2024-06-15 06:19:40
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Textual content: Fede Gayardo
The Cuban sports activities narrator Modesto Agüero denounced the censorship just lately suffered on Cuban Tv regardless of his greater than 40 years {of professional} profession on this medium.
Via his Fb profile, the sports activities commentator additionally took benefit of the tip of the narration of the video games of one of many ladies’s softball groups within the Spanish League ‘Rivas Oliva Técnica’ to “talk with you and inform you one thing that many are certainly unaware of.” ”.
Agüero started by saying that final yr the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) employed him to relate the Spanish broadcast of the Valencia Group Qualifier video games for this yr’s Girls’s Softball World Championship.
“For me it represented a double pleasure, first as a result of a prestigious group that governs baseball and softball worldwide selected me and second as a result of Cuba was in that group from Valencia and they also would hear me narrating once more in our nation,” he added. the Cuban skilled.
Nonetheless, he later confirmed his “disgust at figuring out that in Cuba they eliminated my narration and narrated it in Havana”, a undeniable fact that for him is disrespectful to the 40 years that he spent as a sports activities narrator-commentator on Cuban Tv.
Throughout this intensive profession, Modesto labored on the narration of eight Olympics, a quantity that solely he has collectively together with his colleague René Navarro, along with the Pan American and Central American Video games, World Championships and Baseball, Boxing and Volleyball Cups.
“Why did they take away my story, as a result of I reside in Spain?” he requested himself after which added that “crucial step I’ve taken in my life, I took it seven years in the past and was coming to reside on this nice nation the place I’m thought of the primary narrator for the Royal Spanish Baseball and Softball Federation.”
Regardless of the unlucky occasion, Agüero thanked in his message “those that have been blissful that I’m narrating Softball and Baseball in Spain and people who inform me that they miss my narrations in Cuba.”
His peculiar voice, model and intensive data in varied sports activities made Modesto Agüero earn the respect of the Cuban public throughout all his years {of professional} observe on the island.
Censorship on Cuban tv is a matter that the skilled has referred to on different events, stating that the bounds are well-known by those that work in that medium, a observe that continues to be utilized by the nation’s authorities regardless of the various complaints.