Ángel Sánchez Mendoza (Guayaquil, 1963 – 30 March 2020)[1] was an Ecuadorian journalist, news director of Ecuavisa, TC Televisión and Gamavisión as well as director of communication of Guayas Prefecture and the University of Guayaquil.
[3] During the rebellion of the military bases of Manta, Quito and Taura, in 1986, and the kidnapping of President León Febres Cordero, Sánchez, then a production assistant, accompanied reporter María Teresa Arboleda who entered the rebel-held base; mutinous soldiers later opened fire as they were leaving.
[3] On 15 September 2011, he retired from his position as news director, as had been agreed the previous year; the channel's directors, however, required Sánchez's presence again, due to the changes of the new general manager, Mexican sociologist Luis Beltrán, who came from TC Televisión.
He married for the second time with Melania Quichimbo, Radio City host and journalist for El Universo, with whom he had a daughter.
[4] Sánchez died in the afternoon of 30 March 2020, at the age of 56, in the Guasmo Sur hospital, due to complications of the COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2, during the pandemic in Ecuador.