Arturo García Quintana, 44, a member of Sarymanchez’s grandchildren and until last summer physiotherapist of the UD Las Palmas for 16 years, passed away tonight after suffering a heart attack when the murga from Telde interpreted the second of the songs with those who appeared at the Cine Víctor, which forced the suspension of the act. Along the way, the group’s percussion companions warned the director of the murga, Ruben Santana pitu, of the setback suffered by Arturo and on the march the presence of as many doctors or toilets were in the room was required. Arturo García was a member of the physio team of the palms Atlético until last season, when he decided to start a new professional stage. The news has shocked the carnival world and the members of the first team.
the pitu The performance was over, one of the toilets requested that an ambulance be called on the spot and, together with other professionals, they proceeded to try to revive Arturo on the same stage. In a matter of minutes, the medicalized resource arrived and also traveled to the Cine Víctor the Councilor for Festivals of Santa Cruz, Alfonso Cabello, while the rest of the murga, devastated, awaited the evolution of the maneuvers to try to stabilize him to proceed with his transfer to a health center.
With the murgueros from Telde awaiting developments, supported by Manolo Peña, among other members of Mamelucos and the councilor for Fiestas himself, they tried to stabilize Arturo where they previously performed in the first presentation of a costume made by a murga of Gran Canaria in Tenerife the comparsa Los Joroperos, Mamelucos and Enrique Rodda. For more than an hour they gave themselves over to resuscitation maneuvers, without achieving their objective.
Already at 9:40 p.m., the doctors of the health device that treated Arturo García confirmed his death, which caused desolation among his companions, as well as all the murgueros and the public that surrounded Los Nietos.
On this fact, the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has transferred its condolences to the murga and all the family of Las Palmas Carnival of Gran Canaria while the mayor, Jose Manuel Bermudezis trying to do it in person with his counterpart in the capital of Gran Canaria.
For her part, the Councilor for Fiestas of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria City Council, Inma Medina, plans to travel to Tenerife early this Sunday to support the murguero collective.
Presentation
More than four hundred people attended the presentation who starred last night in Los Nietos de Sarymanchez, from Telde and participates in the murga contest from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Those of Ruben Santana pitu they did not disappoint; The recognition and admiration of the fans of Tenerife has always weighed on them, who have seen in this group a sister formation to the critical groups of Santa Cruz due to their good harmony.
The one last night was not an act to encourage piques; The director had already warned him. Rather, they wanted the fourth chapter of the telemurguera that began with a Christmas carol with Mamelucos, in 2017, then took shape in the Carnival in the form of a song, on a round trip, with performances in the two carnivals -and unequal results –, to write another chapter of this fraternal relationship in 2020, when the first swords of Mamelucos, Burlonas, Diablos Locos, Burlonas and Zeta-Zetas They volunteered to act as extras in his contest.
Precisely last night they gave a replica of that award to the five murgas chicharreras, letting them share in the sweetness of the success of three years ago.
The coming and going between presentations of fantasies was felt from this Saturday afternoon in Santa Cruz, with Los Nietos de Sarymanchez, at the Víctor Cinema, where Joroperos performed, who also went to the Guimerá theater for the Diablos Locos gala, while Primi Rodríguez’s murga, who attended the Víctor evening, had planned to perform at the presentation of Twisted, in the South.
