Almudena Ariza is back in her native Madrid. Well, he’s half back. The veteran special envoy, first, a correspondent, then, and turned into a special envoy in recent months because of the war in Ukraine is a restless ass. She doesn’t need to say it. She appears in a cafeteria in the center of Madrid with her husband Luis de ella, a “nomad” like her, and links the interview with a meeting for a project suggested to her by a Spaniard in the Peruvian Amazon. So, at once.
He has spent his whole life with his home on his back and the mere prospect of getting into a newsroom gives him chills. When he finished his second stage in New York last summer, he landed in Spain with one goal: to leave again. And fate was kind. There was an unassigned idea out there, about Spaniards living in troubled areas… “It came in handy for me,” he says.
The result is his new program, Spaniards in conflict, which premieres this Wednesday night on La 1, with which the production company La Cometa TV gives a twist to his classic Spaniards around the world -and its derivatives with Basques and Valencians- to get to know, together with Almudena Ariza, 10 countries where life does not let up, be it the hyper-contaminated Philippines or homophobic Poland, the United States armed to the teeth or Korea, obsessed with perfection and at the forefront of young suicides.
We are too ‘telediariocentric’. It tires me to sit and watch the news and see how we continue to tell things in the same way
I would not present my candidacy again to direct the Information Services of TVE, it would be wasting my time and my effort
Ariza is in favor of change, it has become clear. She wants to explore new “more relaxed” formats, hence her Plano Corto podcast, but also not to stay in the same place for long. “I love living in Spain, but it’s like when you get home and put on your slippers. You’re already comfortable, but maybe too comfortable…”, she explains.
The same thing has happened to him in his different destinations as a correspondent: Beijing, New York, Paris… Never definitive: “I like the feeling that everything is new, of having to learn a language, meet people, that beautiful discomfort makes you keep cool.”
In his suitcase, always running shoes, salsa dancing shoes and a tape recorder. The rest is expendable.
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