The renowned actress cried not because of Cuba’s nostalgia, but because of the pain that her compatriots suffer on the island, she said.
Miami, United States. – Cuban actress Susana Pérez published A video on Instagram in which he related a fortuitous encounter with another Cuban at the exit of the gym. The artist thanked the signs of affection and said: “I think I also represent a part of a bit of my country.”
As he said, the woman approached her “almost running.” The exchange made her reflect on the link with her audience inside and outside the island.
In the message, the renowned actress stressed that her tears did not obey nostalgia for returning to Cuba, but to the pain for the crisis that the country is going through: “I am not crying for nostalgia of wanting to return to that country that is being destroyed more every day.” He added that he left the island when there were 11 million Cubans and regretted that “there are less and less.” He also thanked those who from the island “constantly” write to remember her and express her love.
After her arrival in Miami in 2008, the actress has made numerous public statements about the situation of her compatriots and has denounced the island regime.
In an interview granted to Cubanet In 2020Pérez denounced the “reputation shooting campaigns” against citizens who do not repeat the official discourse: “All the leaders, when someone does not agree with them, because they simply dedicate themselves to offend, to demerit, to get out of the trunk of the memories everything that can macate the image of that person,” he said.
In that exchange, he said that I owed nothing to the regime: “The revolution did not give me a house … I did not enjoy absolutely any privilege, except the one I could pay me with the sweat of my forehead and with my work.” And he called to lose fear: “You have to finish taking the initiative and simply do something for freedom.” Finally, he asked Cubans to “not be fooled”: “The world does not end in the Malecon wall, the world begins in the Malecon wall.”
Susana Pérez was born in Havana on May 25, 1952. She is a graduate of the Cuban Television Actors Training School, mother of the actor Roberto San Martín.
Emblematic figure of Cuban television, he starred in titles of great popularity as Roses on credit (1983), Batey sun (1985) and The Balcony of the ferns (2004), characters that marked different generations of spectators.
