Jorge Villegas, a teacher of teachers

Monterrey, Mexico .- A law graduate and journalist, right, Jorge Ignacio Villegas Nuñez in fifty years has achieved what few: to keep intact his reputation as a journalist.

Distant days when hand book could cover the Monterrey of the fifties and the first steps in the newspaper El Porvenir, Villegas has been a chronicler of life through his column published our stuff every day, even when is on vacation or has stepped into a hospital.

Diligent observer and critic of politics and its actors in the column to the letter, the journalist writes a daily basis and earning the respect of readers who write or who says this or that error.

It is required daily reading of the columns.

And great is the army of journalists and media professionals who owe the council, the support to achieve gainful employment, scholarship, study tour, the computer would never alone, the book of choice, the magazine this or that article, the English course ... the shoulder to mourn the thankless profession.

He has been able to handle the influence diligently to rebound in the budding professional, the young man with dreams of publishing and managing a student with a hunger to know the world.

The chronicle of many journalists in the account of his early appreciation will have to include a greater or lesser extent, the advice and support of Jorge Villegas.

BOOKS, BOOKS AND MORE BOOKS

The writer, owes its beginnings to the job opportunity Jorge Villegas gave me.

In March 1980, at age 16, started as a waiter at his home in Hacienda El Rosario. I washed windows, painted pots, cleaned acrylic unattainable, ran errands, watering the garden ... until I got to clean the library.

And there I pond. Payday came and told him that I pay only half. That most of the time I spent looking at books. To my surprise had a huge cardboard box with over 100 books that do not know how he knew that interested me.

It was his first gift: a huge and generous supply of books which I devoured. Then followed other interesting boxes of books until circumstances and mistakes of youth I walked away from him and started my journalistic career independently.

Recently, upon learning of the loss of the books that was accumulated over 25 years, 320 books provided me with rich body of literature.

Education pioneer

Jorge Villegas was the creator of the first Faculty of Communication Sciences at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, where he was director of the school for six years, long enough to see the first graduates among them as important communicators and Ulrich Gilberto Marcos Sanders, among others .

Then was called to the editorship of the newspaper El Diario de Monterrey where he devoted himself to journalism to 100 percent.

Under the direction of the newspaper came many brilliant journalists who have been editors, senior executives and state government officials.

The archive shows the managerial work of Jorge Villegas and his thousands of columns written over the years, in a discipline that few journalists can boast.

On 6 September he paid homage attended by friends, politicians and journalists and was commemorated 50 years of journalistic work.

Subsequently, the Society of History, Geography and Statistics gave him a tribute on 15 December.

Also in December presented his book Villegas graduated from centuries Monterrey where he was the Governor Natividad Gonzalez Paras, which incidentally has received periodista.El serious questions of the book was presented by Jorge Pedroza, a prominent historian and communications expert Mark Gilbert Handal.

In 50 years, beyond the daily review and be clear-national and local policy, Jorge Villegas has made valid in people who were overcome.

Missing many columns for writing and for reading many.

For now, his name transcends time and humanistic spirit will continue to help young people who seek advice and help.

One of its most important tasks.

Because, in his long journalistic career has opened puertsa history.

And as Mike said Sherer:

"Journalists the underlying facts?.