Marcela Sarmiento is the renowned journalist who is part of the Despierta América team. In the mornings, she exhibits in Univision’s morning from interviews to reports that are highly anticipated by viewers of the famous Hispanic network. However, behind her warm smile there is a life story that is marked by the pain of loss.
In the year 2005 she experienced a real blow. Being nine months pregnant and ready for delivery she was faced with the death of her baby. In a conversation with Francisca Lachapel, she said: “There was an accident in my belly and the umbilical cord became entangled and Miguel did not receive more oxygen and died.” This is a pain that, even with the passing of the years, she cannot overcome.
The loss of a child in these circumstances is undoubtedly something she has had to learn to live with. Likewise, she narrates it out loud when she says: “Deep down you don’t get over it. You learn to live with that situation. Learn to live with that pain. I had to leave Colombia to be able to recover because I was very sad, very bad.”
From Colombia they emigrated to the United States. While her husband was there, the journalist Alejandro Nieto received an offer that they could not refuse and the move was made again, this time to Europe, specifically to Spain. However, her life would make her return to Miami. And when her husband was in the new continent, leaving Marcela in Spain, she received her call.
Alejandro was preparing the apartment where they were going to live, there he would receive his wife and daughters. That day he went to the gym and there he fainted. They called her and told her what was happening: they were trying to revive him. A nightmare of terror broke out. “I did not know what to say; what was happening was not a horror movie… it was real and it was happening to me“.
Nieto was then the general manager of Univision Radio. The journalist lost his life. For Marecela, facing the facts while being so far away was even worse. All this was discussed by Marcela in the year 2019.
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