CENSORSHIP: Provincial Commission PROHIBITED speaking WITH THE PRESS to the manager of the National Series

By Jose Alejandro Rodriguez Zas

If you are a faithful reader of SwingFull and a follower of everything that happens in the National Baseball Series, he will be aware of the “talk” of the last few days in the most important sports championship on the Island, it is the issue of the sanctions against the players Andrés Hernández de Industriales and Alexis Miguel Varona de Sancti Spíritus, for “non-compliance with the competition regulations”, according to the corresponding authorities.

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The purpose of this work is not to rain on the wet, it is already known that both players were prohibited from playing with their teams for three games, after the size of the initial five games was reduced, an attitude that has been rejected by the majority of Cuban baseball fans and specialists.

It is also known that the National Baseball Commission and its leader, Juan Reinaldo Pérez Pardo, have reiterated on several occasions the care that the players of the series must have in giving interviews to “unofficial”, “independent” or “unaccredited” media. » in the domestic contest, which has caused many reservations in athletes and managers to provide some kind of statement.

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just a few hours ago, we publish on our website a note in which the words of the star ballplayer from Sancti Spiritus Frederich Cepeda were shared on the subject, clearly against the absurd limitations imposed by the baseball authorities on the Island, who was hesitant to accept an interview with the journalist Elsa Ramos, a regular on baseball topics for the yayabera province and staff of the official press (in addition to doing very good work, by the way).

Almost at the same time, another similar experience transpired, this time narrated by the journalist Giovanni Martínez of Bohemia Magazine, who received the rejection to be interviewed by the manager of the Hurricanes of Mayabeque, Michael González, in a job for said media, also an official.

The event occurred last Saturday, February 19, at the Latin American stadium in the capital, when Martínez was preparing to meet the director of the Mayabequenses, “in search of information for the readers of Bohemia”, carrying his proper credential that identifies him. .

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However, once the journalist met his intended and explained the brevity of the dialogue and its purpose, he received a negative response from Michael, in a “sharp” way, according to what Martínez himself narrates in his note.

“I am very sorry, I would not want to deny you the interview, but the authorities of my province prohibited me from giving statements to any media,” said the young director of the Hurricanes, who has guided the team to an excellent season.

“I can’t,” insisted the Mayabecan sadly.

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“I immediately remembered, although the link between one issue and the other seems inexplicable to me, the sanctions of two players days before,” the journalist wrote in his note, recalling that in the 60 Series, just in the previous campaign, the helmsman himself He had granted him a telephone interview, “during the hardest days of the pandemic (…) What a great irony!” he commented.

From now on, the journalist expresses his opinion on this whole matter, which seems to be taken from a science fiction movie. Can we perhaps be able to reach those extremisms in Cuba? Who will have the right to interview or simply talk with Cuban athletes, especially the players of the National Series?

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“Unfortunately, what happened slows down the information process, promotes ignorance and constitutes an unwanted interference between the journalist, his interviewees and finally the fans, who are ultimately the objective of our work as press reporters, as well as has to be the of the provincial directors, team managers and players”, the journalist very correctly stated in his note.

And you, dear reader, what do you think about it?

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CENSORSHIP: Provincial Commission PROHIBITED speaking WITH THE PRESS to the manager of the National Series