The Local Government Board, at its meeting on Wednesday 30, at the proposal of the Department of Culture and Heritage, remember to express your sympathy to the children and families, as well as showing "our tribute and thanks to Pedro Farias Garcia, for his contribution the world of culture and journalism, and our appreciation for all the efforts for the benefit of the Region of Murcia and, especially, with the town of Alhama de Murcia ".
With this recognition, the city of Alhama want to express sympathy for grievous loss to his children and family and at the same time, to consider and recognize their close links to Alhama;
one part family-because his maternal grandfather, D. Macario Garcia Diaz was alhameño and brother of General D. Manuel García Díaz and, moreover, linked to the town of Alhama, having lived several years of his childhood and in the sixties by the visits to the population because of their work in public bodies, mainly the Delegation of Trade Unions.
Also, the proposal supported by all Local Government explained that it was a degree in Political Science, Economics and Business, Diploma in Political Sociology and Doctor of Laws, journalist and writer, had a brilliant political career and, after her, went to the chair of the School of Information Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he became dean and from where he developed a major university teaching and work as a teacher of great journalists.
He is the author of numerous publications and around Liberty Media Management, Modern State and Dialectic, Spain d Constitutional History and information or public Freedoms and was also coordinator of conferences and seminars of Journalism and Information Sciences.
In 2007 he was awarded the distinction of Honorary Member of the Press Association of Murcia.
In Alhama de Murcia, Pedro Farias spent part of his childhood with his mother and his brother José María where they lived on the street Salitres, No. 11, coinciding with several colleagues, including his friend Enrique Lopez Chaparro.
He later moved to Murcia where he continued his law studies at the University of Murcia and held various political positions in the trade union organization chart.
In the sixties Alhama visited several times by supporting various political and cultural events such as the Floral Games of 1961, the opening of the Library in 1964, different cultural conference at the Casino de Alhama, etc..
collaborating in various newspapers and magazines.
Similarly promoted and facilitated all steps were processed requests the State and, from his post in Madrid, supported with special dedication and love whatever reason Alhama de Murcia.
In the late sixties, the family purchased a small farm in Gebas, where he usually came when his work permitted, remembering that vacation was going on in his youth in the farm of Mrs. Josefa García, his mother's cousin Ms. Pilar García Monet.
Part of those memories reflected in his poems.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia