To the difficulties and labor risks, the precariousness and lately accusations are added neither more nor less than from the presidency of the Republic.
In the context of the scandal led by Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Carlos Loret de Mola, it is prudent to remember that there are two types of communicators in the country: those who have gained renown for their work or for the interests they represent, in addition to informing, and those who, as Ryszard Kapuscinski taught, have not seen their work as a vocation but as a mission and continue practicing after 30 years and they do it responsibly and ethically.
Specifically, I am talking about Ismael Jiménez, whose work over three decades is not only worthy of admiration, but also an example.
I met Ismael about ten years ago during an environmental forum, at that time nobody was betting on these issues beyond a small section in the newspapers, global warming, although it is a transcendental phenomenon, was an incipient trend in the media and of course very Few people saw business opportunities from it, except of course, Ismael, who in a visionary manner committed himself and saw a very important area of opportunity: for companies that could do business, for example for renewable energies and biodegradable products, as well as those who were interested in transforming themselves (completely or only in form) into green companies and also for journalism with a novel and hitherto unattractive source.
Ismael is a pioneer in the elaboration of rankings on sustainable issues focused on business and creator of Las Empresas Verdes, a magazine specializing in the subject, worked as an editor at Forbes, as well as multiple collaborations in Expansion, Manufacturing, High Level, among others. He is a specialist in economics and business.
The opportunity has wanted a daily job, without a doubt full of financial and even security risks, let us remember that in Mexico so far this administration alone, more than 50 journalists have been murdered, moreover, between 2012 and 2019, in Mexico 499 attacks were registered against people who defend natural resources and territory.
It has not been an easy road and that is why each interview made by him is valued with committed questions with knowledge of the facts, with prepared topics, contrary to what many other journalists do: grab the topics on the fly and continue with talks full of commonplaces .
Ismael is just a good example of those who are, who have always been those who we really read in one or another publication and who have bet heavily on him.
Kapuscinski also said that to be a journalist you have to be a good person, above all, Ismael is one and like him there are hundreds whose work requires our respect.