“I don’t believe people who say they are apolitical, because that is simply impossible, and although I don’t really like to use clichés, it may seem reactionary to say that. If an issue needs to be reasserted in the profession, I will be there.” made the statement Concha Velasco to the newspaper Pioneer He was born in Valladolid in 1982 and grew up in Larache, an African city where his military father, Franco’s assistant, was posted, Concha Velasco He was one of the undisputed stars of the dictatorship. The actor was a regular at the La Granja festivals held to entertain Carmen Polo in the early 70s. Change your political stance. “It would have been the worst thing if I hadn’t evolved. And so I evolved. Wow, I evolved too!” he declared in an interview. Pioneer In 2015.
While performing at the Lara Theater in Madrid in January 1972 arrival of the gods The company responded to Antonio Buero Vallejo, Juan Diego and Concha Velasco’s request for one day off per week. couple’s dismissal. As writer Emeterio Díaz Puertas explains, labor conflict was coming from behind. The 1971 players’ guild elections were rife with irregularities. Among these, corruption in vote countingActors who were businessmen would be allowed to vote out or veto actors such as Juan Diego, who was secretly operating in the Communist Party, to run for office, which caused the results to fall in favor of representatives affiliated with the Communist Party. The party regime was the most moderate in labor demands.
To all this, we had to add that the government did not allow the actors, who were divided between theatre, cinema, dubbing and television artists, to gather in a single union organization. employers’ refusal to provide certain benefitsLike that long-awaited weeklong break, where there’s only one show a day and rehearsals are paid.
Faced with such a work scenario, the dismissal of Concha Velasco and Juan Diego was the final straw. From then on, the players decided. Organizing outside the National Entertainment Association Led by Jaime Campmany, they conveyed their demands to businessmen in 1974. When these were not intervened, the group went on strike for nine days in February 1975, provoking a reaction from the Francoist authorities; There were even those who were arrested and imprisoned, among others. Aurora Bautista, Enriqueta Carballeira, Tina Sainz, Peter Mari Sánchez And rocio durcal If he didn’t go to jail it’s only because Lola Flores He went to the General Directorate of Security to mediate and release him.
A few months later, in March 1976, it would be Concha Velasco himself, this time interceding for another friend. Lola GaosPerson arrested for attending a meeting of Lever Ibérica workers. Even though the dictator had been dead for several months, when she and Germán Cobos went to the DGS to find out the situation of the veteran actress, they were kicked out of the police station without getting any information or reaching them. talk to your partner.
Concha Velasco’s political activities would continue in June of the same year with participation in a festival held at the Palace Theater of Alcalá. to support new dairy products -a newspaper that faced closure due to property debts, leaving 300 families on the streets, and in November 1976, more than 500 professionals signed a letter demanding changes to the RTVE program, demanding “cultural and ideological colonization from countries such as the United States and the Spanish” It demands that its own production be increased to support the film and television industry.
Likewise, Velasco was one of those responsible for signing the letter signed by more than 600 personalities, including the following, and delivering it to the Presidency of the Government. Juan Antonio Bardem, Ana Belen, Basil Martin I slide And Adolfo MarsillachAction demanding “an end to the excesses” that occurred in January 1977 and included the kidnapping of Lieutenant Colonel Eugenio Villaescusa, the death of two students in several demonstrations, and the murder of five labor lawyers in their office in Atocha Street, all within a week.
You can be everything at once
“Although I don’t think I’m the best person to talk in depth about such an important topic, I’ll say yes, I’ve read it and I think it’s good. I think this protects and defends all of us Hispanics. And of course I will vote yes. I don’t want to force anyone on this issue. Everyone is free to vote for whoever they want, but that’s fine with me,” Concha Velasco told the program. weekly reportA few days before the referendum celebration Constitution Dated December 6, 1978.
A convinced democrat, from that moment on he was not going to hide his sympathy for the socialist party.a closeness that unites him with himself catholic faith because her mother did that too, and she said she was “smart, a republican, a writer, and a religious person because you can be everything at the same time.” This socialist militancy player participated in various election campaigns. For example, in 1996, PSOE was not experiencing its best moments due to corruption scandals and GAL. defend joyThe protest in which they participated in support of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Joaquin Sabina, Boris Izaguirre, Mother Belen, winner Manual, Loneliness Gimenez anyone Fran Perea. Although he later showed his disappointment with Zapatero’s second government, the actor bounced back. correct the illusion in the socialist party with the advent Pedro Sánchez, whom he supported at a rally in 2020.
But in recent years Velasco lived bitter debates about politics these are amplified by social networks. For example, in a television interview in 2014, he said, “We can do it, it was necessary. It gives hope. There are many young people, they opened the door to fresh air,” or last July, he said: Isabel Díaz received a surprise visit from Ayuso at the home where she was received. The President of the Community of Madrid, who was cornered for managing nursing homes that caused the deaths of more than 7,000 people, took a photo with the player and did not hesitate to publish it on social networks, causing the anger of many. users accused her of using the artist to whitewash her terrible image.