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The renowned actor and comedian César Nájera who played “Chiltepito”, died on Wednesday, March 19.
For more than 40 years, César Nájera, dedicated himself to entertaining adults and children. (PHOTO FREE PRESS: PL hemeroteca)
On Wednesday, Marshas of 2025 has become a day of mourning for Guatemalan art and culture. The artists died Julio Díaz and César Nájera, both presented health problems.
Mario Sandoval Nájera, a comedian’s brother shared that a month ago the artist suffered a stroke and had health complications.
He died at his room on March 19, at approximately 4 pm. He will be veiled at the Social Welfare Institute of the Guatemalan artist, Ipsa, in the 4th. Calle 9-17, zone 1. The burial is scheduled in the artist’s pantheon, in the General Cemetery, on Friday 21, after 9 am. In social networks different expressions of condolence were published.
In an interview with Free press In 2017, César Nájera He shared that since he was 14 he felt attraction for the performing arts.
Several theater groups were integrated with some friends, but that was not enough for him, “he wanted to be a professional artist,” so he entered the Popular University and the Academy El Ateneo Metropolitano, which worked in the municipality, where he was part of the comedians.
César Nájera lived in different countries
In 1977, César Nájera, jumped to fame when he adopted the name of the Chiltepito clown, along with his inseparable lantern couple (César Huertas, who already died). This duo made thousands of children laugh who watched the television program every week Healthy mindsby Professor Rubén Alfonso Ramírez.
When asked why he was baptized with that artistic name, the comedian replied: “Like the shape of my signature, it was something spontaneous. One day I thought, it is the name of a well -known, small chil He told on that occasion.
His first presentation was at a children’s party in Antigua Guatemala. The first years of the 1980s were difficult in the country – for the internal armed conflict – which influenced Chiltepito decided to look for new opportunities abroad, and so he traveled to Mexico, where he lived for a year and a half.
Again in Guatemala, he acted in a children’s program on Channel 5, but the “Gusanito” to open doors abroad did not leave him alone, so he left for Costa Rica, where he worked for the program Lucho’s fightof channel 6.
Then he went to El Show of Uncle Memo, which was transmitted at the Central American level. During the night he acted in restaurants in El Pueblito, in San José. He also worked for a year and a half in Guayaquil and Quito, cities in Ecuador, but fate took him to El Salvador, where he was part of the children’s stripes THE CHILDREN’S CASITA and Chiquilandia.
After staying several years abroad, he decided to file a new account in the country, so he made his bags and returned.
After thinking very well, he defined that his show would no longer be focused on children, but on adults, so he kept, with great pain, the character of Chiltepito, and began a new stage with The César Nájera show.