Facundo Correcto has been living in Miami for a year

November 14, 2020

Next November 27th, Andy Vázquez will celebrate his first year of living in Miami. That was the day the comedian, known as "Facundo" for his most popular character on the Cuban television program Vivir del cuento, arrived in Miami to stay.

Practically a few hours after being expelled from Cuban television for making a parody about the opening of the Cuatro Caminos market in Havana, Vázquez got on a plane, taking advantage of having a five-year visa, and left for the United States.

"Since I set foot in this country for the first time I dreamed of living here," Vázquez recalled, who before that day had been in the Sunshine City several times with his colleagues from Vivir del cuento.

When he made this decision, he left behind his wife and a three-month-old baby.

His life in Miami he describes as "a jump from the first floor to the 130th floor." From the beginning he works on El show de Carlucho, in which he has been able to incorporate the three characters that made him famous in Cuba: Facundo, Aguaje and Bienvenido, and create four more: Amore H, Lina la Jabá, Hipólito el Teacher and Armando Cao.

At the same time, he considers that he has been able to prove himself artistically. In Cuba he did four shows a month and sometimes had to work three times in the same night in the cabarets to compensate for his salary.

"Here he does two shows a day," he says about El show de Carlucho, which airs Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. on Mega TV and at 8 p.m. on UniVista TV, and which has more than 300,000 subscribers.

Now Vázquez, 45 years old, continues performing in cabarets "to not lose the routine, but without the pressure of money," because he has a "dignified salary."