José Ignacio Cabrujas: Master of irony who portrayed the essence of a country (+birth)
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Published at: 17/07/2024 08:00 AM
On July 17, 1937, in the bowels of the Caracas Valley, in populous Catia, the writer and playwright, José Ignacio Cabrujas, was born, who would stand out for his unparalleled ability to, between humor and irony, unravel the essence of rentist Venezuela that was torn between the image of a prosperous country for a minority and immense poverty for a large majority.
“I think that the country changed radically and it was a sustained change that has not come to light”, were the words of Cabrujas during an interview on April 24, 1992 after being consulted about the effects of the Military Rebellion of February 4 of that year, words that became a harbinger of what later happened in Venezuela with the arrival of the Bolivarian Revolution and the end of the Adeco-Copeyan system of that fourth republic, which, with its sharp verb, he denounced for his systematic policy of violation of human rights and for sentencing millions of Venezuelans to death, who succumbed to hunger and misery.
His work includes soap operas, theater and some very important writings, which are counted in 23 plays, 18 screenplays for movies, nearly 400 chronicles, as well as some television miniseries, which received great sympathy from Venezuelans.
This boy from the neighborhood of Catia, who fell in love with literature when he read “Les Miserables” by Victor Hugo, died on October 21, 1995, but his contradictory verb, ironic and unparalleled humor, continues to resonate in the mouths of that town that today celebrates the birth of this giant of Hispanic letters.
Mazo News Team