Eduardo Yáñez confesses why part of his childhood was spent in prison and what he learned from the inmates

The Mexican actor Eduardo Yanezwho began his artistic career in the eighties by participating in the Televisa soap opera 'El amor que yo robé', has had a life of professional success, but in his childhood perhaps he did not enjoy it in the same way as other children.

Eduardo Yáñez had a somewhat complicated childhoodhe remembers it in an interview with the journalist Matilde Obregón for her YouTube channel, He confesses that he grew up among the corridors of a prison.

Eduardo Yáñez is the grandson and son of women who worked as guards in a mixed prison in the State of Mexicothey took him little with them, because they had no one to leave him with to take care of him and that is why part of his childhood he grew up breathing the smell of prison.

“I grew up there for six years, from 6 to 12. I had a great time. The prisoners treated me well, the inmates too. I was a kid, everyone wanted to pick me up. There I learned to play chess,” Eduardo Yáñez tells Matilde Obregón.

Eduardo was a very friendly and talkative child, That's why in prison he always talked with prisoners, also mentions Eduardo Yáñez, originally from Toluca, State of Mexico and who is currently 63 years old.

“I learned a lot. A prisoner's advice is always based on personal pain, or personal life, and they give you examples from their own life. You see the diversity of each person's situations and why they are there,” he says. Eduardo Yanez in part of the interview in which he talks about what part of his childhood 'in prison' was like.

Now, Eduardo Yáñez reflects on the people who are imprisoned, some accused unjustly and serving sentences that they should not, from this he concludes that “kindness inside a prison grows a lot due to the lack of freedom and that the kind have to become strong or evil to defend themselves and save themselves. It is life against life.”

Eduardo Yáñez, especially remembers that at that time he recited 'I grow a white rose', by José Martí, a poem that the prisoners enjoyed and applauded, is a beautiful memory he has of his childhood before 'his time in prison'.

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I studied Communication Sciences at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa. My experience as a journalist dates back to 1988, when I began to collaborate with Grupo Acir, with Fernando Sarabia and Julieta Hernández in a Shows program. Then I joined Noroeste as a collaborator in the Entertainment section with Rolando Arenas and stayed for almost five years. Later I joined the newspaper El Sol del Pacífico and collaborated with Susana Cazadero in the Entertainment section for 3 years. I joined Debate de Mazatlán in 2001 to work as a Social, Culture, Entertainment reporter; Then I received the opportunity, in 2012, to be Editor of the newspaper La Sirena, a position I held for three and a half years. In my career I have interviewed great figures of entertainment, among them Joan Sebastian, Olga Breeskin, Yuri, Thalía, Lupita D'Alessio, Mijares, Vicente Fernández. I have witnessed the artistic birth of other figures such as Gloria Trevi, Alejandra Guzmán and Ana Bárbara, whom I also interviewed in their musical beginnings. I have closely followed the career of groups such as Banda El Recodo, La Arrolladora Banda El Limón, La Original Banda El Limón; I have also supported since its beginnings and interviewed Banda MS, Julión Álvarez, Espinoza Paz, among others. Since the end of 2015 I have been working as a web reporter in the Debate Shows section. I specialize in writing about Televisa, TV Azteca, particularly their reality shows, also about the careers of celebrities such as Lucero, Aracely Arámbula, Jenni Rivera, Lupita D'Alessio and Mario Moreno “Cantinflas”.

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