The double Olympic champion and flag bearer for the Cuban delegation at Paris 2024, Julio César La Cruz, lost this Sunday in his match against the Cuban-Azerbaijani Loren Berto Alfonso Domínguez, and the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel sent him a message of encouragement through his social media.
"Get up, champion! In sports, as in life, you win and you lose. You have given much glory to Cuba: 2 Olympic titles and 5 world titles. Recover soon and continue supporting your teammates and the rest of the delegation. A hug, captain!" wrote the Cuban leader.
With one eye on the Paris Olympic Games and the other on the electoral day in Venezuela, the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba is spending a Sunday filled with emotions that could end in tears and confusion for the Cuban regime.
While the captain of the Cuban delegation was displaying a poor performance in the ring, with little initiative and retreating too much, in the hallways of the Palace of the so-called revolution, the propagandists were getting excited about Hugo Chávez's birthday and were falling into a trance imagining the gift that the Venezuelans could give to the deceased dictator and ally of Havana.
"‘Not even he himself suspected how great he was,’ wrote his great friend and comrade of dreams and achievements, the Commander in Chief, Fidel Castro. Today, on his 70th birthday, Chávez lives and mobilizes his people, in another civic day of the Bolivarian Revolution," said on X the leader designated by General Raúl Castro.
This Sunday, at the age of 29, the Cuban boxer naturalized as Azerbaijani eliminated La Sombra, a fighter who sees the dictator Fidel Castro as an idol and shouted "Homeland and Life, no! Homeland or Death, We Will Overcome!" after defeating his compatriot Enmanuel Reyes Pla, who was competing for Spain in Tokyo 2020.
The three-year age difference in his favor and the seven centimeters taller, combined with the boxing technique of the Cuban boxing school and the training regimen followed with his new selection, gave Loren Berto an advantage that La Cruz could not counteract.
'La Sombra' is the captain and a significant emblem in recent years of the Cuban boxing team. The Cuban Olympic committee counted on La Cruz's gold, but three judges saw the Cuban-Azerbaijani Loren Berto winning 29-28, while two rated the Cuban's performance higher (29-28 and 30-27).
"In sports, as in life, there are wins and losses," Díaz-Canel told 'La Sombra' this Sunday.
Beware of life; like sports, do not give another opportunity to console itself with its primary philosophy, watching as María Corina Machado advances towards Miraflores with the intention of turning off the oil tap that sustains the longest-standing dictatorship in the Western Hemisphere.
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