I met with Javier Almeida in February 1992. We spoke in Spanish. Not until later, when hearing him on HCJB, did I realize that he was fluent in English. Almeida was reluctant to talk about the tragedy but showed me a number of newspaper cuttings from 1949 which he allowed me to copy. I sent a write up of his story to the German DX-magazine Kurier in 1992, “Eine verfluchte Geschichte” (Kurier #23-24/92, p. 21). The article has one picture showing the corner of Chile and Belalcázar streets, rebuilt after the fire. Combining Almeida´s info with that of the newspapers and the detail contained in Alvaro San Félix´s book “Radiodifusión en la Mitad del Mundo” (Editora Nacional, Quito,1991), I condensed the Radio Quito story for the Latin American edition of the Radio World magazine in their May 25 edition, 1997, p. 28: “La tragedia de Radio Quito”. I filed another version for the #68 issue (no vol. indicated) of the Argentine DX-magazine Conexión, p. 18, “Un hito en la historia de la radiodifusión ecuatoriana: El radioteatro más caro del mundo”. On p.156 in his book, Alvaro San Félix notes that script writer Leonard Páez died in Venezuela on March 14, 1991. Henrik Klemetz (Co-Editor, WRTH Latin American section (exc. Brazil) & Editor WRTH LA-NL, 1987-1995).
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