The five-time Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling, the Cuban Mijaín López, paid tribute to the memory of the dictator Fidel Castro alongside leaders, neighbors, family, and friends who participated in an event organized by the regime's authorities in his neighborhood.
A team from the Cuban Television News (NTV) went there to report on “the tribute that our people continue to pay to our Olympic athletes on this memorable date of August 13, the anniversary of the birth of the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution.”
"We have to continue showing the world that we have continuity, continue showing the world that we need to rectify, study, sacrifice ourselves, and do great things for the future, for the young people who follow us," declared the fighter to whom the dictatorship gifted a Mercedez Benz in 2020.
Mijaín, having become the new champion of the so-called "revolutionary sport," continuously appears in Cuban state media, which, delighted, celebrates the champion thanks to whom Cuba made headlines in the recently concluded Olympics.
Its image has once again been manipulated by the propaganda of a totalitarian regime that employs violence against those who dissent or demand rights and freedoms, appealing to its corpulence as a symbol of the strength of the dictatorship.
The athlete, who has participated multiple times in this game with the dictatorial power, even going so far as to physically assault an activist during the recent Pan American Games in Chile, appeared this Tuesday wearing a shirt stamped with the signature of Fidel Castro.
"I believe that there is no great athlete in life who is capable of having so many chapters in history without a family. Family gives you the essence, it gives you wisdom. I think it is something historic to have achieved five gold medals and to be Cuban, representing the people of Cuba, a country so small yet big at heart... I feel honored by my people," declared Mijaín alongside the Secretary General of the Central Workers' Union of Cuba, Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, and the highest authorities of Havana.
The athlete and deputy of the National Assembly of People's Power took advantage of the "spontaneous" tribute to insert a slogan supporting the Cuban regime and the leader of the so-called "continuity," the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel, into his statements.
“We are two or three minutes away from a birthday that is very special, that of our undefeated commander Fidel Castro Ruz. I believe that with our presence here, we are reaffirming all the continuity that he left here in this homeland. And we are happy to be here and represent our people, today, tomorrow, and forever,” Mijaín said hours later at the event organized on the Malecón to celebrate the tyrant.
During the Olympics, the leader of "continuity" called the athlete on the eve of the gold medal match. Mijaín thanked him for the call and said, "Rest assured that tomorrow that title will belong to Cuba."
"I don't exaggerate when I say that #MijaínIsCuba: the people of African and European roots who do not give up, who do not sell out, who believe in themselves and in their lineage. The most important thing about the Olympics, without Cuban chauvinism. It is a unique feat. What admiration! How happy I am!" wrote the continuity leader Díaz-Canel minutes after his fifth victory.
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