Baracoa ball stadium in danger of collapse

HeBaracoa ball stadium, in the province of Guantánamo, is in danger of collapsing, sports journalist Yasel Porto denounced on social networks.

In a Facebook post shared this Thursday, the communicator warned that the Manuel Fuentes stadium is about to be lost forever, “at least part of its original structure, due to the intentions to demolish a good part of it based on the danger it represents for people.”

The sports venue, the main one in a city with a great baseball tradition within Guantánamo, has succumbed to "salt, hurricanes, floods, the passage of time" and, above all, theinattention, lack of money and will, Porto explained.

“It became more and more difficult to recover what was once the sporting symbol of a beautiful and historic city,” said the journalist, who added that every year the National Baseball Series was played on that field and it was the training ground for the Cuba team at some point.

In his opinion, the facility has excellent infrastructure, but its construction so close to the sea “was a time bomb in a country like ours with such a high level of salinity and traditional economic problems.”

The inserted images show the destruction of the entire stadium, corroded bars, uncorked roofs, stands on the verge of collapsing and in all cases the exposed structure is shown, where only rods remain.

The forum members who left their opinions in the post agreed that the stadium is the result of the government's apathy and is a clear example of where Cuba is currently.

The sports journalist Julia Osendi said in a comment that she had gone to the place to do a report on its collapsed state, "but no one cares about anything, there the salinity and the sea corrode," she noted.

Despite the warning at the entrance to the facility and the obvious danger of walking through the structures, players from Baracoa continue to train on their field.

"Total destruction, this is what all of Cuba is like, all the streets, the sidewalks, you cannot go out at night. The elderly can no longer even go out during the day due to the deplorable state of the sidewalks and if it is in places like Centro Habana or Habana Vieja, you run the risk of a building falling on you (...) Everything is destroyed and the little that remains continues to be incorporated But nothing is done to maintain it, everything is a function of building new hotels. ", wrote one Internet user with indignation.

Thesports infrastructure in Cuba they are falling apart due to the government's inability to restore the main training centers for Cuban athletes.

Throughout the country,training venuesof various sportsare destroyed and suffer from the apathy of the government, the lack of budget and sometimes the inclemency of theMeteorological phenomena.