The last flight of Jaime Ostos, today at eight in the afternoon

The bullfighter died of a heart attack at the age of 90 after having spent a few happy and busy days with dances, boat trips, walks through the most emblematic places where he had succeeded professionally and above all sharing the joy with his wife and close friends.

If a widow has no words to express so much pain”

“I can not believe it. I wake up and think that he got up before me. I don’t know how I am going to be able to cope with his absence. It was pure vitality and the first that convinced me to go out and have fun. It was almost a necessity for him to feel active. He told me ‘María Ángeles, I don’t want to die in a hospital or in bed‘. As an eyewitness of those days that I shared with them, I ratify Ostos’s will to live. In his active days he received extreme unction twice for the terrible fucking in the bullrings. Last year he was admitted to the ICU for COVID. He also came out and his death has been as he wanted after a few days of partying and fun.”

After lunch at one of the couple’s favorite restaurants in Bogotá, they took a nap. When the doctor came in hours later that was when fate stopped distributing good letters to the bullfighter.

There was nothing to do as Dr. Grajal said, broken with pain: “I would say to him, Jaime wake up, Jaime, wake up. It couldn’t be what was happening. And so the love of my life left”.

Today, Tuesday at eight o’clock at night, Colombian time María Ángeles Grajal accompanied by her close friends Ivette Uhia and the retired bullfighter Gitanillo de América take an Air Europa flight with her husband’s ashes.

“The most terrible trip of my life and that I never imagined even in my worst nightmares.” José Hidalgo, owner of the company and a close friend of the couple forever, and his daughter María José have taken care of all the paperwork.

At noon tomorrow they will arrive at Madrid Adolfo Suárez airport where they will be waiting for you their four children María Gabriela, Jaime, Jacobo and Gisela.

On the 20th, as announced on Instagram by her friend, the businesswoman Maika Pérez de Cobas, who also shared holidays with the bullfighter and María Ángeles in Cartagena de Indias, a funeral mass will be celebrated in the church of Santa Bárbara in Madrid.

In Bogotá, on the same Monday, there was a liturgy in the church of Santa Rita, attended by Colombian friends and followers, as well as the Spanish ambassador. Gitanillo de América dedicated an emotional farewell singing from the altar “something dies in the soul when a friend leaves.”