Journalist, teacher and writer Salvador Perez Perez He already acts as the first official chronicler of the history of the municipality of La Guancha. A function that this teacher of journalists has exercised in fact for decades in the pages of El Eco de Canarias, Aire Libre, La Tarde, Jornada Deportiva, EL DÍA or La Gaceta de Canarias, and in his many books. This “universal guanchero”, as he likes to define himself; tireless traveler; vocational teacher, and promoter of the Carlos Salvador and Beatriz Foundation, fruit of the tragedy that supposed, in June of 2001, the death of its two children in a traffic accident. From that pain was born a solidary entity that has helped to complete their studies to more than 600 young canaries.
This appointment falls, how could it be in a better way, to the person who has written the most on the municipality of La Guancha and that, in his professional career, he has always shown himself to be a staunch defender of the closest journalism, of that which narrates the history and intra-history of towns and their neighbors. Loved and respected in the journalistic profession, the president of the Association of Journalists of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Salvador Garcia Llanosrecently wrote that Salvador Perez Perez he is a “universal guanchero, but also indomitable, indefatigable, insightful, sensitive… The first official chronicler of his native town, La Guancha, who has made known with proven will to project his values, his agricultural vocation, his search for space and identity in the diverse north of Tenerife, mainly from education and literary-journalistic production».
For Salvador Garcia, «Salvador Pérez, octogenarian, was already a chronicler before being officially one, since last Saturday, when the unanimous agreement of the guanchera corporation materialized». No one disputes the appropriateness of the election of this guanchero born in The Calvary, proud neighbor of his town. There is no debate with someone who has worked so hard for La Guancha in areas as disparate as culture, education, football, basketball, music… left a mark on Union and Fraternity Cultural Centerwhere he organized hundreds of cultural events, and with his collaboration with the remembered Fairs of La Guancha.
“Salvador Pérez, octogenarian, was already a chronicler before being officially one”
The guanchero mayor, Antonio Hernandezsaid in that act of justice and logic that was the appointment of Salvador Perez that «he has been doing the job for a long time, and he did not need this official recognition to speak, count and interpret the data that he then pours into journalistic collaborations, on the pages of a book, in the program of some parties and even in the words that he gathers in his speeches. Salvador, as he rightly says, his whole life has been chronicling, so I think this honor should have been given to him a long time ago».
Universal and tireless
The mayor of La Guancha, Antonio Hernández, values the recent designation of Salvador Pérez as the first official chronicler of the northern municipality’s history: «Salvador Pérez is a universal, tireless, incombustible guanchero, who carries La Guancha in his veins and where wherever it goes Having him is a true luxury for our people and our history.”
