Cuban journalist and actress Alondra Santiago recorded a video in which she congratulated herself on her 18 years in Ecuador. In a video on Instagram addressed to herself, she recalled arriving at the Guayaquil airport at the age of 13. “They took me in a car with the windows down and they took me all the way down Machala (street) to the south. And that’s where my journey in Ecuador began”.

Santiago, what He recognizes himself as a person of the left, but appreciates Ecuador’s freedom to communicate freely, In a recent video posted on her social networks, she thanks the Ecuadorians who received her well and made her feel at home, but in an interview with El Universo she admits that she has received hostile comments, “The ugliest thing is when they tell me they are going to my country, I am nobody here”.

The communicator accompanied his speech with clips from his travels through different regions of Ecuador, explaining that in his youth he found a new way of life here and this caused a myriad of emotions in him that one day he had to take him to psychological counseling. – They made me the way I am now.

“I just can’t ask for more; That would be very selfish of me. For 18 years, this country has made me its own, and I have only words thank you to the good men and women who welcomed me and they give me their love, I thank them eternally. You are the best in Ecuador”. wrote.

He admitted that he occasionally considered leaving, faced with criticism for his opinions or decisions. “I wonder what I’m doing here. I have done so many things here, I have given voice to so many people, I have written about Ecuador. Then I say: But this is my country”.

Alondra Santiago is processing her Ecuadorian citizenship. His brother and mother already are. “I’m the only one left”. (AND)