Glory of Cuban sports Margarita Skeet completely abandoned in Havana.

Margarita Skeet, one of the great figures of Cuban women's basketball, is in total neglect and survives thanks to the help of her neighbors in the municipality of Cotorro, Havana.

The depressing situation of the former athlete was reported on the social network Facebook by a user named Ramón Rodríguez CordCordero in the group "Holguín: The city we want."

According to the post, Skeet is blind, lives in modest accommodations, and survives on the charity of some friends, without the support of the island's athletic authorities, despite his great results in the past.

"This regrettable situation of a glory of Cuban sports of all time cannot be allowed to continue, because it is an affront to our ethical and moral values," wrote Rodríguez.

With prominent performances in the 1970s, Skeet, known as the "Antillean Cyclone," was the great star of basketball in the largest of the Antilles, despite standing only 1.67 meters tall.

A very similar perspective was shared with CiberCuba by former basketball player Yuliseni Soria: "After more than three decades with the national team, no one remembers me," she said in an exclusive interview.

"I didn't expect to feel so abandoned at this point," she confessed in June 2021, the woman born in the capital municipality of Boyeros.

In February 2023, Félix Isasi, a legend of Cuban baseball, denounced the abandonment by the authorities in Matanzas, after not receiving support or visits following a transient ischemic attack and spending several days in the hospital, in addition to mentioning that he has a hard time "even getting parts for his car."

In September 2022, former youth world champion javelin thrower Marisleysis Duharte Morell criticized the government and the authorities amid her battle against a chronic autoimmune rheumatic disease.

The former Santiago athlete recalled that she was "a healthy, cheerful person full of life," but later "at INDER, no one remembers me, nor who I am, nor who I was, and even less about what I contributed as an athlete to the nation."

Last July, former volleyball player Abel Sarmientos Bios, a member of a generation that brought Caribbean volleyball to the top positions in the world, passed away in Havana at the age of 61, mired in poverty and obscurity.

Sarmientos was an extraordinary attacker for the national team for 14 years, from 1981 to 1994.