Imposible!
Just because a former El Diario reporter and her husband admitted in court they were spies for Russia doesn’t make it true, her son insisted yesterday.
“I still believe Juan Lazaro is from Uruguay,” Waldo Marsical, 38, said of his stepfather, who he claims had trouble pronouncing his real Russian name in court Thursday.
As for his mother, Vicky Pelaez — known for scathing portrayals of the US government in her columns — Marsical said, “The only Russian thing she likes is vodka with passion fruit.”
With his defense lawyer by his side outside the family’s soon-to-be-former Yonkers home, Marsical deflected questions about Lazaro’s admission to being a Russian named Mikhail Vasenkov.
“I never saw him speaking in Russian,” Marsical said. “I don’t know where that name came from.”
He and his younger brother, Juan Lazaro Jr., 17, are awaiting word from their parents about what’s going to happen next.
“My parents may go back to Peru. We don’t know. We haven’t had any contact with our parents.”
He said Juan Jr., who wouldn’t answer questions when he left the house earlier in the day, shares his support for their parents.
“The family still has the same love for them,” Marsical said.
The younger brother is a classically trained pianist, attending classes at Mannes College, at the New School for Music.
Marsical acknowledged that the most “wonderful” teachers are here in New York. But he doesn’t know if Juan Jr. can or will stay here.
The federal government, he said, is seizing the house as part of the criminal case against his parents.
“It’s up to him,” he said. “It’s up to our parents.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen.”