| 16/02/2021 – 09:05 (GMT-4)
The popular television presenter of Cuban origin, Fernando Hidalgo, died in Miami at dawn on Tuesday due to COVID-19-derived pneumonia, as confirmed on social media by his wife, Nereida Dellan.
“Fernando Hidalgo has lost his battle. He is in God’s hands. Thank you for your prayers. Thank you for your support. Thank you to the people who have always supported him,” Dellan wrote on Facebook, where he had prayed for him in recent days. recovery from her husband.
The actor, the producer, the writer – who was also known as “Lovely star”– has developed a successful career in television over several decades, where he has produced more than a dozen programs.
He is best known in South Florida and several US cities for the Fernando Hidalgo Show., which has been broadcast for more than a decade on Channel 41, since America TeVé, a channel where he also dealt with Los casados feliz.
Hidalgo left Cuba with his parents in the early 1960s in Chicago, where he gradually developed into a recognized figure on local Hispanic radio.
He later settled in Puerto Rico, where he established a vast artistic career as a broadcaster, television presenter and actor.
In the 1970s he returned to the United States and worked in Hollywood with John Wayne and Rock Hudson. However, Hidalgo would return to Puerto Rico to become a television producer.
Then he lived for a while in Venezuela, where in the early 80’s he starred in the humorous television series How to be happy in marriage, which was distributed in twenty Latin American countries and also acquired an important Spanish-speaking channel in the USA.
In parallel with his television career, Fernando Hidalgo studied Metaphysics in a self-taught way, in the 70’s and even went so far as to open an office where for five years he dealt with sentimental issues and self-esteem.
Hidalgo is the author of the motivational book Survivor of hell (Alexandra Library Inc.), with a strong autobiographical charge and in which he questions the prejudices inculcated by traditional religions.
Despite leaving Cuba as a child, Hidalgo talked frequently about his childhood on the island. He always said that he had a poor childhood and “full of curiosity about everything around him.”
“He was an extremely poor child. My father earned a small salary as a soldier, and that small amount of money was the only food for the family. I lived in a lot of eight rooms or rooms and in each of these rooms lived a different family, although we all had a shared bathroom. I remember that for the toilet paper I had pieces of old newspapers and magazines, which hung from a nail on the wall. At present, in Cuba, the use of newspapers for these purposes has become so widespread that it no longer attracts attention, but in my childhood, in those days, the toilet paper was a sign of poverty, “he confessed in his book. Survivor of hell.
“Behind every adversity is the seed of opportunity”, was one of the slogans that Hidalgo repeated most insistently, whose departure was deeply felt by Cuban artists who helped him establish himself several times in the artistic universe of Miami.
In mid-January, she gave one of her last television interviews for Univista, in which she spoke about a future work project related to Cuba, the freedom of which she had always dreamed of.
“The phone woke me up with the sad news of Fernando Hidalgo’s death. My condolences to the children of his family,” Cuban presenter José “Carlucho” wrote on Instagram on Tuesday, one of the people who always appreciated the opportunity he received. Hidalgo to move forward.
“Until the end of the operation. This was his last advertisement produced by Univistatv. Full of dreams and the illusion of one day returning to Cuba without a dictatorship. I think that many of us today should say” Thank you Fernando “. be at peace “, wrote Carlucho in a second post.
“Sad news, great news has left us! Fernando Hidalgo died due to complications in Covid. Our condolences to his family and friends. The Fernando Hidalgo show was for many years the best they had at 7 at night in Miami, insurmountable and unrepeatable, there I took my first steps on TV! DEP Fernando !! “, they wrote in their turn The Pichy Boys.
The Cuban comedian also reacted with regret to the death of Fernando Hidalgo Boncó Quiñongo.