Journalist Miguel Salazar, known for “Las Verdades de Miguel” passed away

During the night of this Monday, August 12, the news of the death of the Venezuelan journalist was released, Miguel Salazar, who in life was director of the media “Miguel’s Truths“, after suffering some health problems.

“Las Verdades de Miguel informs the country, with great sadness, of the death of Miguel Antonio Salazar Rondón. An honest journalist, he dedicated his life to the country, to the heroic exercise of placing the truth above all else. Miguel’s truths were his contribution to peace.”, This is the message that can be read on the Instagram account of this media, through which they spread the information.

Salazar had been suffering from some health complications, and hours before his death, through his account on X, it was announced that his condition was critical..

«We inform you that the journalist Miguel Antonio Salazar Rondón, director of Las verdades de Miguel, is in a delicate state of health. We ask all his readers to join his family in a chain of prayer for his speedy recovery.”, part of the text reads.

Miguel Salazar, as he announced on his social media, defined himself as a “24-hour journalist.”

“I write my truths without caring about those in power who try to silence me”, could be read in his biography.

After his death was announced, several of Salazar’s colleagues and friends reacted through social media.

“My colleague and friend, Miguel Salazar, director of Las Verdades de Miguel, has passed away in Caracas. We shared pleasant moments, always discussing the passion for journalism… My condolences to his family.”, These were the words he dedicated to the communicator Euclides Sotillo, President of the Social Security Institute for Journalists.

Alexander Montilla, former director of the newspaper Panorama, also joined in, saying: “He was a political analyst who confronted power at the end of the democratic era and in the current cycle.”.

It should be remembered that Salazar was one of the great critics of Hugo Chavez and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. After the president’s death, he was also critical of Nicolas Maduro..

In the same way, through his editorials he criticized the various versions of the Venezuelan opposition, from the one that brought together traditional parties in 2004 to promote the recall referendum to the Democratic Unitary Platform itself that participated in the Barbados dialogues.