Juarez City- With deep sadness, the Gaytán García family communicated the sensitive death of our father Antonio Gaytán Muruato, which took place on March 26 at the age of 81 and which leaves an extraordinary memory for all those who knew him for his character on who played him featuring a strange masked clown named Niko Liko.
Mr. Gaytán Muruato is survived by his children Sandra, Saúl, Samuel, Gerardo and Luis Carlos, as well as by his grandchildren Rodolfo, Marco Antonio, Alexandra, Mara and Andrea, an excellent loving father and grandfather, always dedicated to his family and the expansion of the One who approached him was modest in his actions and always jovial, those who knew him know his taste for a good word, his positive attitude and nostalgia for the country that saw him born on October 22, 1939, Panuco Zacatecas .
His first years in Ciudad Juárez, the streets of which he walked barefoot selling newspaper from the age of 10, until the age of 17, when he joined XEJ Radio y Televisión as an apprentice, were the guidelines for Toño. as his friends and colleagues called him, he developed as a sympathetic, empathetic, and humble person in his human relationships. Now that time had passed, he distinguished himself as an audio operator, cameraman, video operator and publisher on Channel 5 in the city, later accepting an opportunity to host a live television program proposed by Don Pedro Meneses Hoyos, owner and founder of the company , this is how Niko LIko and his friends were born, a program he ran from 1973 to 1992, when it went off the air and which left him with so much satisfaction for his social service work, hosting all those who would like to appear on TV, either sending congratulations, dancing, singing or reciting some poems and also very importantly, amusing the children of Ciudad Juárez and El Paso with cartoons and contests.
Undoubtedly, Niko Liko leaves a legacy as an animator, for so many years of work in television, but also for his work in the community service outside the room, until his retirement in 2019 at the age of 80, offering him help. .in the parish of Jesús El Salvador, of which he was a member and which received him with much kindness and warmth in later years.
Rest in peace to Mr. Antonio Gaytán Muruato, who has left his mark on this community that has seen it unfold as it was and that will surely leave a memory in the minds of those who knew him.
Likewise, we, his family, thank the community at large for their prayers and prayers, for being aware of his health and for his words of encouragement in such an unfortunate loss, the statement said.