2023-05-03 15:43:38
He was a fundamental pillar in the development of the city together with his wife.
One of the pioneers of Ciudad Guayana and the main person responsible for its development, Pedro Acosta, passed away this Wednesday, relatives of his family informed.
Although from Caracas by birth, he settled in Bolívar, especially in Caroní, to be one of the most famous people in its history. In his work as a public relations officer, he stood out and marked an era in CVG.
He arrived at the age of 34 and today, following turning 80, he is recognized by the inhabitants as a pioneer in the field of Public Relations.
His arrival in the nascent Puerto Ordaz occurred with the Orinoco Mining Company. He was “scared”, he recounted in an interview with PRIMICIA in 2020.
When he arrived there were no bridges connecting San Félix and Puerto Ordaz. He came to work in the Public Relations area, to survey the area.
Acosta is from Caracas and was already married to Graciela (la Nena) Camacho de Acosta, with whom he had two little girls: María Carolina and María Antonieta.
A great opportunity was painted in the panorama, so he had to travel alone first and then coordinate visits every 15 days.
Either “la Nena” would come to Puerto Ordaz or he would travel to Caracas. She had this dynamic for at least 6 months while she lived in the Hotel Rasil, she recalled at the time of her.
He did not imagine that a possible “meanwhile” would leave him planted in the Iron Zone.
In that interview, he commented that many people came to Ciudad Guayana prepared to work.
The first stage, the most important in the CVG, was with General Rafael Alfonzo Ravard for the development of the city and then came the planning with the Joint (Center for Urban Studies – of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University) of United States (1961).
Ravard was succeeded in 1974 by Argenis Gamboa as president of the CVG.
At that time, he recounts, “La Nena began to work at the Casa de la Cultura with Juan Pagés (…) She went every day (from Puerto Ordaz) to San Félix. When Dr. Gamboa came, Fundec was created, the Guayana Cultural Development Foundation, which was chaired by Gamboa’s wife and began a great development with its own budget and that the (basic) companies also contributed”.
His words also mark the impulse to the cultural movement in the “industrial” city.
“La Siderúrgica, when Dr. Barreto was president, gives the authorization to found the Sidor Art Room, which was the Palace of the Arts of Ciudad Guayana to call it that. (…) There came everything: great musicians, violinists, a range of cultural people”, Pedro Acosta recalled at the time.
Experiences that are history
In his life story, there was a chapter that marked him: The work with Leopoldo Sucre Figarella.
He confesses that the days were interminable. He recalled that Sucre Figarella ate everything for breakfast and in good quantities (from canned sardines to Guyanese cheese); then he understood, that he had to resist for the numerous meetings and tasks of the day.
He was aware of even the smallest detail of the city. Personally, the uncontrolled schedule began to take its toll on the Acosta-Camacho home because he hardly had time to be with his wife and his daughters.
Sucre Figarella attended to the pending in meetings that sometimes began at 7:00 at night. He tried to convince him to lower the schedules, but the answer sat him down.
“Pedro, those people that I attend to at 7:00 at night have to stay, pay for a hotel, cars, food, tickets… that is a realero that enters the city. (…) He had tremendous logic, ”he says with a laugh, highlighting the brilliant mind of the then president of CVG between 1984 and 1993.
Don Pedro Acosta, as he is affectionately known in the city, worked at the CVG until the arrival of Francisco Rangel Gómez. He asked for his retirement.
But he was not leaving for anything political, Rangel Gómez himself asked him to stay and he did so for 4 years. In 2004 he did retire.
Pedro Acosta was the protagonist of important moments for the city such as the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1985 and even the commissioning of the Guayana hydroelectric complexes.
from daily scoop We send condolences to his family and friends at Pedro Acosta.
Our great friend, Don Pedro Acosta, a pioneer in the development of Guayana, a fundamental figure in the iron industry, has passed away. We share with him a good journey of his long, honest and fruitful career as a public servant. Rest in peace, Perucho. pic.twitter.com/COew0EyEyV
– Andrés Caleca (@ajcaleca) May 3, 2023
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