‘Pompinchú’ wants to return to television and points out that authorities close amphitheaters and charge for using them – INTERVIEW

The beloved ‘Pompinchú’, played by Alonso Gonzalez Mendoza, told us details about his difficulty walking. Likewise, he mentioned that there are inconveniences for him to be able to dedicate himself to what he loves most, comedy, because the authorities have closed some amphitheaters in Chabuca Granda because now they are dedicated to charging in those spaces.

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In an interview for El Popular, ‘Pompinchu‘ lets us know that, due to his health problem, he is dedicated to selling sweets in the Central Market and, another of his livelihood is that he makes personalized greetings through his social networks. In addition, he is roundly grateful for the affection that people have for him and his yellow character.

When that stage on TV ended, some returned to the streets and there were others who lived off the fame they managed to obtain, what did you do after there was no more program?

I left the channel in 2001 and I had an accident. I break my leg and I was at home resting for about a year. I was absent, I was waiting until they operated on my leg, they did surgical platinum and everything. So, I was resting and little by little I made movements like stepping slowly until I came out again.

But you spend your money that you have saved because I didn’t work during that year and again I went back to doing shows in neighborhoods, circuses and also with other comedians who did their shows in the streets. But what happened was that my legs were bad, I couldn’t step well and more years went by and I fell. I fractured my hip and that’s where it looked bad, I’ve been walking like this for about 7 or 8 years (difficulty) because they didn’t want to operate on me.

I entered the insurance working in a Municipality to have an operation, they did all the preoperative tests, but they never operated on me, they took me for a walk. I complained and it was the same, they didn’t do anything to me and I just stayed like that. And what I need is a prosthesis, but for that they have to do an operation to remove the screws and plates that they put in me, so they have to do two operations that are a bit complicated because my bones are weak, everything that’s complicated. I know that my feet can break, but I stayed like this, with my walker just walking.

You just mentioned to me that you went to work in a municipality so that you can have insurance and have surgery, but behind it there is something else, do you consider that there is abandonment by the authorities towards those who are part of Peruvian popular culture?

There is a lot of abandonment. For example, the Municipality today wants to charge for using the amphitheater. The university park was closed because they wanted to charge where we worked with the comedians, but I withdrew from that. In addition, they gave you buts; then, there are so many parks to work, but they don’t stop.

There is an empty amphitheater that is hardly used and people sometimes need to de-stress or find a place to have fun. Nowadays in Chabuca (Alameda) there are also amphitheaters and many of them are unoccupied, they don’t use them and some colleagues don’t know how they do it because there are up to 30 and there is no way to expand because the authorities do not allow it, so, Why do they build parks or amphitheaters if they are going to have them abandoned? What is grace? That’s my opinion.

And the people who remember you, who appreciate and support you, have asked you to return to the screens? Would you like to return to television?

I would very much like to return to television, but you know what my reason is that suddenly they don’t call me, it’s because I get around with a walker, that’s why suddenly they don’t even call me, I imagine. If I were healthy, I would suddenly be working on a channel or somewhere in a show because I have a lot of ability.

For example, today, thank God, they tell me ‘Hey sir, do you host children’s parties or birthdays?’ I tell them children’s parties no, birthdays yes, but as you can see I’m on crutches. And they answer me ‘Yes, we already know, it doesn’t matter, come’. And so they take me to cheer up birthdays, festivals and I go. Since I work standing up, I put aside the crutches and I do my show, people leave happy, I have fun, they have fun and I even make jokes about the crutches or what I wear to walk. Sometimes people don’t know what it’s for or why I bring this, but I transform those little things into humor.

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Pompinchú claims to be unaware of the inconveniences among the comedians of the Alameda Chabuca Granda

Now that we are dealing with the issue of the media, in recent days some news has come to light regarding the comedians of Chabuca Granda about beatings and threats against each other, what is your opinion on the matter?

I can’t say anything about it for the reason that I don’t work with them, I don’t know what their reasons are. Since they are an association, then, they will have something in their clauses and it must have happened, but I cannot give an opinion because, as I repeat, I do not work with them.

Sometimes when I go with my chocolates, but I don’t go to the amphitheater so that they suddenly give me time, but since there are many who work there, they won’t even have time to enter, that’s why I don’t know anything about it.

Do you think there is currently a distance between comedians?

Sometimes we meet and greet each other, normal, but they are working for their children, for them and some people who are on television also work there doing their show and they do it as they see it, as the best is the best.

Source-elpopular.pe