Recognized as the most influential television journalist for the third consecutive year, Mónica Delta reflects on the growing demands of today’s journalism, especially in a context of corruption and inefficiency. She highlights the need to go further in investigations and thoroughly analyze events to inform the public objectively. Likewise, she highlights the importance of the responsibility of both journalists and citizens in the search for the truth.
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―’Punto final’ celebrates 15 years on the air, how do you feel about it?
―Well, very happy, very proud of the team I represent. It is a job every week and the truth is that it is a permanent learning process, the complaints and investigations are getting bigger and bigger and I learn from each of the reporters; the truth is because each one of them is a researcher and what I try to do is to collect the spirit of what is ‘Final point’and surround it on the screen. That is, I talk to each one of them, I soak up the work they do and that is what makes us a well-rounded team. We have come to have a very interesting team with the support of the Research Unit that works for the entire area, but obviously there are special jobs that it does for us in ‘Punto final’.
―What is the process between production and your role as host if every Sunday they present updates on cases or new cases?
– Look, there are short-term investigations, there are investigations that take much longer, especially investigations that are in the unit, which is especially the one that has a timing (time) different from the one we have within the ‘Punto Final’ team. On Mondays everyone rests except me because I have the news at night. But they work intensely on Friday and Saturday, so there is compensation there, but on Tuesday there is a very very intense discussion, each one comes proposing their topics, and during the week things change.
One of the characteristics of ‘Final point‘ is that we don’t let go of the dam. For example, a year ago we uncovered the case of Magaly Ruiz’s high salaries, a year has passed and a constitutional accusation has just been raised. We have followed the case in detail for 12 months and every time there was a variant, we raised it within the program. That is one of the characteristics, we do not release the revelation or the complaint on a single Sunday, the follow-up is done. Each of the team members knows that they are in charge of the cases that they have uncovered and reported, so it is truly a very demanding job and the competition is very tough.
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― She was recently chosen as the most influential television journalist for the third consecutive year…
– Well, look, I’m lucky that in the last three years people have determined, this group of privileged people who have access to information, who make decisions, who influence, and that actually makes me be much more careful in the sense of not only informing myself, analyzing and perceiving, but also not having any specific interest. What is happening? What are the elements? And deliver that to the public. I believe that the work is there, you learn that in the time you have in your own work, but there is learning and that is what I think (the public) has valued in me.
― Is the work of journalists today more demanding? Research in this matter has increased since the Castillo government.
― I believe that even journalists have sharpened their pens much more and have made a much greater effort to discover things, because the situation warrants it, and this has remained forever, in the sense of not being afraid, of going further when We know that we are not only surrounded by inefficiency, but also corruption. So, I do believe that we have made progress in that sense and I believe that, furthermore, today a door has been opened that will no longer be closed.
And yes, I believe that there is an involution of the political class and in which we have to be much more careful, the journalists, but also the citizens, that is, there has to be a need to value the responsibility of each of us to have An exit at the end of the tunnel, right? I do believe that journalism is more demanding than before.
― In the 90s and early 2000s, the case of Alex Brocca and Ernesto Pimentel was very popular. Did you have any reach in this regard at that time?
– The truth is none. I have known Ernesto Pimental for a long time, I know characters, but I have to confess that I am a journalist who is normally not informed at all about the world of entertainment, I do not say this with pride or regret, I say it simply and plainly because it is not something that generates particular attention for me. I know that there has been a discussion, I know that Ernesto Pimentel was premiering a film, I know that he had a romantic relationship with this person, yes, because of the illness they have had, but beyond that I could not give an opinion.
― The film ‘Dead or Alive’ has been released, how would you like to take the comments of some people who still relate it to former President García?
– Just as they are generating a whole debate whether he is alive or dead, I want him to rest in peace and I have already said what I have to say, I am 65 years old, I have been listening to the same nonsense and the truth for 30-something years. Personally, I am not interested in answering this at all for any reason, not because I can’t, but because I already answered. But if people want to believe in ghosts, let them continue believing in ghosts, it doesn’t worry me personally.
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― Let’s talk a little about your stay in the United States. I read that he wanted to start from scratch at the time of Toledo, is that true? What happened?
– Of course, you are very young, but yes, it was a very hard campaign. Toledo had gotten it into his head that we were interested in disqualifying him. I did complex, difficult interviews with him on more than one occasion. He appeared at some point, when I was doing an interview on Panorama (Panamericana Televisión), with several drinks too many talking nonsense and I squared it, put him in his place. I knew that if he was going to become president, I was going to have serious (problems); also because the channel and the owner of the channel at that time was linked to (Vladimiro) Montesinos.
So, of course, I was the face of the channel when Genaro Delgado Parker came in. I left because there was simply no room for me; Then they call me from another channel, but then they tell me that, from above, from the highest power, they had indicated that if they hired me they would not give them advertising, things that always happen on television. He has learned that over time, there are always these things. I realized that there was no room for me, I made an important and difficult decision. I was going through a difficult personal moment, a separation, a divorce, and I left with one hand forward and the other behind and start from scratch, yes.
– How long did you stay in the United States?
-I stayed seven years. I started studying with a friend, I took refuge in her house and took my daughter. Later, I went to work on a political radio program and was on Univisión. When my mother got sick, I already made the decision to return and as soon as I returned, the opportunities were still there. Before returning I met Baruch Ichver, he sent me a message and said that he wanted to meet with me. He told me about hiring me at Latina and, since then, I have been at Latina, since 2009.