The spokesperson for the Nicaraguan regime, Rosario Murillo, reported that the dictator Daniel Ortega sent a bill to the National Assembly to declare Puerto Rican baseball player Roberto Clemente as a Nicaraguan national hero.
“(Roberto Clemente) will be recognized as a hero of our blessed Nicaragua, 50 years after his supreme act of dedication for Nicaragua and for Nicaragua,” Murillo said in his speech by the official media this Wednesday, November 30.
“He immolated himself for Nicaragua and for the Nicaraguans who suffered (the earthquake of December 1972), that is why he is a hero of our homeland and a hero and champion of solidarity and humanity,” he stressed.
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According to the regime’s spokeswoman, next week the deputies of the Nicaraguan Parliament will debate the proposed Law to declare the major league player a national hero.
“We are happy to honor Clemente as a hero of our blessed homeland,” Rosario Murillo stressed.
Roberto Clemente’s trajectory
This coming December 31 will mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Puerto Rican baseball player Roberto Clemente, who died in a plane crash in which he was transporting a shipment of humanitarian aid for the victims of the 1972 Managua earthquake.
A few weeks before his death, the professional player had entered the privileged group of players with more than 3,000 hits, a mark within reach of very few batters.
Also, one year after his death, Clemente was elected to the American Baseball Hall of Fame.
The Puerto Rican played in the right fielder position and spent his entire career with the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB), a team with which he won two baseball world series.
