The Cuban actress Miriam Socarrás, 85 years old, revealed that she has not seen her only son in eight years and has yet to meet her twin granddaughters in person, during an interview published on Thursday by the YouTube channel Cubamastv.
The confession took place during the podcast Todos Hablan, hosted by actor Jorge Martínez, when he asked if she harbored any sadness in her heart. "I don't know my granddaughters, I haven't seen my son in eight years, the only son I have," Socarrás replied with evident emotion.
"That's something very painful," she emphasized.
His son, Mauricio Posada Socarrás, 54 years old, lives in Miami and is the father of seven-year-old twin girls.
The artist explained that Mauricio does not travel to Cuba for health reasons: the girls were very fragile during their early years, and he fears exposing them to viruses and the sanitary conditions on the Island.
Socarrás mentioned that a possible solution would be to meet in the Dominican Republic, as many Cuban families separated by emigration do, but that his son is not enthusiastic about that option.
"The distance," he said, "is a wound that never heals. 'I don't know my granddaughters; it's nice to see them on the Internet, but it's not the same. To feel them, to touch them, to smell them,’ he expressed."
And she revealed what she tells her son when they talk: "I want to feel your scent, to touch you, to laugh with you, to do what empowers me. That's something so important for mothers."
Despite the pain, Socarrás dismissed the idea of emigrating, as many people have suggested to him. "Why would I leave Cuba if I was born here?" He acknowledged that he has been offered the opportunity to stay in Mexico and Spain, but he reaffirmed his connection to his homeland.
In Havana, she lives with her 38-year-old grandson, whom she calls "my sun that lights up my life," and maintains an active schedule: she hosts the television magazine "Ruta 10" on Cubavisión and has just finished filming a telenovela.
The interview also captured his sorrow over the deterioration of Old Havana, where he was born on Lamparilla Street. He described streets with sewage, accumulated garbage, and worms on the walls. "There's sewage and trash that have been there for many months. I can't bear to see that because it hurts me; it makes me want to cry," he stated.
Socarrás, who celebrated her 85th birthday last April surrounded by colleagues from the Cuban artistic community, is one of the most beloved figures in the island's cinema and television, with a filmography that includes more than 20 films from the ICAIC and 16 years as a presenter for the Cabaret Tropicana.
In 2025, he participated in the Brazilian film "O último azul," directed by Gabriel Mascaro, which won the Grand Jury Prize at that year's Berlinale.
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