"Venezuela will recover in ten years doing what I say": José Luis "El Puma" Rodríguez

His rebirth is due to double lung transplant who suffered the end of 2017 to resolve the fibromatosis that he suffered for years. Without supervision and with contagious enthusiasm, José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma" spoke exclusively with Infobae Mexico in his house in Miami.

He told the miracle of the first person that he had to live and learn what had left him: "I felt myself dying, this disease is incurable, if any one tells you that it's a good thing. there is a solution, it makes you waste your time. "

He also talked about Venezuela, the possibility of being president of his country and how he could recover in a decade as a result of his recommendations.

– How are you today, after the transplant?

– At 70% of my total recovery, I think I will gradually reach 100%.

-On May 11, you start a tour of concerts, are you in good physical condition to go on stage?

-I'm ready to tour, if it had not started. That's one a week, something that was not like that before. Then I come and go, but without killing myself a lot, being able to communicate with people, to enjoy it. Really enjoy the show and do not do a musical monologue.

-The tour calls "Grateful", why this name and what is the difference with the previous concerts?

Yes, grateful to the public. Grateful for all that he did with me, the glbad of death. Here it is forbidden to complain and forget, you can not forget where God has taken you, the miracle he has done with you, and you can not complain, because you are well, you breathe . This is a new opportunity to improve things a little, but enjoy it.

-When you say "really enjoy", does that mean you have not enjoyed it before?

-Travel, course, let's go at dawn … I was fed up with that. Life is not a race that you can not stop, you have to stop a bit, because otherwise God stops you. He tells you by the right "stop", as Caroline, my wife said to me: "Stop!", And I said: "I do not know how to stop, I do not know not where the brake is,
I do not know how to stop that. "The truth is that God stopped me.

-How was that day when God stopped?

-In Barranquilla, during the last show, I could not do it anymore, I had to use an oxygen pump in front of people and there everything was discovered, which I was wrong. That's where I arrived, it was in 2014.

– At that moment, what was the first thing that came to you in the spirit?

– I said, "I'm done, I think that's the end". I felt dying It is a terrible deterioration, because this disease is like that, it does not stop, it does not heal. If a person tells you that she has a solution to that, it's a lie, the only solution is, in reality, the transplant.

– How did you experience the news that you had to be grafted?

-I have thought a lot. I started looking for other pieces. There are people who think they have the solution, but it's a lie, they just waste your time, with methods and things, until you realize it, and the doctor tells you: "You will continue to aggravate yourself if you do not make the decision: it's death [segura]"

-What was your biggest concern?

-My age. This is not usual, I think it's a very special case, in which a guy of my age, 76 years old, who had two lung grafts, presented a very high risk. Making this decision for me was vital, but if I stay [dudando], I die, "if I try to live eventually", and since I have faith in the Lord, I believe that Christ is the miracle, because for me it is a miracle.

-Totally. Unfortunately, combine the person who dies so that you live and that the lungs fit perfectly into your body. Finding the dealer on time is a miracle.

– How was the waiting time?

-I waited a few months, and it was always wrong. This makes you disabled, you can not do anything, in fact, if you do not have someone to help you, they ask you, "Do you have someone to really help you?" I've had two, my wife and Marlene, my badistant.

– How was the waiting?

-You depend on a call. You have to sleep with the phone next to your bed. It can be anytime. One day, I get a call at dawn. We went to the hospital, we waited 24 hours, the doctors arrived and they said, "We have doubts". I told the doctors that if they had a percentage of doubt, we would not do it. We left, we waited about four months more, it was an eternity … until the second call arrived.

– How were these months?

One day you remain weak in the faith, the next day you get up bold in the faith, you overcome the days; but there are days when you are really very bad and you say "good, until I have arrived". You do not know when you are going to spend the next day, and that happens to all those who are waiting for a transplant, be it from the heart, from the liver,
pancreas, lungs, any transplant.

-What happened at the second call?

– I came to the hospital and the doctor told me now: "Now I think it's the lungs", and the process started. Get ready with the necessary time, the operation was a success, and from there to there, there are people who recover very quickly. I am a year and three months old.

-When you were awake from the transplant, how was he alive?

-I had a tube, of course. I woke up and saw that it was in the body, they made me tie up with gloves. Carolina was scared, I looked into her eyes to get in and when they took off my gloves, I started writing to say what I wanted, but two days later, fortunately, they took my tube. And when I started breathing without oxygen, it was spectacular.

– How's your life?

– Continue with my exercise routine, diet, tranquility, meditation, try to sleep as best as possible, which is not easy, and give it away.

-Why do you decide to go back to the steps?

-What do I do? I die?

-I ask because I imagine that with a double transplant, the best health may be to not submit to additional physical requirements.

-But if it saved me, it's for something. So it was a vegetable? A
He is saved for one purpose, to testify that if God did it with me, he can do it with another person.

– Do you have contact with the donor's family?

-What would you say to people who donate organs?

-We all have the ego, you have the ego. Then it is brutally crushed, until you reconcile yourself first with God, with yourself. It's a blessing to be back in the body and have another chance to rectify yourself.

The situation of Venezuela

"El Puma" clarified that, when asked about his candidacy for the presidency of Venezuela, he replied that he could, he would, but the country that he has in mind does not exist not for the moment.

-If you had the opportunity, would you head as president of Venezuela?

No The country I think is a small state, managed with 8 or 10,000 inhabitants, nothing more. The labor law must be crushed, it was conceived by communists, by leftists, where the employer is the exploiter and it is the opposite, it is the l '; employer who is likely to give you work and bring bread to your home, so how are you going to jam him? You must protect him, give him his facilities for him to come and invest, risk. With good taxes, with a supreme court without politics.

– Is there a supreme court without politics?

– There should be, there must be, very well paid judges so that they are neither bought nor sold. Public work can not be the state: where do politicians come from to get money? Public works, negotiated.

Europe is unified by the economic part, America should be unified by the economic part. I think the dollar is the most sustainable currency, and I believe that Venezuela will achieve dollarization. In addition, you must go home before school. I am conservative, I am republican. We will have to carry out a very important purge and free the countries from the scourges that have always lived through politics.

-If you had a great power today, what would you do?

-Change the spirit and spirit of many politicians I would call "officials". If they really want to serve the country, they serve it with their hearts, because they have so deceived so many people. The product of Venezuela is due to the fact that they allowed the emergence of a Chavez.

– In addition to the tour, do you have any other projects?

Yes I'm recording an acoustic album, totally different from what I've done so far.

– What is your favorite song?

-Why did you choose that?

-What is the value of this check?

-The weather. From cradle to grave, you will live for a while. How are you going to split that time? I lost fortunes on time!

– And in what things did you lose more time?

– Watch TV, get away, get away, because how is this life reduced! A car, a plane, a scene, a hotel room … are really small places. I took my wife's time, I took my daughter. When you entertain people, you have a very easy yes and it hardly exists. It's all the time to please, please and please. The yes is death, it is not life.

– More "no" is the key?

Yes When you learn to say no, you start building yourself, you start defending yourself, and you start to be yourself.

-In addition to learning to say no, is there anything else to consider?

-Yes, love your neighbor as yourself. If you do not love yourself first, you can not love a person. It's as if they were saying in the plane: "Put oxygen first and then on the boy or the person next to you, if you do not run away first." you can not save the other. "

– Who would you thank? In addition to doctors.

-D First to God and then to the doctors; third to my wife, who has always been and will be, and my badistant. For the number of people who have prayed for me and many continue to pray. Intercession in the prayer of the righteous happens in the same heavens, and prayer chains also help you, as well as the general public, to all. And the friends who stayed.

-What is the first thing you think about when you wake up?

-Give thanks to God for the new day. People do not know what is dawn, take this for granted.

– And the last thing, when are you going to sleep?

-The world tour "Thankful" will include cities from the United States, Canada, Latin America and Europe.

–The first concert will take place at Fillmore Miami Beach on May 11th. Then, it will be presented on May 24 in Santo Domingo and on June 1 at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, California.

–The dates originally scheduled for the presentation in his country, Venezuela, would be 7 and 8 December.