Ortega Cano, bullfighter, during his conversation with LOC. PHOTO: SERGIO GONZÁLEZ VALERO I VIDEO: NACHO MORENO
The bullfighter receives LOC at his home in Madrid and answers about Rociíto, Kiko Jiménez, the 'procés' and his years in prison
Ortega Cano, on the jump of the bullfighters to politics: "I am a friend of Santiago Abascal, but he has not called me"
Last Tuesday. The portentous voice of Rocío Jurado silences the birds that bite in a peaceful urbanization of the Madrid town of San Sebastián de los Reyes. On the outside of a chalet, a dark-skinned man grabs a cloak and looks at the horns of the cart holding an apprentice swordsman. "Hey, hey," this bullfighter yells at him with 38 horns engraved on his body. When the toy bull approaches, the man gently moves the cape to the rhythm of the largest . "Now it's your turn. You have to fight with the music, slowly, with temperance," he tells a young aspiring matador from San Sebastián de los Reyes to whom he teaches bullfighting. For love at art. Because Ortega Cano continues to take his bullfighting passion within 65 years and also his love for Jury, who died in 2006 as a result of cancer. "I miss her and I feel her alive," Ortega Cano confesses , holding one of the innumerable images on his neck, among others, the Virgen del Pilar, Santa Gema or the Christ of Good Death. The Cartagena asks his student to put on the bluetooth 'Like wings to the wind'. The right hand grabs the hood again and slides it. "Help me, help me sir to walk," he sings. "I like all of Rocío, but this song was made by a Catalan evangelist to Rocío , and he didn't ask for anything in return. I like it because life is a constant struggle," he says.
Do you feel it as close as you say? Yes and it helps me a lot. In the moments that I have needed it, it is always. Tell me about your most special moment with her. I have lived wonderful moments. She was an immeasurable artist, but then she was a woman of the house, she liked to cook, take care of the family. I told him that he was a peacock, he opened his wings and there he took all his people. Does he cry for his absence? Cry no, but I have it in my mind continuously and it is no longer because he was my wife, but because of the class of a person he was. And I miss her, but not only me, but in my house. My wife is a fan of her and we have her here 24 hours a day. Would you have liked to tell her something before she died? Yes. I would have liked to tell Rocío many things, how in love he was with her, the person and the artist and she did not give me time because her illness was so rapid that it did not lead me to say more things. When did you feel that you were in love with her? I felt it from the first day I saw her on Serrano Street. She went with her mother and I was a fan of her. All that long before I met her personally. I threw myself close to her all afternoon but I never told her that I was very admiring of her. The afternoon was gone and I said nothing, I was not able. And they ended the wedding night lying on a mattress on the floor, right? We were under construction at the farm in Seville, in Yerbabuena, and had not had time to furnish it inside. At that time everything was beautiful, sleeping on the floor, or anywhere ... the point was to sleep together. When will we see his museum inaugurated? It seems that there is now a new mayor and a few days ago I was with him and he gave me to understand that things were going better than other times and that there was the possibility of opening the museum as soon as possible. understanding of the other part, of his daughter Rocío Carrasco, right? I imagine so, but I think that the relations are very good and possibly in a short term will be inaugurated. Before dying, Rocío asked them to keep the family together, a situation that is far from reality. Does it make you sad? Well, these are things that happen, that happens to everyone, we are not the only ones. The families are united and somehow for things that we are not going to enter right now as they separate. If she had not been, nothing like that would have happened. Did she miss her in the tribute they organized to Rocío Jurado in June? Well, some are and others are no longer there. Will she go to see the play she has prepared about her mother? If she goes through Madrid, of course I will go. There may be reconciliation with her? I think so. Rocío Flores said he saw the near future to join his mother. I thought it was very beautiful. Do you understand that this young woman has positioned herself on her father's side? Yes, and I think it was a very good choice for her to defend him on television. Now I get along very well with Antonio, although we had some disagreement in youth.The retired bullfighter invites LOC to enter his house whose door is guarded by a bust of his mother who does not lack even the glasses she was wearing. The Ortega Cano salon is a kind of museum in its own honor that makes a journey through its bullfighting trajectory that treasures more than 2,500 runs and for its most special moments. From a visit to Pope John Paul II to the light suit of one of his most triumphant afternoons.
How do you see the current moment of the Fiesta? I see it as the same country, we need a good government, and a good group of bullfighters that excite people, and that the bulls ram. I took the alternative in 1973, I have known moments of all kinds. Now we are not in a low moment because there is a quarry of new bullfighters where they are Aguado or Ureña that people are very excited to see them. There are more and more children who want to be bullfighters, but it is true that it is increasingly difficult to see the squares with the full capacity poster ... No, what happens is that the economy shows everywhere and if there are five celebrations in a fair like Valladolid as people park one or two afternoons to go and those are the ones that fill up. But the fact that a few entrepreneurs control the sector does not think it goes against the show? I would not like to talk about it. I have many friends, I live in peace and I don't want to complicate my life. What are your favorite bullfighters? I am a lover of all bullfighters, but for me a bullfighter that meant a lot was Antonio Ordonez. Of those now, I really like Morante, Manzanares, Juli ... bullfighting as art.A six-year-old boy enters the scene decked out. He is José María, the son of José Ortega Cano with Aldón. Ortega Cano kisses his creature and accompanies him to the piano. The boy takes only two classes with Miliki's daughter and starts playing it. "Do, re, my, fa ... Good! You're going to be a great pianist," his father applauds. He asks: "Who is the best singer?" "Aunt Rocío," replies the boy.
Do you want me to be a pianist? I would like you to like music and sports and to take forward a career. And bullfighter, whatever he wants, how is José Fernando's recovery process going? Sometimes we miss him a lot, although we go to see him every week. He is clear that he has to get out of there plethoric. His daughter Gloria Camila has not been conflicted. How is it possible that they are so different when they received the same education? Well, there are no differences between them. See if Gloria is a pretty and hardworking girl that José Fernando is almost better. Maybe it's too good. He has been mean to himself with his way of being and there he had some friends and family that did not benefit him, but hey it is never too late, now he is very well, he is studying there. He is very focused and has been adapting for a few years because he is in a medical center. There it is because of the judicial thing he did unconsciously. Are you glad that your daughter left her relationship with Kiko Jiménez? I don't want to go in or out of those things, which I think I prefer to keep. She ended that relationship, is perfectly and did not affect much. If it had affected him more, he would be more worried. But it hurt that this person, whom he treated like a son, attacked Gloria Camila? I see it normal, young people no longer see values like us. I didn't catch any of this by surprise. I have overcome everything. That issue is in the hands of my lawyers. Didn't he rejoice at his departure from GH VIP? I'm not going to enter the television game because I hardly see it. I live in another world. Would you like your children to develop a life outside the programs of the heart? It is a world that exists, that people like very much. These programs have a lot of audience and go with the way of life that the Spanish lead now. What would be her perfect son-in-law? The one she chooses. I just want him to be a man who gives him happiness for a lifetime and not just for a while. He has just completed a year of marriage with Aldón. How do you carry it? It has been a year that has passed as if they were four days. What was your hardest moment? It was when a loved one went to the next world. You can say that of my mother and Rocío, the two people who have most felt his absence and a nephew of mine who wanted to be a bullfighter and who died at age 24. What did he learn from his life behind bars? Jail, I have no bad memory. My faith helped me and my whole family supported me a lot, but especially my wife. I had visitors every week. In prison, people were delighted with me and I am grateful to everyone. Do you understand that the relatives of Carlos Parra, the person he ran over, continue to criticize him? The family has the right to criticize, but I am fine. I have a clear conscience. Independence has burned Barcelona this week. Has it saddened you? Yes. I hope that peace and harmony are imposed because I have many people I want there and Spain must remain united.According to the criteria of
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