On the poster of the new Black Panther, Tenoch Huerta rises to the plate against "whiteness"

In Hollywood, he is the rising Latin star, starring in

But in his country, Mexico, Tenoch Huerta embodies the fight against racism and "

" -

- all power in the cinema industry.

An environment that he aspires to change by using his notoriety to contribute to a greater representation of actors of indigenous or

origin , reduced to the bad roles of delinquents.

Tenoch Huerta, 41, recently joined the small club of international Mexican stars - Alfonso Cuaron, Guilermo Del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, Salma Hayek and Diego Luna - who have found their way to Hollywood.

In

, he embodies Namor, mutant prince of a Mesoamerican Atlantis - a strong South American character in the middle of the gratin of black actors gathered in this new Afro-futuristic bet from Marvel Studios.

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But the path to the blockbuster, which hit theaters last week, has been rocky for the charismatic actor from Ecatepec, a working-class suburb of Mexico City.

“

,” launches Tenoch Huerta in a book published shortly before the release of the film,

(

).

Throughout the pages, Diego Luna's duo in the

series denounces

, which he defines as a

.

Métis vs.

"swarthy"

The forty-year-old thus attacks the

of

which is very widespread in his country, as well as the so-called "

.

“

, he explains.

”.

We are only given characters of delinquents, domestic workers, or the poor.

I am very sad to think that there is not a single superhero that our children can identify with.

Tenoch Huerta

Even before

, Tenoch Huerta was already the figurehead of the Poder Prieto association, a collective of actresses and actors who consider themselves victims

in the distribution of roles .

.

,” laments Christel Klitbo, 40, a dark-skinned actress.

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Aware of

Tenoch Huerta and the others insist on the

.

His appearance in

can help with that, he hopes: "

.

The actor also calls for a change in

within Mexican families, citing in particular this terrible sentence of parents wishing to marry their daughter to a white man in order - according to the popular expression -

.

In favor of laws against racism, he does not comment on the policy of the left-wing party in power Movement for National Regeneration (Morena), which claims to

.

Indigenous minority of Mexico

“I believe that the demands of indigenous peoples have not been met.

But it is a subject that does not concern me, because I am not indigenous, ”

he replied to AFP on Friday during the presentation of his book.

.

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“In Mexico, there are 23.2 million people over the age of three who self-identify as indigenous, representing 19.4% of the total population

,” according to a statement from the National Institute of statistics (Inegi) as of August 8, 2022.

In total, 20.7% of Mexicans aged 18 and over said they had experienced discrimination in the year preceding the first national survey on the subject in 2O17.

And 3/4 of the natives have the feeling of being undervalued by Mexican society.

concludes Tenoch Huerta, in reference to the conquest of Tenochtitlan-Mexico by the Spaniards, in 1521.