“I’m not a mercenary, I’m a young man who loves Cuba”

| 19/12/2020 – 12:59 pm (GMT-4)

The Grand Master of Cuban Chess Roberto G. Pantoja He took action against the island’s regime on behalf of those who like dissent from the system and clarified this. he is not a mercenary, but a young man who loves his country.

“Everyone who thinks or disagrees is a mercenary, etiquette is always timely and” resolves. ” GM Lázaro Bruzón Batista, along with other Cuban chess masters, announced a simultaneous to support MSI, in Cuba they organized a national simultaneous show … Why can’t there be a spontaneous event? Why do we do everything as a sequel? Pantoja asked.

“Cuban chess is facing one of its worst moments, along with the Cuban sports movement, robberies of millions of dollars in INDER (until March 2020 no state budget was delivered because the last of these robberies were still accounted for) , ill-treatment of athletes at the national level, throughout the sports pyramid, poor organization and logistics of events … A long list that talks about functional issues and corruption. Why can’t I report, as a Cuban citizen? “

The chess player said that he has friends who believe in the revolution, in the process, in its need. “I respect that, why can’t the revolution respect my feelings and see that I don’t agree conscientiously? I’M NOT A MERCENARY, I’M A YOUNG MAN WHO LOVES CUBA,” he said.

Various chess players and Cubans in exile they called a chess simultaneously in support of the San Isidro Movement (MSI). The appointment will be Saturday at Club Miami, located at 12625 45th Southwest Street.

The simultaneous, entitled Félix Sicre in honor of the first unofficial Cuban chess champion of 1860, is an initiative of the San Isidro and Somos + Movement.

The initiative will feature the participation of the Cuban Grand Masters for the International Chess Federation (FIDE) Lázaro Bruzón and Holden Hernández and Marcel Martínez, FIDE professor.

Given this news, the Cuban government he also summoned a chess giant simultaneously throughout the island this Saturday, in order to evoke “the role of Fidel Castro Ruz as a promoter of chess” and to greet in advance the 60th anniversary of INDER, which will be celebrated on February 23.

In July last year, Grand Master Pantoja he had to appear before a disciplinary court at the High Performance Training Center “Giraldo Córdova Cardín”, where he received pressure for his publications on social networks, where, among other things, he denounced the non-payment of months for the monthly incentive of 100 CUC that INDER pays athletes.

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