After 10 days of crossing Mexican territory, Cuban canoeists Fernando Dayán Jorge Enríquez and Fidel Vargas arrived in the United States this Wednesday, according to journalist Andy Lans. During their journey they had “a stay in a bunker with 20 other people.”
Jorge Enríquez left on March 6 the concentration of the Cuban delegation that traveled to Mexico for a camp. The escape from him seven months after having achieved the first gold in canoeing for the Island, it was considered a “serious indiscipline”: the athlete, it was said, “turned his back on his commitment to his people,” according to the National Canoeing Commission (CNC). The man from Cienfuegos went from being a hero, whom they recognized with the delivery of a high-end vehicleto an outcast
“When an Olympic champion leaves his country, we can understand the magnitude of the social crisis that Cuba is currently experiencing,” the Sports presenter on Canal Caribe said on his networks. Andy Luis Leal Cerda. “It is not an indiscipline, nor a betrayal, he is an athlete who, after winning everything, looks for a better future”.
The escape of the 23-year-old athlete represented a dry blow for the Cuban regime, which saw in Jorge Enríquez medal opportunities at the next Olympic Games in Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028. Before the gold achieved in Tokyo 2020, he won between 2017 and 2021 six medals in World Championships: four silver and two bronze in the categories C1 5000 m and C2 1000 m. And at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games, two medals.
The escape of the 23-year-old athlete represented a dry blow for the Cuban regime, which saw in Jorge Enríquez medal opportunities at the next Olympic Games in Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028.
Hours after the “desertion” of Jorge Enríquez was confirmed, transcended the escape of the kayaker Fidel Vargas. The 29-year-old from Santiago has an outstanding career in the 2014 and 2018 Central American Games where he won three gold medals and the silver medal at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games.
Jorge Enríquez and Vargas will seek to continue their sports career in the US. These abandonments are added to that of the Cuban baseball player Dariel Polledo Aballíwho reappeared on US soil after crossing the border through Mexico days after leaving Villa Clara due to health problems.
Although it is not a leak, this Wednesday it was announced that Carlos Tabares, a well-known defender of the Cuban regime, “decided to stay in Miami,” journalist Yordano Carmona pointed out. And he closed the comment about the Olympic champion and World Classic runner-up with “How great are you USA!”.
Cuban baseball players Luis Enrique González and Daniel Pérez also arrived in the US this Thursday. “Both talented players born in Cienfuegos will seek to sign with Major League organizations,” the journalist published Francys Romero in the portal FR. and it became known the exit of the island catcher José Abilio Ferrer.
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