Jorge Lanata’s family remains silent about the health of the journalist, who has been admitted to the Italian Hospital since Friday, June 14. Yanina Latorre shared in LAM details about the complications that the driver faced in recent days.
Statements by Yanina Latorre
“I said last week, on Friday night, that Jorge had had a short strike, from which he came out quickly and that he was having a stable day and that, if that was the case on Saturday, they were going to let him go home to be able to participate in the Martín Fierro, who were going to go see how the situation was,” the panelist of the América cycle began by saying, a friend of both Lanata and her family, who replaces Ángel de Brito in the leadership of his cycle.
“I’m going to be careful with my words. Also, I am not a doctor and there is no official part. On Saturday he had a very bad respiratory episode, really very bad. They intubated him and from Saturday to today he is sedated and intubated. Only once did they try to lower the sedation, to start extubating, and they couldn’t,” he stated. “Every day they say, ‘Tomorrow we’ll check on him,’” she added.
“His condition is worrying, obviously. Today he remains intubated. Tomorrow will be more than seven days of this episode. There is a lot of concern and that is why there is so much silence. Many people are also asking me. Since he is a journalist, I understand that he has told about others, it seems to me that it is honest to tell how he is doing,” she said.
“I asked if it was a very serious condition, they told me no, but since they are worried and he has been having these episodes for a while, they do not want to wake him up and extubate him until they really see him very well. That is why they prefer to have him sedated and intubated,” he added. In addition, he referred to the secrecy with which both his wife, Elba Marcovecchio, and the relatives of the host of Periodismo para todos are handling themselves.
“I imagine there is a lot of concern in the family. They are not answering, it costs a lot. Elbita is my lawyer and just this week we have to present some briefs. She is not there, she is not working. I talked all the time with her partner, Patricio, because I had to sign papers for the 49 billion lawsuits that I have,” he joked, about how the lawyer is dedicated these days to closely accompanying her husband.
Towards the end, Yanina Latorre dedicated affectionate words to the Lanata sinfilter host, with whom she knew how to work in her radio cycle. “The truth is that I hope he recovers. With all my heart, I love Jorge. I love it. He taught me everything I do on the radio and I hope he recovers soon for him and his entire family. He is a young guy, he has a lot of life ahead of him and I hope he can be well because he wants to continue being well,” he concluded.
Before going through this health episode, the host had been preparing his return to television with his classic Sunday program on El Trece and with a stipulated date, as he himself confirmed. “I start on July 21, the day Susana (Giménez) starts,” he revealed to the Ángel responders team (Bondi Live). “Ah, you are going to compete with Susana,” Ángel de Brito pointed out, surprised. “Yes, I have been competing with her for two years now. Maybe everything is fine, if I have to lose it’s all fine. For me it is an honor to compete with her.” In addition, he mentioned that, in parallel, he continued with his other projects, among them the radio, and that he was not yet planning to publish a new book, after Óxido: historia de lacorrupción en Argentina that he presented in 2023. .
