2024-07-16 04:31:55
The fifth episode of the podcast “Por mis Tacones”, hosted by Cuban actress and comedian Zajaris Fernández, featured Alex Otaola as a guest.
The Miami-Dade mayoral candidate spoke about his campaign and how he transitioned from influencer to political life.
The conversation aired on Monday from the Los Pichy Boys platform, and the host introduced him as the future mayor of this County.
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Zajaris applauded Alex’s persistence in the digital world and his insistence that everyone who could should jump into cyberspace, and not settle for traditional means.
Otaola recalled that his sense of humor came from his sexual orientation and the bullying he received in Cuba. He used this resource as protection and escape from the machismo and aggression he was subjected to on the Island.
“The shield I found was humor, the way I became the center of the party (…) but the guy people wanted to be around because he had fun,” said.
He said that it was precisely humor that “pulled” him into politics and that the path “went awry,” because there is nothing more serious than politics.
Here he reiterated that it was the people who led him to that path and he committed himself to the cause of a free Cuba and the denunciations through his program. Hello! Ota-Ola.
“It was the demand of the people themselves, and being consistent with what you are saying. There are many people who talk, but they have a different discourse”he confessed.
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Of “the pyroflautics of gossip”According to Zajaris, Alex Otaola became a political activist who, with a message far from teque, reached the Cuban audience, inside and outside the Island.
“You tell me in 2016 that I am going to be a candidate for mayor County And I tell you: it’s a lie, this is absurd. Politics was not part of my life.”he declared.
The people’s demands and the poor performance of politicians, he said, are what have led him to stop asking and start acting.
Zajaris’ podcast included jokes and references to Alex Otaola’s past in Cuba, with mention of two anecdotes.
One of them was when he “rallied” with a group of colleagues to give a television to Estela, a lady from Radio Progreso who lived in miserable conditions.
The other, somewhat humorous, was when Alex tried to buy seafood in Santa Cruz del Sur, a municipality in his native province of Camagüey. Zajaris asked him to tell this story at the end of the talk.
Otaola denounced that some people have tried to discredit his message and degrade him in the eyes of the people.
“They have tried to steal my audience, And that is what they have not achieved because I have a consistent projection And I decided to change my life based on being consistent with what I am saying. Not everyone has that courage.”
At the end of the conversation, Zajaris assured him that Alex would like to be on the ticket with Donald Trump in November, but what if he wins in August?
“The vote will be divided, because there are some candidates who want to steal my vote. I am sure that Levine (Daniella Levine Cava) and I will be the winner, so in November I will kick her politically.”he said.
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“If I win in August….”, said Alex, and Zajaris completed the sentence: “audit in September!”. The host of the Anticommunist Ranch stressed that “This part of the podcast is going to make you very nervous”.
The “audit” is because the candidate has stated that, if he wins the mayoralty, he would expel the communists from Miami and clean up all ties with dictatorships in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, a promise that makes the obesecracy of Havana tremble.
Cubans Around the World Editorial Team