translated from Spanish: Video: Ecuador journalist breaks down in tears when reporting on coronavirus

Ecuadorian reporter Carlos Julio Gurumendi broke down in tears during a live broadcast for the RTS channel: “In my 35 years as a journalist I had never experienced anything like this,” he confesses to the local press. During a chronicle from the church of Saint Jerome, Chongón, she burst into tears and her tears pierced the screens. “I couldn’t take it anymore. I got an ugly feeling and I thought of my family,” she reflects. Gurumendi is a believing man, faith was instilled in his mother, Gloria, who died in 2017. She was very devoted to the Virgin of Guadalupe. Charles Julius could not hold back the tears as he recounted that the bells of the city’s temples were going to ring to ask God for help in the face of the advance of the pandemic. 

From the studio, the presenter stressed that “journalists are also human beings.” “Like everyone else, he’s also affected by everything that’s going on,” he said. Carlos Julio is one of the journalists who puts his body in place for people to see from their homes how the coronavirus has hit Ecuador hard. To get to work, he has had to leave his home to protect his family: he sleeps on the canal premises. The set of the reality show “Combat” has become his bedroom. “I am voluntarily, outside the home. Without hugging my dad or my sister, or my pets, Kandy and Jelly. It’s super easy to go to the portal of my house with gloves and mask to collect clothes. To be there, unable to embrace them and without feeling the affection of my loved ones. There are times when I break and tears come out. The long days can become exhausting, but we know that’s where we need to be,” rtS reporter said. In this note:

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