The Cuba Cooperation France Association (Cuban athletes will be taken to France to prepare for the 2024 Country Olympic Games”>CubaCoop), a pro-Cuban regime initiative of that European country, has proposed taking Cuban athletes to prepare on French soil weeks before the start of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The project, which the Association described as an initiative to confront Washington’s “blockade” against Havana, it would mean that French municipalities welcome Cuban Olympic and Paralympic athletes from various disciplines, who would arrive at those destinations days before entering the Olympic and Paralympic Village.
According to the president of CubaCoop, businessman Víctor Fernández, this stay would allow athletes to have friendly encounters with local athletes, he quoted the official medium Jit.
The Paris Olympics will take place between July 26 and August 11, while the Paralympics will take place from August 28 to September 8, 2024.
According to Fernández, who has investments on the island and processes donations that he delivers to the government authorities, the US embargo “prevents the purchase of sports equipment and the trips abroad of competitors and coaches,” hence this initiative, which he did not mention How do you plan to finance?
The businessman would have presented his idea to officials of the state National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER), which they accepted “for their contribution to the preparation of the athletes and para-athletes, to the adaptation to the schedule and to the climatic conditions of Paris”, indicated Jit.
CubaCoop, an organization that in the last 25 years has financed dozens of projects in Cuba, including one for the production of pork in Cienfuegos, as well as another of hydraulic interest in Gran Piedra, Santiago de Cuba, also wants to negotiate with the French federations of various disciplines the possibility of working together with their Cuban counterparts.
“We already have the first fruits, for example in the case of judo, with details that we will deal with soon,” Fernández explained.
CubaCoop is financed, according to its Official site, through government contributions, local institutions, federations, unions, foundations, private donors and patrons.
only in 2020According to Fernandez told the official Prensa Latina agency, his organization invested more than one million euros in Cuba.
In addition to supporting the campaigns of the Cuban regime, its purposes include disseminating versions of the Cuban situation in Europe that support the story of Havana, promoting campaigns against critics of the regime and managing donations of humanitarian aid.
In his recent visit to the island, Fernández assured in the Official site of CubaCoop that held meetings with the ministers of Hydraulic Resources, Agriculture and Sports, with the first deputy minister of the Ministry of Foreign Trade (MINCEX), the general director of Renewable Energies of the Ministry of Energy and Mines, the deputy governor of Havana, authorities of Cienfuegos, as well as the new ambassador of Havana in France and the person in charge of Europe in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.
“All these high-level personalities have confirmed their desire to continue and develop economic cooperation links with our country, willing to receive future investors, particularly in the field of agriculture, hydraulics and renewable energies,” he said.
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