Help needed for an artist and culture spreader
HELP NEEDED FOR AN ARTIST AND CULTURE SPREADER
My older cousin Cesar Aguilera has been strugling lately with a terrible reality. His partner in life was diagnosed with an illness and they don't have the resources to even cover the first medical exams. Cesar has been a profesional of the arts, acting, folk dance, puppets, makeup, directing theater plays and the first memory I have from him is that he knew and has survival skills in the wild, been a boy scout early in his life he was able to do zip lines and great adventures in the mountain for us kids and grown up too.
My cousin does have an incredible talent as a makeup artist, doing complete transformations for characters in theater plays. The first theater play I assisted as a child was one of his, written, directed and acted by him. The arts never payed out what he deserved and less in the actual state of the country in which you eat once a day if you find something, no regular job covers the infinite expansion of the economic inflation and everything is priced with skyrocket numbers.
This picture of him with the puppets was taken by the same time I had an adventure with him when I was like 6 years old, he took me to a little coast town where he was going to prepare and make a puppet show for town's children. Mean while he was preparing the puppets I was able to be in the beach playing, then the big moment came and the puppet show was just amazing. Is one of my favorite memories from my childhood.
Is so sad to see how all the things you build around you and make you happy are destroyed by the decisions of a criminal entity in charge of the power in that country that once was prosper, not perfect but liveable, with better quality life than the ways all is reduced today. Still a third world country with everything it imply and in the situation now maybe fourth, if that can be possible.
On the previous pictures you can see them with the dancing students crew and teaching communities about general culture.
My cousin's couple needs to do an endoanal ultrasound to determine if he can be saved or if it's too late. Simply as that, a tumour is blocking his bladder and is in a lot of pain and impossibility to go to the badroom normally, now under treatment he can but is waiting for my cousin to have the money to move forward. I know that this is only the beginning because after this exam other treatments and medical appointments will be required, but if we can make our part, the people that has done so much for culture their entire life will be better.
It's shame that people in Venezuela can't be able to pay for exams like this because all the money you get in there goes to finding and buy food. You may ask how the people that dedicates their life to culture got so far from wealth and the answer is that government cutted resources and even worse if you aren't communist like them, that's why they are left behind with no medical insurance, no income and no recognition for their career into the culture of the country.