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''Séptimo día'' (
Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: ** Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Ca ...
: "Seventh day") is a Colombian
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broadcast by Caracol TV on Sunday evenings. It proclaims itself as "a weapon against injustice". ''Séptimo día'' first aired in 1996 on
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, when Caracol TV was still a production company. At the time it was presented by its creator,
Manuel Teodoro Manuel Teodoro is an American journalist. He was born in 1960 in New Orleans. His father is a Filipino and his mother was born in Cartagena de Indias. Teodoro majored in journalism from the University of Miami and started his career in 1984 a ...
, and Adriana Vargas. The show was successful, but also had to face a number of lawsuits, which was the reason Caracol TV pulled it off the air in 2000. Eventually, Caracol TV won all the legal suits. A new season of ''Séptimo día'' started on 10 June 2007, presented by Teodoro and
Silvia Corzo Silvia Milena Corzo Pinto (born October 30, 1973 in Bucaramanga, Santander) is a Colombian lawyer and presenter. Biography Her parents are Mario Corzo and Irene Pinto. After finishing high school, Corzo studied at the Universidad Autónoma de ...
. Since 1 May 2011,
María Lucía Fernández María Lucía Fernández (born October 14, 1968, in Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and ...
co-hosts the programme with Teodoro. In the
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market, ''Séptimo día'' is broadcast by WGEN-TV on Sunday nights.


Format

The format is somewhat similar to CBS ''
60 Minutes ''60 Minutes'' is an American television news magazine broadcast on the CBS television network. Debuting in 1968, the program was created by Don Hewitt and Bill Leonard, who chose to set it apart from other news programs by using a unique st ...
'', featuring three long-form news stories. ''Séptimo día'' usually undertakes its own investigations. Some episodes feature one or two stories; one story can also span multiple episodes. One of the stories deals with controversial issues, such as
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,
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s or even the
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. As its
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n counterpart, many stories focus on allegations of wrongdoing and corruption, but instead of focusing politicians or corporations, ''Séptimo día'' deals with companies, businesses or persons who usually practice
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s and who are denounced by the viewers. They are commonly either subjected to an interview, or try to evade contact with the ''Séptimo día'' crew altogether, either by written notice or by simply fleeing from the approaching journalist and their camera crew. The third story is often a more light-hearted report or a profile.


Controversies on Season 2

On the episode broadcast 2 March 2008, ''Séptimo día'' denounced a
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case at the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF), involving an employee who was asking for money in order to speed adoption processes up. The next week, Elvira Forero, director of ICBF, sent a letter to Paulo Laserna Phillips, CEO of Caracol TV, stating that the corruption case was presented in a " sensationalist" way. Ms Forero added that the case was already under investigation and that ''Séptimo día'' had broken a law forbidding media to broadcast or publish names and data ''"which identify or could lead to the identification of children and teenagers."''Carta a Paulo Laserna Phillips
Elvira Forero Hernández, Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar, 13 March 2008
On 25 April 2008, the involved employee was captured and later releasedQueda en libertad ex funcionaria acusada de cobrar por adopciones
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, 25 April 2008
because an error in the arrest procedure; she would be captured again two months later.Recapturan a funcionaria del ICBF
Caracol Radio Caracol Radio (''Cadena Radial Colombiana'', "Colombian Radio Network") is one of the main radio networks in Colombia. Founded in Medellín in 1948 when ''La Voz de Antioquia'' station acquired the 50% of ''Emisoras Nuevo Mundo'', based in Bogot ...
, 24 June 2008
Óscar Vela
¡Adopciones por dinero!
'' El Espacio'', 26 June 2008
On the 9 March 2008 episode, ''Séptimo día'' broadcast a special report by Teodoro about the situation of Colombian immigrants in
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, victims of
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. Teodoro interviewed a fellow journalist, living in Spain, who was beaten and kicked by Spaniard youngsters. The next day, the journalist called W Radio to denounce that Teodoro stated, by using the
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technique, in the episode broadcast the night before —which he watched on
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— that he received
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and suffered several fractures, which, according to him, was not true. He called Teodoro a "liar" and a "sensationalist."Manuel Teodoro, director de Séptimo Día, defiende la veracidad de las imagenes donde demuestra agresiones a un colombiano en España por xenofobia
''W Radio Colombia'', 10 March 2008

Gustavo Castro Caycedo, ''Magazín Ver Bien'', March 2008
In an article on this incident for a magazine, veteran journalist Gustavo Castro Caycedo criticizes Teodoro and quotes
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(also a journalist), who had questioned in 1999 the use of the
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technique in ''Séptimo días season 1. A
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local prosecutor prevented Caracol TV to broadcast an episode two days before its scheduled transmission on 25 April 2008, and asked for the raw audiovisual material recorded for a report by Marcela Pulido,Una fiscal ordena recoger archivos del programa 'Séptimo Día' y prohibe emisión. Habla Manuel Teodoro
Caracol Radio Caracol Radio (''Cadena Radial Colombiana'', "Colombian Radio Network") is one of the main radio networks in Colombia. Founded in Medellín in 1948 when ''La Voz de Antioquia'' station acquired the 50% of ''Emisoras Nuevo Mundo'', based in Bogot ...
, 9 May 2008
dealing with the case of an unidentified woman who had health and personal issues because of a poorly performed buttock augmentation. The woman wished to expose (with the help of ''Séptimo día'') the
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who, without being a
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or a
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, illegally performed the surgery.'' Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa''
Public prosecutor prohibits broadcast of cosmetic surgery exposé, demands television station's files on case
International Freedom of Expression eXchange, 9 May 2008
The prosecutor, who was investigating the case, based her decision on the grounds that ''Séptimo día'' was ''"asked to deliver all of the information obtained by tto this office, in order to clarify the incidents in question."'' Teodoro told
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, an NGO which works for journalists' rights, that he was ''"surprised that just before the programme was to be aired, legal proceedings are said to have been initiated by the Prosecutor's Office,"'' because the only investigation on the issue so far was ''"the one his programme has undertaken."'' The episode would eventually be broadcast 24 August 2008, after getting an authorization. ''Séptimo día'
¿Cuál puede ser el precio de la belleza?
(full episode), Caracol TV, 24 August 2008
On 20 and 27 July 2008 ''Séptimo día'' dealt with the so-called '' Narcotourism'' in Bogotá,
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, and Cartagena, showing how foreigners come to Colombia in order to get easy and cheap access to
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s. Cartagena's
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, Col. Carlos Mena Bravo, after being asked by journalist Gloria Lozano why foreigners are not searched when some parties allegedly known to involve drug use end at sunrise, replied ''"we do not want to bother the foreigners, if it is not because of the results of an investigative process of information we have received about this person may be possessing narcotics."'' ''Caracol TV''
Séptimo día: La ruta del vicio - part 2.1
27 July 2008; transcription a
Faabis.com
(07:27 - 08:24)
Gloria Lozano: A las 6:00 de la mañana, justo cuando empieza a amanecer se prenden las luces de la discoteca, la rumba termina. En frente de la entrada principal se encuentran un par de policías. Usted se preguntará: ¿por qué no hacen una requisa? El coronel Carlos Ramiro Mena es el Comandante de Policía de Cartagena... Coronel, ¿la policía le hace requisas a los extranjeros en las calles?
Col. Carlos Mena: Nosotros no queremos molestar a los extranjeros, si no es por el resultado de un proceso investigativo o por información que hayamos recibido de que ésta persona podría portar estupefacientes.
Lozano: Es por este trato flexible que los extranjeros dicen amar a Colombia y en especial a Cartagena: nadie los molesta, andan libremente consumiendo droga muy barata sin meterse en líos policiales.
In the following days, tourist guides demonstrated showing their contempt for the way they were depicted in the episode. The demonstrators were carrying banners, one of them reading "''Séptimo día'' is a lie." Juan Carlos Díaz
Rebelión contra ‘Septimo Día’
'' El Heraldo'', July 2008
They told
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-based '' El Heraldo'' newspaper that two men, claiming to be tourist guides, who told the journalists about where and who sold drugs were actually
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s. In a column published by ''
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'' newspaper, writer Pascual Gaviria criticized ''Séptimo día'' because ''"the tone f the special report on Narcotourismwas of false surprise and permanent moral condemnation."'' Pascual Gaviria
Calculada indignación
''
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'', 2 August 2008
On 27 March 2011, ''Séptimo día'' dealt with the case of Sandra/Alexander, born in 1972 with
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(
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) and who had his
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surgically removed, with the knowledge of her/his parents following the advice of Dr.
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, who would be later considered the "father of
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" in Colombia. Such was the then
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procedure for these cases at the time. Dr. Bonilla was interviewed by ''Séptimo día'' reporter
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, who did not initially tell him about the specific case he dealt with more than 30 years before. The episode included an interview with a former member of the Medical Ethics Tribunal, who stated that the surgery was a "fatal mistake." During the episode, which focused in the suffering of Sandra/Alexander after having found out he was actually a man, following years of being raised as a woman, the journalists heavily criticized Dr. Bonilla, claiming he was "playing to be God". The episode prompted dozens of complaints by fellow physicians and medicine students, with several institutions such as Hospital de la Misericordia (a pediatric hospital where Dr. Bonilla works), the Colombian Society of Pediatric Surgery, and the Colombian Surgery Association, among others, sending letters of protest to the network. The episode was analysed on the 14 April 2011 episode of ''Doble vía'' (a programme of the Caracol TV ''defensoría del televidente'' iewer ombudswoman's office, where
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, the network's viewer ombudswoman, stated that "a more accurate look from the point of view of medicine" was missing on the ''Séptimo día'' episode. On the 17 April 2011 episode, ''Séptimo día'' issued a clarification, recognizing that when contacting Dr. Bonilla they did not specifically tell him about the case, and broadcasting excerpts of a second interview with Dr. Bonilla (on his request) which was not broadcast 27 March, where the physician clarifies why did he recommended the procedure, citing the pioneering surgery work by endocrinologists from
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, such as doctor
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, and explaining the controversies in the medical community which followed. Suescún also travelled to
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,
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, trying to interview a physician who had continued with the treatment for Sandra/Alexander, after the family moved to that city.


References


External links


Official site
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Site on WGEN-TV


* ttp://hispanic-tv.jumptv.com/2007/06/en_jumptv_regre.html Press release on Season 2 launch {{DEFAULTSORT:Septimo Dia Colombian television news shows 1996 Colombian television series debuts 2000s Colombian television series 2010s Colombian television series Caracol Televisión original programming