Cuban actor Pedrito Martínez, known for his participation in the telenovela Entrega and in the television series Lucha contra bandidos he left his country in search of a better life.
Born in Pinar del Río, the young man lives in San Antonio, Texas, although he has been able to visit Miami several times, a city where he has many friends and where he feels like he is in Cuba.
In addition to his work on television, Pedrito performed several plays with the theater company El Público directed by Carlos Díaz and acted in the film Vicenta B. by Carlos Lechuga, in which he played the protagonist’s son.
In an interview with the Yucabyte portal, he regretted that the regime’s censorship prevented the showing of this film in Cuba, which he describes as a “lack of respect”.
“Cuba always seemed to me to be a rather censored country in terms of art and the criteria of the creators. When defending Cuba As “they” think it should be defended, everything is fine; But if a creator dares to tell the truth about what’s happening, they can be censored,” he said.
“Censoring a work of art is a gross disrespect, and even more so when the work reflects reality. Cuba is an old island. Young people are leaving the country because they can’t stand this system. That sounds ugly to me.” “A work is being censored that talks about the pain Cuba is going through; the pain of mothers, grandmothers, fathers suffering from the loss of their children,” he stressed.
Martínez arrived in the United States via the Central American route from Nicaragua to Mexico, where he made the final jump.
He assured that he left his homeland for the same reasons that drive all Cubans to leave: the lack of everything.
“Cubans feel very bad that for some reason they are taking away the internet, that there is nowhere to eat, that they are censoring their own works after they have already been approved (…) Cuba has too many shortcomings,” said he called.
The young actor is the first member of his family to leave the family and now he is happy to be able to help them in a place where there are more opportunities.
“I left because Cuba didn’t give me anything anymore. I couldn’t continue living in Cuba because I felt bad every day. And that’s why I left because I felt bad in the country where I was born, it’s very sad because it’s my country, but … they force us: the police, the presidents, the Laws and the scarcity of everything from common sense to food,” he stressed.
“To know that there is no transport, there is no food, they turn off the electricity whenever they want, they turn off the internet, you are constantly living on the edge. That’s what I miss least about Cuba.” , the fact of living on the edge and constantly surviving. I don’t like surviving. I like living,” he added.
Pedrito was one of the thousands of Cubans who took to the streets to protest on July 11, 2021. From that day on, he has a painful memory of how the police beat people. “Cubans hit each other,” he said.
“My message to the Cubans on the island is that they will do whatever they can to get out of there and that they will eventually come back when the shameless party that rules there has already left. That’s my advice. Because life in it.” Land, it’s fatal. The other advice I could give them is to fight for something else, but they’ve already tried and nothing. I’m not asking the people to rise up because the people don’t have guns but the government does,” he said. .