Raúl Enríquez had a career that spanned more than four decades, directed more than 70 productions and participated in several soap operas.
LIMA, Peru – Cuban actor and director Raúl Enriquez Zerquera, one of the best-known faces of Cuban soap operas, died this Saturday due to health complications from the coronavirus. chikungunya.
“The artist fought for several days against the virus that exacerbated the complications of the cancer he suffered,” he told Cubanet an actress friend of the actor, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals.
Enríquez, with a career spanning more than four decades, directed more than 70 productions and participated in soap operas such as When andlove is not enoughin different dramatizations and in the police series Following the Trace. His most recent performance was in the soap opera Water Eyewhich will be released soon on the Cubavisión channel.
The actor also directed the Aries Theater Company with which he presented works such as The Plague Family, The dog master, The three Marys and black gangreneamong many more, aimed especially at the community of the 10 de Octubre municipality, where the group’s headquarters were located.
The actor was also an artist consistent with the reality of his people and showed his discontent with the crisis that the country is experiencing, a product mainly of the measures of the Cuban regime.
“How have we advanced? Because the perception we get is that with each passing day we go back even further,” he said in December 2024 after the sessions of the 10th Plenary Session of the Central Committee. of the Cuban Communist Party.
«Public transport is dying without any discussion and the issue of medicines, even when they are regulated and by medical prescription, have ceased to exist. The abusive prices make fun of all approaches and rise excessively without caring about anything so that when this aspect is mentioned I can’t help but smile because I really appreciate it as a well-worn topic,” he added in a post on his Facebook profile.
“Don’t mention that we are patriots, that is more than proven by the terrible situations we have faced. You know, sometimes it sounds like demagoguery and that is not good. There was also talk of changes that the people are crying out for. This aspect has been discussed repeatedly and then I ask myself again: When are they going to happen? When will the frog grow hairs?”, he expressed in statements collected by Cubanet.
The Cubavisión channel mourned the death of the actor with a publication that remembers his career and “his comprehensive and rigorous look at the artistic fact.”
The death of Raúl Enríquez once again puts Cuban acting in mourning. He also died just three weeks ago. the actor Luis Alberto Ramírezone of the legendary figures of Cuban television due to the consequences of chikungunya, but the official media reports also ignored the cause of the unfortunate death.
The Cuban regime has tried to minimize the epidemic that the country has been experiencing for months due to the confluence of different viruses such as dengue, chikungunya and oropouche, accounting so far for 55 deaths from these arboviruses. In contrast, independent reports indicate that the figure may be higher because many people do not go to hospitals due to a lack of resources to accurately diagnose the disease and relieve symptoms.
