Ramón Chao Rego

In 1960 he began his collaboration with the RTF's Iberian Languages Service. He was head of this service ten years later. At the same time he was collaborating with the Spanish weekly Triunfo, the monthly Le Monde Diplomatique, and the daily newspapers Le Monde and La Voz de Galicia. Ramón Chao was named chevalier de Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1991 and named as an officier in 2004. In 2003 the Spanish government awarded him the Orden del Mérito Civil. In 1997 he won the prize Premio Galicia de la Comunicación. In 2001, the Liberpress prize in Gerona for his human coherence and his solidarity in the field of journalism: “per la seva coherència humana i solidaritat periodística”. He was the father of radio journalist Antoine Chao and of the musician and singer Manu Chao, both of them members of the Mano Negra band whose Colombian adventure was described in Ramón Chao's book Mano Negra en Colombia: Un tren de hielo y fuego.

• Name — Ramón Chao • Birth Name — Ramón Luis Chao Rego • Born — 21 July 1935 • Birthplace — Vilalba, Galicia, Spain • Died — 20 May 2018 • Place of death — Barcelona, Spain • Occupation — Journalist, writer • Spouse — Felisa Ortega • Children — Manu Chao, Antoine Chao

• De la Bastilla a Moncada Premio Radio La Habana. ORTF (1978 • Conversaciones con Jorge Luis Borges in collaboration with Ignacio Ramonet ORTF (1980) • Julio Cortázar Esbozo with (Adelaida Blázquez) Premio International "España" (1984) • De Berceo al altiplano, itinerario del español Premio International "España" (1985), with Erlens Calabuig.