Boris Fuentes, Díaz Canel's “lemonade” journalist, returns to Cuba

The Cuban journalistBoris Fuentes, Whoever it wassection of official television for the famous report of the ruler's “lemonade”Miguel Diaz-Canel, returned to Cuba, apparently visiting after a long stay with his family in Argentina.

“Enjoying the unmistakable Havana boardwalk with its smell of salt and the beautiful image that is lost in the horizon and reuniting with family and friends brightens the soul and will always be necessary,” Fuentes said this Friday in hissocial networks.

Accompanied by his wife,Isabel Fernandez, former presenter of the official weekend news programs in theCuban Television, the journalist shared photos of both at the Meliá Cohiba hotel and inthe Havana Malecon.

Boris disappeared from the media in 2020, after reporting on a Díaz-Canel meeting in which he called for more lemon production. The reporter fell into disgrace by showing the leader saying that "lemonade is the basis of everything,"phrase that provoked numerous ridicule.

At the end of that year, after several months away, he confirmed that he would not return to the newscast. Although no official information was ever given, it was an open secret that he was punished and separated from his job for showing the oratory and statesmanship skills of the ruler appointed by the dictator.Raul Castro to succeed him.

"We have to have lemons in the country.Lemonade is the base of everything. You can use any lemonade, add anything else to a lemon soda base and it is a super pleasant and super good soda. We don't have it either," he said.

The famous speech was the origin of criticism, jokes and memes on social networks. After the scandal, the regime chose to "kill the messenger", further proof of the lack offreedom of the press and thecensorship that journalists suffer in Cuba.

His years of faithful service to the revolutionary cause were of no use to Fuentes and he paid for the ridicule of the ruler, caused solely by his poor political and cultural training.

Now the punished journalist and his wife are in Cuba, apparently visiting, and their words on social networks do nothing but appeal to the nostalgia of friends and family, and the smell of salt from Havana's Malecon. A smell that resonates with the citrus fragrance; the one that, without him realizing it, would go down in the history of ridicule and cost him his career as a journalist in the service of the Cuban regime.