Farewell to Lucho Aguirre: Family, friends and colleagues from the artistic environment bid farewell to the deceased actor who “fertilized all generations”

“Fly high my love, fly high”, with these words Mrs. Mary Claire Riera said goodbye to her husband Luis Aguirre, a famous Ecuadorian actor and director of theater and television who died at the age of 64 this Friday, July 21 morning, after losing the battle against acute myeloid leukemia, a type of cancer that had invaded his blood for the last year.

The interpreter, better known as Lucho, received a Christian burial this Saturday, July 22 in the morning. Very precisely, at 9:30 in the morning, a mass was celebrated with the body present and the casket open in one of the wake rooms of the Parque de la Paz, located in La Alborada.

There were relatives, the actor’s closest friends, but also his colleagues from the artistic environment, such as Marina Salvarezza, Jorge Toledo, Alejandra Paredes, Renata Salem, Maricela Gómez, Fabiola Véliz, Iñaki Moreno, Pamela Sambrano. They were then followed by actors Isidro Murillo, Augusto Enríquez, Miriam Murillo, Marcelo Gálvez, Jaime Tamariz, among others, when his body was transferred to the cemetery in La Aurora, where it rests in one of its vaults.

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Deeply moved, those present did not hide their tears for the loss of the beloved actor who participated in numerous television series, including company 593, trinity, 3 Families, yellow combination and rosita taxi driver (Ecuavisa), and he was also the director of the children’s program Shorts corneron the same channel, in 1993. On SíTV, he directed a show for children, apple 12 (1995), as well as the comic series PPG (1998).

But they also shared cheers and applause that echoed in the grave silence of the cemetery, in his honor, especially when his eldest son, Luis Alberto, He took the floor. The oldest of the men, who accompanied him during his hospital stays, recalled that his father asked him for forgiveness in his last days, but he confirmed that he had nothing to hold a grudge against or forgive.

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“For us, it’s a loss, more than a friend, a family member,” Augusto Enríquez, actor and director of the theater group Kurombos, commented very sadly. Both of them met at their theater beginnings, when in 1977 they founded the group El Juglar. “We shared the 15 years that the group lasted, the 15 years that we lived together almost as brothers, as a family.”

Enríquez believes that Lucho Aguirre leaves a great legacy of “creativity, perseverance, constant struggle for what was the work of theater, television, film and teaching. He was an outstanding actor not only on stage, but also in production and as a creator of new generations of actors.”

Actor and director Jaime Tamariz also highlights Aguirre’s career as a value that the public should never forget. “He is a part of the history of theater in our area, with his tireless work all these years he fertilized many generations and we all came to work with him at one time or another. May his memory not be lost, may all new artists know who Lucho Aguirre is.”