¿How many times I saw him through the streets of the city? Retracing it with his lanky figure, his mystery. The corners are made at the step in his sandals. The walls have to keep the echo of his words.
-James Apostle ... I salute you, my voice steepening.
The actor, who does not carry the layer, which does not carry the sword, walking simple people, gives me a smile, a gesture of yours. I can say anything, has the occurrence to flower; but today will not be.

It is  a legend. Its simplicity moves. He was born in this heat, on March 9, 1940, and since then, has not been dropped from the tables.
A long parade of universal and vernacular theater, accompanies him: El Guanajo and El Macho, Yeppetto, Juan Jaragán, Tartufo. He paid tribute to the Festival in Camagüey, surrendered to Cuba with two old panics Virgilio Pinera, under the direction of unforgettable Ramiro Herrero. Nancy was Tota. Dagoberto naturally Tabo. That two characters swallowed by fear!
He went to Mexico, the Cervantino Festival. In Venezuela, to do the usual: light the spark in the neighborhoods. He got a big horse in the skin of Don Quixote and went to the Festival of Almagro. He went to Cadiz.
The soothsayer in the legendary band The first machete (Manuel Octavio Gómez, 1969). I remember before the stones of the river, trying to guess the future, as the guide to the Maceo in Baraguá (José Massip, 1986).
Play the generalism in the audiovisual Seeking Maximo Gomez (Carlos Padron, 1986), it meant an extra challenge. He should give his body to dwell irreducible warrior and father racked with pain at the death of the child. He demanded, even a wart removed from his face. He demanded much. The work earned for its protagonists, a decoration of the State Council.
Candidate for the National Theatre Award twice (2005 and 2006), many already gave the award others to skimp. And when some collect, at the dawn of the new millennium, he formed with his wife, Nancy Campos, group A both hands.
However, nothing to with the Patron Saint of Santiago de Cuba which incorporated one day replacing Hector Echemendía. One day and forever. The work of Raul Pomares, Como St. James put his feet on the ground.

A special St. James, who became holy warrior in Mambi. The rebel hat, as wanted of Santiago, whose sculpture treasures the Emilio Bacardi Museum.
The small camera in colors that debuted in 1982, Tele Rebelde channel, immortalized the staging. In the Castillo del Morro, at the gates of Santiago Bay. The Apostle gets off the horse. He is speaking of shame. And he goes with his people, his city.
Dagoberto Gainza opens the celebration of July, the Patron Saint paraded every carnival. White face. Apostle's sword, curved like the seas, like mountains curve.
There is something haunting, perpetual vigil, when it happens.