| 19/12/2020 – 12:59 PM (GMT-4)
The Cuban chess grandmaster Roberto G. Pantoja He took up the island’s regime on behalf of those who disagree with the system like him, and made it clear he is not a mercenary but a young man who loves his country.
“All those who think or disagree are mercenaries, the label is always current and ‘dissolves’. GM Lázaro Bruzón Batista, along with other Cuban chess masters, announced a simultaneous to support the MSI, in Cuba they organized a national show of simultaneous … Why can’t there be a spontaneous event? Why are we doing everything as a sequel? “, asked Pantoja.
“ Cuban chess is experiencing one of the worst moments, along with the Cuban sports movement, multimillion-dollar robberies in INDER (no state budget was delivered until March 2020 as the last of these robberies were still accounted for), assault of athletes at the level nationally, throughout the sport pyramid, poor organization and logistics of events … A long list that speaks of functional problems and corruption. Why can’t I report this as a Cuban citizen? “
The chess player said he has friends who believe in the revolution, in the process, in its necessity. “I respect that, why can’t the revolution respect my feelings and see that I conscientiously disagree? I AM NOT A MERCENARY, I AM A YOUNG MAN WHO LOVES CUBA,” he said.
Various chess players and Cubans from exile they called a simultaneous game of chess in support of the San Isidro movement (MSI). The appointment is next Saturday at Club Miami, located at 12625 45th Street in the southwest.
The simultaneous title, entitled Félix Sicre in honor of the first unofficial Cuban chess champion in 1860, is an initiative of the San Isidro movement and Somos +.
The initiative will include the Cuban Grand Masters for the International Chess Federation (FIDE) Lázaro Bruzón and Holden Hernández, and Marcel Martínez, FIDE teacher.
Given this news, the Cuban government also evoked a simultaneous chess giant this Saturday across the island, with the aim of “invoking the role of Fidel Castro Ruz as the promoter of chess” and greeting INDER’s 60th anniversary, which will be celebrated on February 23rd.
Last July, Grand Master Pantoja had to appear before a disciplinary judge at the “Giraldo Córdova Cardín” High Performance Training Center, where he got pressure for his publications on social networks, where, among other things, he denounced the months-long non-payment of the monthly incentive of 100 CUC that the INDER pays to athletes .
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