MIAMI, United States. – The official portal Cubadebate fired the sports journalist Boris Luis Cabrera Acosta, after four years of uninterrupted work.
“I want to tell the readers who have asked me that I will no longer collaborate with Cubadebate because my contract there was closed”, wrote the journalist on Facebook. “I prefer not to talk about the reasons that were given to me, in the end it is a decision of the management of that site and it is not worth making sterile defenses or promoting media shows,” he added.
However, Cabrera Acosta indicated that he reported on Facebook about his departure from Cubadebate so as not to “disappear from there through the back door” without giving an explanation to its readers in that medium, where it remained for more than four years.
“I just want to say that in all this time there I never failed. The summaries of the matches of the domestic championships, and the follow-up of our national team in the international tournaments, were never lacking”, he expressed.
“It was more than 1,600 days writing about that passion of ours with my own resources, and despite illnesses, family commitments, bad connections, and blackouts, I managed to ensure that the texts were always there with the immediacy that readers deserve” , said.
Finally, he assured that he would continue writing in the official newspaper Tribune of Havanaa medium where, he affirmed, he has always received “great support” and where “it is understood, as our National Hero José Martí would say, that criticism is to point out the black mole with a noble intent, and to vanish with a pious hand the shadow that darkens the beautiful work”, he finished.
After learning of the news of Cabrera Acosta’s dismissal, several of his colleagues expressed support for him on social networks.
The also sports journalist Michel Contreras said separate the sports reporter from Cubadebate It seemed to him “one more nonsense of a press system that prefers the slimy over the sincere. And that has been forever! As an example is my late friend Elio Menéndez, who could not attend an Olympics when people who did not come up to his ankles went again and again, to the point of disappointing him as far as perhaps only I know.
“To Boris, all my support. I met him when he was selling shoes in Vedado, and then he revealed himself to me as a guy who wasn’t the best at saying things, but who told them as they were (and that, in journalism, is worth gold)” , assured.
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