“Society looks down on you.” Sebastian Marcelo Chavez, the actor who plays “Fiorito” in the third installment of El Marginal, denounced the discrimination he suffered during his childhood. The young man arrived at Misiones at the age of eleven and settled with his family in the Villa Zavaleta.
“As soon as we arrived I had to start working because of the financial problems at home. All my brothers worked as kids. My first job was in a metal company. We collected things, like a cartonero,” he recalled in dialogue with the Open Debate cycle of C5N.
He left school because “I needed to work”. “I had problems, out of necessity, out of sadness: drugs, anxiety. It’s hard not to fall into that because of the reality you encounter. It drowns you out there. Only someone who is from there can explain it. Society doesn’t help you, neither does the Government.”
“Society looks down on you. I was never ashamed to be where I am from. Music allowed me to communicate with people from another social class. “I never felt less, even though they look at me strangely and want to discriminate against me.”
“In the neighborhood, kids go to school hungry. At work they want to black you. “You grow up with a hatred of others that is difficult to get out of.”
Chavez He also targeted the political leadership. “They owe a lot to the lowest people, to the poor people. It’s unfair that I have to sleep on the floor and someone else has a bed. I have that justice well marked. Why can’t I sleep in a bed? Why isn’t my house plastered?”
According to him, getting ahead was not easy. “At work they wanted to pay me little because I was from the village. She was resigning. I had many jobs. “I always had the mind not to let them black me.”
“You grow up with a hatred of others that is difficult to get out of: why do you have what I don’t have?”
“In the neighborhood, kids go to school hungry. At work they want to black you. You grow up with a hatred of others that is difficult to get out of. Why do you have what I don’t have, why am I here and you there? It’s not envy. It’s thinking why you have to go through so many things and the other person can be calm. That leads you to not care about the other person. And you can’t explain anything to that kid, because he won’t listen to you.”