Telenovela actor "Entrega" leaves Cuba: "Young people are leaving because they can't stand that system"

The Cuban actor Pedrito Martínez, remembered forhis participation in the soap operaDelivery and in the television seriesFight against bandits, left his country in search of a better life.

Born in Pinar del Río, the young man resides in San Antonio, Texas, although he has been able to be in 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 did several works with the theater group El Público, directed by Carlos Díaz, and acted in the filmVicenta B., by Carlos Lechuga, in which he played the protagonist's son.

In an interview with the portalyucabyte, regretted that the regime's censorship has prevented the exhibition of this film in Cuba, something he describes as "lack of respect."

"Cuba has always seemed to me to be a quite censorious country with respect to art and with respect to the criteria of creators. If you defend Cuba fromthe same way 'they' think it should be defended, everything is fine; But if a creator dares to tell the truth about what is happening, he or she can be censored," he said.

"Censoring a work of art is a great lack of respect, and even more so when said work is narrating reality. Cuba is an old island. Young people are leaving because they cannot stand that system. So, it seems ugly to me that a work is censored that speaks about the pain that Cuba is going through right now; the pain of mothers, grandmothers, fathers, suffering the departure of their children," he stressed.

Martínez arrived in the United States following 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 about the fact that for whatever reason they take away your internet, that there is no food anywhere, that they censor your own work after they have already been approved (...) Cuba has too many defects," he said.

The young actor is the first member of his family to leave, and now he is happy to be able to help them in a place where there are more opportunities.

"I left because Cuba was no longer enough for me. 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 is my land, but... they are forcing us to do it: the police, the presidents, the laws and the scarcity of everything, from common sense to food," he stressed.

"Knowing that there is no transportation, that there is no food, that they turn off your power whenever they want, that they turn off the internet, that all the time you are living on the edge. That is what I miss the least about Cuba, the fact of living on the edge and to be surviving all the time. I don't like to survive. I like to live," he added.

Pedrito was one of the thousands of Cubans who took to the streets to protest on July 11, 2021. From that day, he remembers with pain seeing the police beating the people. "Cubans hitting each other," he said.

"My message to the Cubans on the island is that they do everything possible to leave there, and that they return at some point when the party of impudence that is governing there has already left. That is my advice. Because life in that country it is fatal. The other advice I could give them is to fight for something different, but it has already been tried and nothing. I am not asking the people to revolt, because the people do not have weapons and the government does," he said. .