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 a great memory for everyone who knew him because of his character that he performed a characterized clown with his peculiar mask with the name Niko Liko.
Mr. Gaytán Muruato is survived by his children Sandra, Saúl, Samuel, Gerardo and Luis Carlos, as well as his grandchildren Rodolfo, Marco Antonio, Alexandra, Mara and Andrea, an excellent father and loving grandfather, always devoted to his family and to the One who approached him was modest in his actions and always jovial, those who knew him know his taste for good talk, his positive attitude and his nostalgia for the country that saw him born on October 22, 1939, Panuco Zacatecas.
His early years in Ciudad Juárez, whose streets he walked barefoot to sell newspapers from the age of 10 to the age of 17, that was when he entered XEJ Radio y Televisión as an apprentice, were the guiding principles for Toño. as his friends and colleagues called him, he developed as a personal, empathetic and humble person in his human relationships. Now that time had passed, he stood out as an audio operator, cinematographer, video operator and editor on Channel 5 in the city, later accepted an opportunity to host a live television show, suggested by Don Pedro Meneses Hoyos, owner and founder of the company, that’s how Niko LIko and his friends were born, a program he directs from 1973 to 1992, when it went off the air and that gave him so much satisfaction with his work as a social service that anyone who would want to watch on television to appear, either by sending greetings, dancing, singing or reciting some poetry and also very importantly, entertaining the children of Ciudad Juárez and El Paso with cartoons and competitions.
Niko Liko undoubtedly leaves a legacy as an entertainer, for so many years of work on television, but also for his work of service to the community off-camera, until his retirement in 2019 at the age of 80 and offering his help. . in Jesús El Salvador Parish, of which he was a member and who received him with great kindness and warmth in his later years.
Rest in peace, Mr. Antonio Gaytán Muruato, who has left his mark on this community that saw him unfold as he was and will surely leave some memory in the minds of those who knew him.
Likewise, we, his family, thank the community in general for their prayers and prayers, for realizing his health and for his words of encouragement at such a deplorable loss, the statement said.