Oscar Martínez expressed his opinion on the current situation in Argentina: “We have arrived at a very sad point of decline.”

After explaining the reasons why he decided to settle in Spain three and a half years ago, Oscar Martinez (74) spoke again about the current situation in Argentina. The actor He lamented the country’s context and attacked the political leadership.

Oscar traveled from Spain to Buenos Aires to promote his new series, Fine Arts, made in Madrid. As a guest at the table Mirtha’s night (El Trece), the host asked her about her vision of Argentina, after several artists such as Guillermo Francella, Érica Rivas and Carlos Belloso, among others, came out to comment on the government of Javier Milei.

“It makes me very sad. I’m not as aware of everything that happens as I was when I was here. Because that was one of the reasons I left. “She lifted me up,” Oscar began to explain.

Then, Mirtha persisted with her question to investigate: “There are things that alarm me and that embitter me. Repression is terrible and it’s ugly. “It is unfortunate that Argentina has reached that level of violence.”

“Argentina has been going from bad to worse for many decades. I grew up in a country that had single-digit poverty, which was also decent, and which was neither marginality nor destitution. Unfortunately today we have almost 60% poverty and there are millions of children who don’t eat. It’s very difficult for me to talk about it because it moves me and It seems a shame to me that in a country like Argentina there are creatures that will remain malnourished.. “It’s something inconceivable,” the actor complained.

He then went over a series of qualities in which Argentina has worsened as time has passed: “It has been a process. There was upward social mobility, it had world-class public education, it had equal public health, and it had a very high average cultural level. We lost all of this and it’s as if we weren’t aware that we were losing it.”

“We’ve gotten to this point, which is a very sad decline.”. What I don’t like, what I didn’t like before and I don’t like now, is this the complaint is used by the highest positions of power, bellicosity is encouraged, denigrated, insulted. Comparison and fragmentation are encouraged. There is fanaticism on both sides,” he continued, anguished.

“I observe it with enormous sadness and with the conviction that this is the final blow, it is the blow to the back of the head, let’s say. This will destroy us completely. I say the Argentina is a ship that has been on the list for quite some timethat water comes in from all sides, and we are all on that boat,” said the actor.

Then, he commented on the criticism of artists who speak against or for different governments: “Instead of dealing with this, we are killing each other. So I want to live in a country where everyone has the right to say what they want to say and what they think. I notice that this also happens on a more horizontal level. Political culture imposed it. Today an actor makes a statement and they want to kill him “When that statement suddenly doesn’t make sense, it’s no disrespect to anyone.”

“I could be wrong, perfect. But this game of going to kill him, that anyone who doesn’t think like me is my enemy, is the enemy of the nation, the enemy of the homeland, the enemy of the people and goes beyond the ideological sign.”

On the other hand, he took the opportunity to criticize politicians: “Reviewing the political leadership, both those who are in office, in the Chamber of Deputies, in the Senators, also in the Executive, in the leadership of the parties, they are people who have the state we have had for 40 years of democracy.”

“They’ve always been there and everyone talks as if they never had anything to do with it. and as if they had the solution to the problems that they themselves, in many cases, have generated. Of course there is also a society in which we chose what we had. So it’s time for all of us to lower the decibels, lower the arrogance, let’s reduce fanaticism, because it is imperative to find solutions. “It’s urgent,” she concluded.

Mirtha Legrand asked Oscar Martínez if he earns well in Spain

After explaining his vision of Argentina and the reasons why he decided to settle in Europe, Oscar Martínez had to answer a frank question from Mirtha: “Are the salaries there in Spain similar to ours?”

“I don’t know how much they pay here because I haven’t worked for a long time. It depends there, like everywhere else. Ours is a very irregular profession. There are those who earn a lot. Not all artists earn the same, but Normally the series pay very well“, replied the actor.

Then the driver wanted to know if the Spaniards had recognized him on the street. “Little by little, yes. There are people who already knew me because there were very successful films, Wild tales, Illustrious citizen, Knock Knock, which I did there with Spanish actors and actresses, is the one that was seen the most because it is very popular. Now I have two series on the most watched platform,” Martínez responded.

Regarding Spain’s opinion of Argentina, Oscar said: “For them, Argentina is what it was, a very rich country. It hurts me to be gone, If this was the country I grew up in, I wouldn’t have left.. There they ask you ‘how is it possible that Argentina is the way it is?’. They can’t believe it. “It’s hard to explain, it would take a week’s monologue.”