A park in Madrid honors the Spanish war correspondents killed in conflicts
The city of Madrid honors war correspondents, those professionals who risk their lives to tell the world, to tell us, what happens in an armed conflict, with the inauguration of the Garden of José Couso Permuy and Julio Anguita Parrado , a park in Ciudad Lineal where a monolith has been installed to remember the Spanish reporters, photographers and cameramen who lost their lives between 1980 and 2004.
Made of gray granite and divided into three blocks, the names of Luis Espinal Camps (1980), Jesuit assassinated in Bolivia for his defense of Human Rights; Juan Antonio Rodriguez (1989), photographer for El País killed in Panama; Jordi Pujol Puente , photographer for the daily Avui who covered the conflict in the former Yugoslavia; Luis Valtuena Gallego (1997), a Cover Agency photographer assassinated in Rwanda along with two Spanish aid workers; Miguel Gil-Moreno (2000), television cameraman working for the Associated Press in Sierra Leone; Julio Fuentes Serrano (2001), special envoy in Afghanistan for El Mundo; Y Ricardo Ortega Fernandez (2004) , correspondent in Haiti for Antena 3. In addition to those of Jose Couso and Julio Anguita Parrado , assassinated in 2003 when they were covering the war in Iraq for Telecinco and El Mundo, respectively.
The park, which has more than 12,200 square meters, has two basketball courts, a children's area with swings and green spaces, and a dog area, It is located between Doctor Cirajas and José Arcones Gil streets and Vázquez de Mella crossing, next to the Municipal Board of Ciudad Lineal.