The ten lies that Cuban announcer Frank Abel Gómez told in his interview with Destino Talk – Latest news from Cuba, photos and videos – 2024-07-09 10:00:10

2024-07-09 10:00:10

In a recent interview with the program “Destination Talk”Cuban broadcaster Frank Abel Gómez Bernal made several statements that have been quickly denied by various sources. Below we detail the ten most notorious lies from that interview:

1. The best announcer in CubaFrank Abel has never been considered the best announcer in Cuba. Although he worked for more than 20 years in official media such as Radio Taíno and hosted television programs such as “De tarde en casa” and “El Exitazo”, his popularity did not reach the levels he suggests. We do not know if he was the one who said it, but Destino presented it that way, so it is likely that at some point the idea was put forward that Frank Abel was the best announcer in Cuba, which is completely erroneous.
2. “I have first level voice-over skills”Frank Abel claimed to have a first-class speaking ability, but in reality, he has a second-class one, which he himself admitted at another point in the interview without realizing it. This slip was confirmed by Cubanos por el Mundo with people close to him.
3. “I am an actor”: Although Frank Abel studied drama at the National School of Art, he has not had a significant career as an actor, nor is there a “public” role on TV that he has played for which he is remembered or can even find his name among the credits. However, at one point, he was considered for a casting for the play “Showbiz” with the playwright Jazz Vilá, a personal friend of hers, but she did not get any part in the play after unprofessional behavior at a party in which she told some people that Camila Arteche was a “gray actress,” which is why she was left out. “He never acted, not even the head of a turkey”reveals a source who knows him perfectly, and who says she considered herself his friend.
4. “I had the best references in Cuba”: Contrary to his statements, Frank Abel did not enjoy good reputations within the industry. He was fired from several shows for his problematic behavior and his reputation as a “swindler and bad person”Siro Cuartel assures that as a result of what happened after his post published on January 24, 2022, he took on the task of contacting several sources within the ICRT and none of them spoke well of Abel. “Quite the opposite”Cuartel now assured Cubans around the World.
5. “My mother was unjustly imprisoned”Frank Abel claimed that his mother was unjustly imprisoned, but various sources close to the announcer indicate that at the trial it was proven that she had committed theft, thus justifying her conviction; although in the case of the Cuban justice system, it is documented that on many occasions true justice is relegated to the background.
6. “I’m more famous than Bees Memes”: Comparing himself to Bees Memes, a currently very popular figure, was just another exaggeration by Frank Abel. All the fame that Frank Abel may have had pales in comparison to what he currently has. Bees Memes. In other words, he was no more famous than Bees Memes is now. Bees Memes is, according to several people who were asked for a comparison because they know both of them, more talented than him.
7. “Siro Cuartel never showed his face”: Siro Cuartel, a journalist known for his anonymity, has always maintained this position, which is part of his style and character. However, he is a serious and respected journalist, which contradicts Frank Abel’s statements (see note in Periodico Cubano). Siro Cuartel “did not face Abel”, as he has NEVER done in public, since his character left the letters to the streaming, he ended up being copied by El Martí to Durako. Despite that, and having debuted within humor, satire, sarcasm and his famous and delicious apocryphal interviews, he is considered a serious journalist, and is consulted as a source, for his great work within journalism and people with whom he is related. Cubans around the worldwhere he has worked and occasionally collaborates for many years, can assure that He is not a lying journalist.
8. “Siro Cuartel said that I attacked a journalist on July 11, 2021”: Siro Cuartel never wrote an article or said that Frank Abel Gómez had hit or gone out to the streets to hit opponents during July 11, 2021. What Siro Cuartel really stated was that Frank Abel defended the ruling party during the events of 27N, mocking the artists who protested in front of the Ministry of Culture, as seen by him on Abel’s Facebook profile. “He made fun of the artivists who went to the MINCULT on Facebook and said that THEY WERE NOT ARTISTS. That artists had been Rosita Fornés (among other names)”. Cuartel, who, as Cubanos por el Mundo was now able to confirm in a phone call, has never changed his version of events, also said that on his Facebook profile – on Frank Abel’s – there were photos of Frank Abel with other “official personalities,” which Abel then, for some reason, conveniently deleted before coming to the U.S. The controversial post made by Cuartel – the one that started the whole barrage of questioning of the former official announcer – was this one:

Note that at no point is there any mention of “beating” or “July 11.” And note in this other Video taken during her interview at La Casa de Makalike him, unconsciously takes up “the thesis” of “differentiating artists”.

9. “Siro Cuartel invented a chat”: Siro Cuartel did not invent any chat. Frank Abel called journalist Yelanys Hernández a hypocrite in a post that can still be seen on the journalist’s profile, promising to block her for her political opinions.

Note that Yelanys speaks to “someone” to whom she says: “I still love you, friend”. From there, there is a conversation in which reference is made to something that someone said that was not appropriate, or at least seemed strange.

Cuartel, who sarcastically calls himself “The King of Scrinsho”” provided Cubans for the World with proof of what was said (what the announcer said in that post). Regarding this, Frank Abel said in the interview in Maka’s House that it could have been “the work of technology”, alluding to the fact that he could have been the victim of a hack, and that someone else had written it for him. Apparently “technology” also worked afterwards, to erase what he said.

Here is what Cuartel said regarding what Frank Abel said in Maka’s Houseand what Frank Abel had written in Yelanys Hernández’s post.

Frank Abel, allegedly after the program ended in Maka’s House where the post was shown to him, he deleted his comments, which appeared here. He said they were fake, that he didn’t know her.

10. “I don’t know Yelanys Hernández”: In other interview Made in the heat of events, with the actor Roberto San Martín and his wife, Alicia Barreras, Frank Abel also denied knowing Yelanys Hernández, when he was told about this chat and his interview in Maka’s Houseand he was even shown a photo that he took with her in Santiago de Cuba.

That is to say, a famous Culturales announcer in Havana denied knowing a journalist who worked for more than a decade in Havana in Culturales, interviewing many personalities of the cultural sector, among them to all those who attended the so-called Concert for Peace in the Plaza de la Revolución. Reports and videos broadcast on Cuban Television.

Abel said that Yelanys was perhaps a little girl who approached him in Santiago de Cuba to take a photo, as many did when they saw him on the street. Now, two days ago, on “Destino Talk”, he admitted that she was a friend and fan of his, contradicting his own words said in Maka’s House.

The veracity of these and each of the statements made by Frank Abel on the program with the influencer Destino, has been questioned not only by former colleagues at the ICRT, and friends, but also by several journalists and observers of the Cuban entertainment industry.

Frank Abel Gomez continues trying to rebuild his public image, but these inconsistencies in his statements affect his credibility. Cubans around the world He wishes the announcer the best, and only advises him to seek treatment from a psychologist for his mythomania.

Cubans around the world We also hope that Destino, the influencer, as Alexander Otaola has advised him on other occasions, prepares himself more when interviewing Cubans. Our platform is more than willing to help the Dominican influencer to truly influence, without the need for his interviewees to mercilessly bombard him with lies, as Frank Abel recently did.