On the occasion of his 80th birthday, popular presenter Mario Kreutzberger, better known as Don Francisco, will recount his memoirs in the book “ With Desire to Live ”, which goes on sale in May, this was announced this Wednesday in a Penguin Random House Publishing Group statement. In an intimate tone, but also full of humor that characterizes him, Kreutzberger constructs the story of his life, “which is at the same time the history of Chilean television at its beginnings”, indicates the editorial on this volume of 400 pages that includes details about the personal life of the creator and host of Sábado Gigante, the longest running show in television history. These pages also integrate the construction of a space of visibility for the millions of Latino immigrants in the United States with the internationalization of “Sábado Gigante” and its projection in all the countries of the continent, underlines the editorial. The publishing house classifies the volume as an “intimate tale of the host who brought the Hispanic world together.” Through an exhaustive investigation, anticipates Penguin Random House, Kreutzberger reconstructs his father’s detention in the Buchenwald concentration camp, Nazi Germany, in 1938, and the odyssey to emigrate them to Chile, where the presenter was born. December 28, 1940. Why do I want to write a book? I asked myself several times before starting, and I always came to the same conclusion: Because I am a communicator and I live and breathe from the daily exercise of communicating (…) ”, thus begins the Chilean at the age of 80. “It is a need which I cannot divorce, which has become almost an obsession in my life, which gave me great satisfaction and one or the other inconvenience”, also testifies the host of the Telethon, a solidarity crusade that has made it possible to build 14 rehabilitation institutes across Chile, where more than 31,000 children and young people with disabilities are treated each year. https://www.instagram.com/p/COBrjqZBsVI/ Don Francisco le grand inheritance He underlines that for his important social work, the United Nations Organization for Children (Unicef) conferred on Kreutzberger the title of ambassador . With the desire to live, tells of the conversations of Don Francisco with former American presidents such as George W. Bush and Barack Obama. It may interest you: Don Francisco is accused of being “homophobic” Chilean reflects on such dramatic immigration issues as family separation, deportations, the possibility of legalizing undocumented Temporary Protection Laws (TPS) or the future of the so-called “dreamer” students.
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