The year was 1988 at the Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima, Peru, everything seemed to be going on normally, it was a day like any other, one of the biggest television stars in the world walked through the corridors of that airport, but what many They did not know that for Ramón Valdez that would be the last country he would visit and his last trip before returning to Mexico to see his last breath of life and that at the beginning of the 80s he was detected with terminal cancer that gradually killed him. little, starting initially with his lungs, extending to his stomach and finally ending with his marrow, all of this led to the fact that on August 9, 1988, at 64 years of age, Ramón Valdez was declared dead [Applause] and what not, and a nice neighborhood visit before I do not recommend that you subscribe if you like videos of mysteries, crimes or curiosities and also, as many may already know, a year ago I made a video on another channel talking about the life of Ramón Valdez, much of his career, biography and the cause of his death but now I am going to focus on much more details about what his last years were like before his tragic death and some enigmas and mysteries that continue to haunt his death to this day but well for that let's travel a little in the time let's locate ourselves exactly in August 1968, the month in which Ramón's first artistic relationship with Roberto Gómez Bolaños would begin in the program Los Supergenios de la Mesa Square. It should be noted that before all this, Ramón Valdez already had quite a file and a great career supported for more than 45 films but from 1968 onwards and for 11 years ramón valdez participated in various chespirito programs, becoming a great protagonist for his way of making the audience laugh in many of them, such as in the famous and remembered chapulín colorado' or also in el chómpiras and el peterete among others but without a doubt where his role stood out the most and where he is still enormously remembered is in his character of don ramón role where many of his friends thought that it was very similar to his way of being in real life we are in royal road at the end of Americo Vespucio up, how does it arrive like this, so untimely, this man is the crazy one, they are chasing me, I go to a place as beautiful as this one and this one keeps charging for a champion ham cake, but must you have eaten a ham cake or yes?
but he didn't put chili in it as he didn't put chili in it, here it is, here it is in chili again, the cake, but the years continued to pass and its popularity grew in all countries, especially in Latin America, in a huge way, devastating the boy. of the eight' with king peaks have all the television networks and becoming the most watched Mexican television program worldwide are you niger until a very mine this is how we arrived at 1979, the year in which the actor stopped working with Roberto Gómez Bolaños accompanying the departure of his friend Carlos Villagrán All of this happened exactly when Bolaño formalized his relationship with Florinda Meza Ramón Valdez took advantage of that departure precisely to take a short break and dedicate that time to his family, so he continued passing the time and two Years later, in 1981, he made the decision to return to the program with Roberto Gómez Bolaños. Here it is worth highlighting something very interesting.
To this day, it is said among the cast that the episode of his return to Chavo del Ocho', which you will see below, María Antonieta de Nieves in her character of Chilindrina was not received in a very emotional way since she was not aware that Don Ramón was going to return and as a way of complicity, no one from the cast mentioned that part to her. I open parentheses to clarify that to this day María remembers that When Don Ramón left, it hurt her a lot that he left the program, so well, her emotion, which you will see below, was not at all faked or acted, but quite the opposite, which makes this episode continue to be something else to this day. today [Music] well [Music] however, the reunion unfortunately lasted very little because there are two versions of the possible causes that led them to leave production again, one is that it was in solidarity with Carlos Villagrán who had already left the program as we already mentioned and the other is the version of his grandson Miguel Valdez who assures that his grandfather left to avoid conflicts with Florinda Meza who by then due to her relationship with Bolaños had already begun to have control of the program so time passed well and now we are in 1982, the year in which Ramón Valdez would begin other projects, traveling to Venezuela with Villagrán, there they recorded together Federico, a program that was produced by the RCTV network but had a drop audience so Ramón Valdez only participated in the first season and then returned to Mexico, here I open parentheses and again to mention that it was exactly at that time where Ramón Valdez was diagnosed with cancer due to his strong addiction to tobacco, he had a horrible addiction that It took a tremendous toll.
In this way, we arrived in 1985. The beloved Don Ramón underwent stomach surgery to reduce his stomach by a third, but there it was discovered that cancer had already metastasized to his spinal cord. The actor was medically terminally ill and received only certain palliative care in the next three years of his life so finally in 1987 and being seriously ill both actors resumed their neighborhood characters and participated in that kiko program in which don ramón was now the manager of a store and Kiko was his assistant.
It was in this production that Ramón Valdez recorded what would be the last episode, which would appear on television. What caught everyone's attention was the fact that it was signed coincidentally in a cemetery shortly before his death, but this part of We will leave the story for later since there is a very curious and sinister fact about the recording of this last scene, but once he returned to it, Monchito's health worsened and the stomach cancer continued to advance, but that did not stop him from that deadly addiction. It is even said that he used to smoke during the presentation of the different chespirito programs, the then president of televisa emilio azcárraga and an order that in none of his productions would people be seen smoking he even said it under threat of immediate dismissal this was followed by everyone except ramón valdez He was allowed it because the businessman had a great friendship and felt great admiration for him for his way of being [Music] you don't grow up [Applause] as we were saying previously in the series that Ramón Valdez starred alongside Carlos Villagrán, where Kiko recorded the last chapter of his life, what attracted attention is the fact that it was signed precisely in a cemetery weeks before his death, a scene in which Don Ramón gets lost in the fog just as he enters the cemetery even Carlos Villagrán commented the following about it the last scene of the rumor vision of the low mist effect the night is seen Don Ramón enters to look for Kiko acquisition of the pantheon and the doors close the cut remains but I well know that in the video that I already did previously about the life of Don Ramón I had already shown this scene but you may not have seen it yet so pay close attention to the following fragment [Music] [Applause] if you look for the full chapter you will see that the scene after Don Ramón enters the episode [Music] continues but everything that you see afterwards was recorded before, precisely that's how the scenes are always, both in a movie and in a series, on very rare occasions they are recorded chronologically, which is why, as Carlos Villagrán commented, literally the last one scene recorded by ramón valdez was the one we just saw but by then his health was already very deteriorated because his voice could be perceived as tired when he spoke and he looked even thinner than normal or is it precisely for this reason that the recordings of the series and after recording that episode of a in which Kiko undertook what would be his last trip to another country so that, in addition to the recording work, Don Ramón also gave tours of his circus to several countries and it was right there in Peru, where his health worsened even more.
In this photograph that we already saw, you can see him walking through the corridors of the airport in Peru just a little before he died. We can see how he makes the effort to be able to walk and he holds hands with two people. Who is on our left, we have his brother, the famous and known as the Valdez mouse, so well, after his health worsened, as we had already mentioned, this forced to return to Mexico again his task with his circus and the comedy program that Kiko would remain unfinished due to this illness.
All of this occurred between 1987 and early 1988. His agony was already felt among those closest to him. Carlos Villagrán recounted what those days were like.
end of the comic and he said that on the last visit he made to Monchito he saw him in a very delicate state, he said that he was aware that that would be the last time they would be with Don Ramón, even in his agony, he never stopped being him, he never stopped being make jokes or make jokes in that last talk he had with his great friend Carlos remembered the last joke that Don Ramón made to him before saying goodbye and in the last ones I didn't hug him, it was a kiss, we started to cry and he told me already, now, now Don't cry cheeks, it's more there, but it's a rival, don't make yourself a fool. On August 9, 1988, after two weeks of being sedated to avoid pain, it was then that his already tired heart couldn't take it anymore and the dear one stopped. actor died in the Santelena hospital in Mexico City at the age of 64, leaving a beautiful path through the world of comedy when Carlos Villagrán died and María Antonieta de las Nieves received the news in Peru, even in this photograph you can see The exact moment in which Carlos was given the sad if accompanied by a photo of him, it is said that at his funeral the only one of the entire cast who attended was Angelines Fernández, better known as the Witch of '71 since they were very good friends The people who attended commented that Angelines had spent at least two hours standing next to the coffin crying over and over again the phrase mi rorro mi rorro but María Antonietas de la Nieves, like Carlos Villagrán, were also very affected by her death and They were very sorry for not being able to be with him since they were on tour outside the country.
Roberto Gómez Bolaños did not attend the funeral, which weighed heavily on him because he was also outside of Mexico at that time. Edgar Vivar, Rubén Aguirre and Horacio Gómez, did not attend the funeral either.
