CUBA: CUBAN LEADER FIDEL CASTRO WELCOMES HOME SIX BOXERS WHO STORMED OUT OF THE WORLD AMATUER CHAMPIONSHIPS IN AMERICA

Record ID: 983793

  • Title: CUBA: CUBAN LEADER FIDEL CASTRO WELCOMES HOME SIX BOXERS WHO STORMED OUT OF THE WORLD AMATUER CHAMPIONSHIPS IN AMERICA
  • Date: 27th August 1999
  • Summary: HAVANA, CUBA (AUGUST 27, 1999) (ICRT) 1. VARIOUS OF NEWSPAPER HEADLINES ANNOUNCING BOXERS' WALKOUT 2. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE GATHERED IN PARK DISCUSSING THE BOXERS 3. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) UNIDENTIFIED BOXING FAN SAYING: "Simple. This is about a mafia that has money and is investing it in that interest (boxing). It is to secure professional boxers in their place in boxing and because they cannot play by the same rules, the only choice is to eliminate amateur boxers. They are doing it in a very dirty way." 4. GENERAL VIEW OF PARK 5. PLANE WITH BOXERS ARRIVING 6. PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO ARRIVING TO GREET BOXERS 7. FANS GATHERED 8. BOXERS DISEMBARK PLANE AND GREET CASTRO 9. FANS GATHERED 10. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) CASTRO SAYING: "We are not impartial judges. We do not belong to any mafia. We are revolutionaries. Sons of a great nation." 11. BOXERS APPLAUDING 12. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) CASTRO SAYING: "We are speaking clearly. In my opinion, they gave the medal to affect Cuba and to favour the United States team. To destroy our championship. Any rationale person who knows just a little bit will understand what I am saying." 13. BOXERS 14. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) CASTRO SAYING: "But we know that these actions to displace Cuba are not done as a sporting manouvre, but as a political manouvre. It is also the result of envy, the result of inferior complexes before the extraordinary thing that is Cuba, a small nation like this in the third world, blocked and impoverished." 15. BOXERS LISTENING TO SPEECH 16. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) CASTRO SAYING: "These are not just hollow words, these are sincere words from a revolutionary man who has never lied. Socialism or death, to victory always." 17. BOXERS GIVING PAMPHLET TO CASTRO Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: HAVANA, CUBA
  • Country: Cuba
  • Reuters ID: LVA9GJO4GYYBMCP3J7YVCIT7FALB
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