Havana/Chess player Jesús Nogueiras denounced that due to the lack of agreement between the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (Inder) and the La Bodeguita restaurant, in Villa Clara, “they deny him food.”
As told to the content creator Jankiel Itakohe was “authorized a lunch and a meal” at the emblematic venue, but the sports authorities have not followed up. “Today they didn’t have food to give me. They didn’t have food for the one who knows the most about chess in Cuba,” said Nogueiras.
Nogueiras assured that he “gave $30,000 voluntarily,” of which he did not offer further details. The Grand Master, who represented the Island in 14 World Olympics, regretted that “no one takes care” of him. “It is the result of not leaving Cuba.”
For the chess player, a reference in Cuban sport between 1980 and 1990, “those from Inder and those from the Party do not take proper care of things, of their people, of those who stay here.” To which he added: “one stays on the side, because I don’t know about inventions. It is an offense to deny you a plate of food. A nerve. This is not the blockade or any aggression, it is the nerve that we sometimes do.”
The Grand Master, who represented the Island in 14 World Olympics, regretted that “no one takes care” of him. “It is the result of not leaving Cuba”
For the specialized environment Full Swing“Nogueiras is one of dozens of similar events that sink the athletic movement in the nation. The lineage they held in the past does not matter. When you stop being useful to the system’s propaganda you become disposable.”
This Saturday, Dairón Pérez Urbanocommentator and collaborator on the official radio station CMHW, shared the almost forced meeting he had with the chess player in Parque Vidal in Santa Clara. The communicator let him know that the interview, in which he stated that “he didn’t eat,” was taken out of context. Nogueiras assured that the sports authorities had already contacted the restaurant.
Last year, Dporto ArtSports It showed the poor state of health of the chess player. What was rejected by the sports institution in Villa Clara, who stated that he was provided with medical care and food, it was even stated that “they have been at his house to help him in certain domestic actions.”
Nogueiras’ case is not the first. The sporting glory of boxing Idel Torriente Sáez denounced in June last year the forgetfulness of the sports authorities. “They don’t take care of me… they keep me on one side waiting for me to leave,” lamented the man who survives with less than 20 dollars. Torriente has a space in the Sports Casino, located in the Antonio Maceo neighborhood, in the Armada Council, in Cerro, Havana.
