Miguel López Hurtado, known as El Hematocrítico on social networks, died this Monday at the age of 47, as confirmed by his partner in a message on Twitter.
The publication Quince Mil alludes to a heart attack as the cause of his death, although this information has not been cited by his companion.
Miguel López Hurtado had been working as a Primary Education teacher in A Coruña for two decades, where he was born in 1976. His name, and especially his nickname El Hematocrítico, gained great popularity thanks to his frequent messages, almost always tinged with humor, in social networks. He had almost 160,000 followers on Twitter and 21,500 on Instagram.
“Our goal must be for our daughters and sons to be happy,” said El Hematocrítico in July 2022 in this interview in EL MUNDO. He lamented that children have “stress” because they are stuck “in this wheel that we have created.”
On the occasion of the publication of his book ‘Escúchalos’, Miguel López El Hematocrítico spoke out “flatly” against homework outside of class. “Children need the rest of the time to develop other skills: to enjoy free time, to read, to run in the park… I think there is a desire to colonize all the time as preparation time, training time” , he assured.
Miguel López Hurtado’s activity was not limited to social networks. One of the publishers with which he worked, Blackie Books, reported in 2018 that El Hematocrítico was the author of numerous very popular humor projects on the Internet such as ‘El Hematocrítico de Arte’, ‘Drama en el Portal’ or ‘Los Hermanos Podcast’ ( with Noel Ceballos). And he cited his collaborations in Cuore, Atresmedia, RTVE and the Tedx conferences. He also remembered that, together with the illustrator Alberto Vázquez, he was the author of the children’s books ‘Feliz Feroz’, ‘Agente Ricitos’ and ‘El lobo con ropa’.