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Raúl del Pozo

has been in journalism for 60 years. In his early eighties he has the

making of a legend with something of a bucardo

, of the only one of the species. He is superstitious, like the gypsies. And distrust praise like the Buddhists. In the eighties he frequented this same disco where now, with the pandemic a little further away, he presents a book with an eccentric, disconcerting title:

'Don't give the dog any more whiskey'

(La Esfera de los Libros), his "unauthorized" biography but consensual, written by journalists Julio Valdeón and Jesús F. Úbeda, assembling interviews with more than fifty friends, enemies and their surroundings.

The result is a lavish, blissfully messy, compelling, and gripping story.

It is hard to believe that so much adventure fits in a single life.

Journalism, literature, travel, poker, casinos, Café Gijón, friends ...

Raúl del Pozo's existence unfolds like a map where the clues are the treasure.

An instruction manual on what a jungle-minded man who now lives in a garden accumulated.

At the

Pachá nightclub

, Del Pozo appeared in other decades when some parties with a lot of sequins magnetized celebrities with very different hairs.

He drew from there, the temple of his friend Pedro Trapote, chronicles with its dose of audacity and its weight of evil.

Inside the street journalism, which in Raúl is also one of the best.

This Friday, shy, he was like so many other nights but now he was the one being persecuted.

"This tributes now is horrible. They only give them to ETA members," he said.

"The perpetrators screwed me up: they only talked to my friends because

my enemies are dead

."

Pachá was reminiscent of a bazaar where no one sold anything, but a lot of merchandise was displayed.

Several generations linked to the shadow of Del Pozo

. Journalists, businessmen, politicians, hustlers with reputations as solid as they are dubious. All together and at the same time. There were Margarita Robles, Andrea Levy, Begoña Villacís, José María García, Rosa Villacastín, Pilar Cernuda, Marta Flich, Edu Galán, Manuel Jabois, Jorge Bustos and Patricia Reyes, Lita Trujillo ... And it made sense, because Raúl's life is something of that: a geyser steaming in all directions and summarized in the newspapers with extreme precision, with infectious enthusiasm, with boldness.

He began to earn a living as a school teacher in a town in Cuenca and in Madrid he rose to the top of the job as a reporter for the newspaper 'Pueblo'. He belonged to the PCE, he

went through some of the most important newspapers

, he was on the radio, he was in Russia before Perestroika, in London with the squads, in Cape Canaveral when man went to the Moon, in the Portuguese Revolution of Los Claveles, published five novels ... he has lived the second half of the 20th century without missing out on what mattered. And he has counted on it with a non-transferable journalism, with a strong, direct, evocative style.

Raúl is still sane.

Every day he crunches his fingers before writing, plays with his dog, listens, calls, interprets and throws himself into the column, on the back cover of EL MUNDO, as when as a young man he tried to extract from words what to say the things of another way.

And so he continues to officiate

.

Only with half of what he has seen many others would not have had time to tell it.

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