I have wondered whether to tell this story or not. I originally thought I would wait for the transcript of the Alo President from a weak ago to come on line, but so many plans for posts just die into the oblivion of being too busy or something more important happening.
I could have titled this post: “When Popi the clown discovered Chavez”. You see, Popi the Clown is an almost mythical figure to many Venezuelans, not too old, not too young. He was the clown that entertained generations of Venezuelans. As I said, almost mythical.
Well, on January 27th. when Chavez was giving his Sunday Alo Presidente, he was talking about how much he liked to talk and entertain and then he told us how Popi had discovered him. It went something like within the bounds of my limited memory, the order may be wrong, but the jist is the same ( I was told today he has mentioned this other times):
“I was at the Military Academy, I may have been a Captain then, one day I was told to greet Popi and organize his visit, all the female Popi’s were dancing an entertaining and then they talked to me on camera and they liked it so much that they showed it on National TV. And I became famous. All the kids on my barrio would tell me: “you are the one that goes around with Popi” and I liked that, television, the media, I became a radio announcer”
I am not kidding. He said that. But you have to wonder, where is the video? Second, what barrio is he talking about? Once he was a Captain, he had no “barrio”, he lived at the military headquarters and Barinas was not a place he visited too frequently.
Thus, Popi may have discovered Hugo Chavez, I guess it takes on to know one.
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