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What else can you say about your family?
-That I get along very well.
I have only one brother, two nephews, I am a person with a very normal and emotionally stable life, that helped me a lot in my family life, work, in relationships with people.
It is very toxic to live angry, I always tell everyone.
If people realized that, how much they lose, how much they get sick from living in anger, surely they could do something to make their life better in the midst of troubles.
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What things make you angry and what do you do to avoid them?
-I am outraged by injustice, cruelty, abuse of power, contempt and corruption.
Inequality moves me, people who don't have enough to eat breaks my soul.
But they don't make me angry, they are outrageous things, and as far as I can, I try to do something conducive to fix it.
Nelson Castro: "I am outraged by injustice."
Photo: Radio Rivadavia.
- You
once said that you dreamed of having a large family, five children.
-I would have loved it, yes, but it didn't happen.
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Did you close the door to having children?
-Yes, I am single and there was no possibility of marrying me.
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But I'm not asking about marriage, but about paternity, because there are many ways.
- No, but I am a very formal person in that sense.
Surely if today I were 25, of course I would seek to have them, there is another conception, the issue of the single-parent family and others, but I am not 25 years old (laughs).
I have nephews and I love them like my children, we are very close.
I would have liked to have a large family, I have a lot of family feeling, it is an important element.
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"Nelson Castro today" is also searched on Google, something striking.
How do you face each day?
-I face it as I have faced all my life, with a positive attitude towards the circumstances.
With full energy, I feel like this and with a great desire to do things.
I am restless every day to learn.
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Things you haven't done until now or improve on things you already know?
-I try to find new things, I would like to learn more languages, have more time to study piano and conducting.
It generates expectation in addition to work.
My today is a today of fullness as it was all my life.
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In those condiments that you add to your life, like the piano, what else is there?
-I love music, I would like to study more, composition and direction.
If I had more time I would also love to tackle more book projects, which gives an idea of how busy my life is with things of my realization, which gives me full energy.
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In music, besides the orchestral, what other genres did you immerse yourself in, as a listener or playing?
Is there something that can generate surprise when you say you hear it?
-I love good popular music.
Of course the Beatles, Queen are phenomenal, I love jazz and tango.
Good music is all music.
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And national?
-Charly García, Aznar, Baglietto.
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Did you have a chat with a musical reference outside the media?
-With Baglietto sometime, he is a charming person, with great talent.
With Jairo on the sidelines of the notes.
Not long because the life of the journalist is a life that takes you a long time to not have great times.
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And have you hit on any of them?
-No, I'm not in that category.
Of course, when there is a professional approach, you know how the artist is when the performance ends.
It is preferable to leave them alone, although sometimes they find out and I go and greet them, but sometimes not so as not to disturb.
Have you ever said to me "Nelson, why didn't you come to say hello?"
Nelsón Castro, pure concentration on the piano, in his participation in the Mirtha Legrand cycle.
Archive.
Photo: Capture TV.
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Do you dream of your own concert?
-It is difficult to do, sometimes they ask me how it was in Juanita's program, but when I do I take it seriously, with time to prepare.
I like to do things well, you have to rehearse.
It is a self-demand for me, for my own show I should rehearse eight hours a day, the ones I have given I did with an audience, but you have to study, rehearse and prepare a repertoire.
You have to locate yourself mentally, a lot of things.
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What is your favorite piece to listen or play?
-I would love to play Sergei Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra.
I like to play Schumann and Chopin a lot.
To listen, Tchaikovsky, Gershwin and Verdi.
Politics, humor and radio, according to Nelson Castro
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What's different about doing radio in an election year?
In
Chronicle of an announced afternoon
you are accompanied by journalists Ignacio Ortelli, Cecilia Boufflet, Amelia Troisi, Nancy Gelabert and the humor of Ariel Tarico.
- The agenda is very taken and fundamentally I would say that from the closing of lists, the presence of the electoral thing is predominant.
In Argentina, the pandemic is also added, its management, vaccination, will be an element of electoral dispute, a theme that had never occurred until now.
It is the novelty of this year.
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The pandemic began last year, has there already been a political "thread" like the one that will be seen this year?
-Nothing changed, I would say that there were two periods, the first was until Alberto Fernández broke up with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, after the police rebellion in the province of Buenos Aires.
Until that moment, the political thread and others were in the background under this phenomenon of union, those times we saw the president, Rodríguez Larreta and Axel Kicillof together.
With that rupture and the pressure of hard Kirchnerism, the political thread began with everything and the political use of the pandemic was put on a first level, and together with the quarantine, they entered the crack.
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Is there a permanent thread in all areas of Argentina?
Politics, soccer and other spaces.
-Football is not by chance that it has it, it has a phenomenal political imprint and is fed back with politics, with leaders who leave football and go to politics, and vice versa.
Undoubtedly, the thread is very present in all areas in which there are public power disputes in Argentina.
There are in all institutions, but today it is closely linked to political power.
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Why?
-The occupation of spaces by politics is a very complex issue, politics seeks to cover everything, football, entertainment, whatever.
And this is the product of a construction that Kirchnerism introduced, wanting to produce a "cultural revolution."
This generates the desire to capture all the elements, everything is covered by a political dispute at the level of the public powers of the State.
It is very bad, it is destructive.
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Given this scenario, do you like that there is more thread to be able to analyze it as a journalist or does it annoy you as a citizen?
-No, the thread is very repetitive, boring and conducive.
They are all bids for spaces of personal power, which occur in other parts of the world, but here it also brings deterioration.
"So and so comes along who had such a plan or better", but it has a destructive effect.
In other countries, the one who arrives, does things.
Large countries or nearby ones like Uruguay, where there is also a thread, but there are codes of political construction and directions to follow, they are foreseeable and have a future.
In Argentina there is no determined plan, there is no agreed-upon country project, it is an involutive country, and there is also a thread with significant corruption content, everything that touches the thread is destroyed.
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On the radio you are accompanied by Ariel Tarico, an imitator who among so many characters has played Nelson K. Is it a consolidated duo?
Do you feel comfortable as his partner?
-Absolutely.
It's his creation and it's great, built together because I loved it.
It started in Miter and then it went to TN, I am very happy with that representation.
In addition, Tarico does real humor, with phenomenal editorial content.
Nelson K is a creation that exposes and exhibits those obscenities of the thread that we are talking about, it is a phenomenal complement.
And imitating me puts me on a parity with everyone, being the subject of imitations, not just others.
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Who else?
-The politicians and others.
Imitation has a sarcastic component, and the essence of Nelson K is that I too be the subject of that sarcasm, it is an element of equalization.
I would feel bad if I imitated the others and I was exempt.
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Do you have to have humor to survive Argentine politics?
-Yes, a lot.
And humor is good for editorializing.
Ariel has phenomenal journalism training and information skills, and of course, extraordinary talent.
Not only the voice emerges, but the composition of the character.
He does it so well and many times there are listeners who do not know if he or the original is speaking.
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With regard to humor, recently you were a trend because you were tempted at Juana Viale's table by the famous anecdote of Ulises Bueno.
-The tattoo on the penis ...
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Sure.
How do you get along with being a trend?
-I accept it but it is not my obsession, I pay enough attention to know what social networks are, where today you can be for a good thing and tomorrow you can be for a bad thing.
It is not part of my occupation, the networks are a great technological thing, unfortunately misused, an element of democratization of phenomenal communication, but unfortunately they are used to generate useless and sterile antinomies and confrontations.
The level of construction that exists in social networks is very little.
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What other kinds of things make you laugh in private or out of the air?
-I have a very good mood, I don't do a comedy show, but it makes me laugh a lot when people are surprised that I laugh.
They confuse seriousness with solemnity, I laugh at many things that are really funny to me, and at things in politics I laugh all the time, when you see things that have to do with the politician's dispute, and everyday life makes me laugh the spontaneity of the people, the sparkling and talented people, who make jokes about everything.
I really like to see people who have the ability to smile.
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And in the media and the show there is something or someone that makes you laugh in particular?
-I couldn't say anybody in specific, but when things like Juana Viale's table appear ... it's something unexpected.
Good humor is part of my being, I am in a good mood every day and I thank life for it.
I thank life for humor because it makes me feel good and young, so I have it permanently.
The truth about traveling with TN
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Going to TV and
The
TN
Correspondent
.
They have sent you a lot of travel in the last time and in the networks they say "Nelson is sent to all complicated places, Chernobyl, Ecuador in 2019 ..."
-Thanks me very much (laughs).
I thank the channel for being able to make
The Correspondent
, a proposal that was adopted together, I wanted to do it and unfortunately it could not be continued due to the pandemic.
Those places did not represent any effort for me to go, and I was amused by that thing that was generated, because for people it was something unusual, but for me it was a return to the source of journalism.
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You were in the attack on the Twin Towers, for example.
-Of course.
The correspondent was
born as a consequence of those experiences.
I did the coverage of the Twin Towers, Haiti, the Pope's first trip to Rio de Janeiro, and then there was one thing that everything had a very good impact on, and in 2019 when
Bella's
cycle
was completed, the circumstances arose and Occurred.
The international agenda had a number of incredible cases, we made 20 trips: Chernobyl, the Notre-Dame fire, the Vatican pedophilia congress, the interview with the Pope for my book, the 50 years since the arrival of man to the moon, the revolution in Puerto Rico, the hurricane in the Bahamas.
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And for all that the "send Nelson to all the places where there are quilombo" came out.
-Totally, Ecuador, Bolivia, but I loved doing it.
I was very funny and I loved the impact it had, I really enjoyed it and it was a unique experience.
Those twenty trips will remain a cult experience.
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Thinking of a world without pandemic, what is the next trip and what would you like to cover?
-I don't know because obviously we will have a new world that will depend on the things that appear.
There is the context of Argentina and I am with the work that has led me to have this role in the channel.
The reality is very dynamic.
It happened and it is difficult for it to repeat itself, because it was a conjunction.
It seemed that events were waiting for me.
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And a vacation or pleasure trip?
-My vacations are always in Bariloche.
I have traveled to different parts of the world on vacation, but for now 15 years that my vacation has been in Bariloche.
Life allowed me to know a lot, and I still have a lot to know, and I hope I have the possibility of going to Europe more, because of its cultural attraction, but Bariloche is my place in the world to vacation, I rest deeply, it recharges me with energy and I do physical activity.
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