Soledad Gallego-Díaz was director of El País for only two years and one week (from June 8, 2018, to June 15, 2020) of the half-century that the newspaper is celebrating these days, but she is possibly the journalist who best embodies the professional and ideological values that allowed the newspaper to establish itself as the best-selling daily in Spain. In fact, she reached the top position when she was already partially retired – after having rejected it in the late eighties – with the mission of returning the newspaper to its foundational progressive ideology, after the period of open hostility with Pedro Sánchez and the PSOE during the tenure of her predecessor, Antonio Caño. The journalist died this Tuesday, at the age of 75, victim of cancer.