SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- The sports journalist Yasel Porto revealed on Tuesday that, based on information gathered through various channels, he managed to find out who was the architect of the official site The Ball, dedicated to defaming the independent press, primarily that specialized in sports.
On its website DPorto Sports, it reported that Rudens Tembrás Arcia, dismissed by the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER)was behind The Ballfrom where pro-government journalists attack independent reporters.
“Today I have just confirmed, and through various means, that this ‘journalist’ was the one who was in charge of the La Pelota website, a space that, beyond supporting INDER and FCB, was dedicated to defaming and attacking several of us who are not part of the official press and, above all, are not aligned with its policies,” confirmed Porto.
In his case, the defamation, as he described in his post, was carried out “in a very marked, incisive, vile and even deceitful way.”
Publications of The Ball They frequently attacked journalists who collaborate with or have created independent media outlets on the Cuban sports scene, mainly baseball.
The defamations included calling them “paid by the CIA” in an attempt to delegitimize their work.
Yasel Porto came to light in quite a few publications The Ballwhere he was the subject of numerous mockeries.
From the official perspective, the word “press” was put in quotation marks, casting doubt on whether it really was such, and all kinds of adjectives were associated with independent journalists.
In January, they simulated a “baseball team,” whose places were occupied by independent communicators and included filmmaker Ian Padrón and even Yotuel as “number one fan.”
On that occasion, the insults reached the extreme: Porto was called an opportunist, they made fun of the physical appearance of members of Cuban Ball And about Eduardo Martell they commented that he was “sponsored by the circle of grandparents ‘The Tyrannosaurs of Calle 8’”.
The Cuban government’s website, led by the ousted Rudens, has been a platform from which to attack those who update the people and offer them information that does not circulate through the communication channels controlled by Castroism.
Rudens, defenestrated
However, according to Porto, Rudens “is only just beginning to reap what he has sown for years. Long before, even, when he was one of the great enemies of the Cuban baseball Hall of Fame project.”
At the end of May, the former director of HITINDER’s sports outlet, was accused of “abuse of power” in the “treatment of his subordinates.”
INDER sources consulted agreed that journalist Eyleen Ríos was the main complainant of the despotic statements of the publication’s director.
“Very few people here can imagine the damage this character has done to so many people and to Cuban sport in general in exchange for trips and a little boss status. Only those of us who have been part of the profession can measure him at the low level he deserves,” Porto wrote on Facebook.
Tembrás, who graduated as a journalist in 2006 from the University of Havana, had risen to a position as a “Communication Specialist” within the Coliseum itself. Sports City.
