Cuban actor Carlos Massola: “Someday this dictatorship will fall”

Shocked after watching the movie Planted, inspired by the story of the women who suffered imprisonment for opposing the regime of Fidel Castro, the Cuban actor Carlos Massola He stated that one day the Cuban dictatorship “will fall”.

In statements to the newspaper CubaNet, Massola said that the film by director Lilo Vilaplana, which he saw clandestinely in Havana, touched her heart “deeply” due to the harshness of the events it recounts and “how much those patriots suffered,” who fought against the Castro regime from its beginnings.

“Very hard, very sad,” he stated, and confessed that it “brought tears to his eyes,” but also “the spirit of patriotism that this town has hidden, but that it has.”

“Someday this dictatorship is going to fall, it has to fall,” he said.

The popular artist said that all Cubans should see the movie Planted. Both the Cuban youth of today, who need to know what happened in the initial decades of the Castro regime in Cuba, and the generation that ignored what was happening at that time, so that they can see the reality as it was, "not what they taught us, the one they lied to us.”

He recalled an event from his childhood, when he was in 6th grade, his teacher - named Jesús - suddenly disappeared from school, and then they learned that he had been arrested.

“What hurts me the most is that the same thing is currently happening with all those political prisoners.” in the country, he stated, and assured that whoever sees the film “will have an idea of what political prisoners are going through now”.

He considered that the film was very necessary, “not only to show the past suffering of those patriots who are now elderly, but also to give people a glimpse of what our current political prisoners are going through.”

Massola considered that Cuban actors need to “wake up”, because “they are walking on a non-existent red carpet,” and questioned the programs broadcast by Cuban television, which do not present the reality of the country.

The actor predicted that the day a series is made in Cuba about Cuban political prisoners and their families, “you will see what kind of series they are going to make, what kind of novel or serial, that is what people in Cuba need to see.” . I think they should put their feet on the ground and think: my duty now is to report so that this country changes.”.

Due to their constant criticism about the reality of the country and strong denunciations against the regime, Massola has been censored and relegated, even by his cousin, the popular presenter and actress Edith Massola.

In his interview with CubaNet, lamented that he probably will not be able to work on Cuban television again because it is “such an exclusivist society.” “There is a very big censorship here in culture and on television, they make you believe that it doesn't, but it does exist. Right now I'm a sucker”, he stressed.

“If you do not have a procedure in accordance with the communist system, you have no place, even if you are a good actor., or even if a director wants to use you,” he stressed, and revealed that a director friend wanted to call him for a job, and he confessed that he couldn't even mention his name.

“That is hard, it hurts, because I have a tremendous desire to work,” he confessed, although not for the money they pay, he said, which is a “misery,” but for the possibility of working, “to feel that I am doing what I want to do.” I like it".

Massola sent a message to the political prisoners and their families: "My heart goes out to them, and I will continue to ask and raise my voice for their freedom, because they did what others have not had the courage to do."