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COVID-19 sports chronicler who mocked the coronavirus in Nicaragua dies
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June 24, 2020
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Jos? Francisco Ruiz. Photo: Radio La Primer?sima
A veteran and prominent Nicaraguan sports chronicler, who mocked the new coronavirus last May, died last night after several days of suffering from COVID-19, state radio station Radio Nicaragua reported Wednesday.
Jos? Francisco Ruiz, 75, one of Nicaragua's best-known sports chroniclers, "died on Tuesday night, after struggling for several days with COVID-19 symptoms," Radio Nicaragua said on its website.
In mid-May, Ruiz, who at the time of his death was sympathetic to the Government of Daniel Ortega and was conducting a sports program on state-owned Channel 6 television, said that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus was a "fagot," related him to the opposition, with conspiracy theories, and assured that it was prevented with homemade medicines.
"This virus is a fagot, like the 'puchitos' (opponents), look at how it is a fagot: it is killed by soap suds," he said, mockingly, in his sports program broadcast on Channel 6, and whose video is has gone viral on social media.
Although his interlocutor warned him to be careful, the chronicler stated that the coronavirus was "working for what they did", without mentioning authors.
"They say that the old must be eliminated, because the old spend a lot and they are many. The war was against the old, this virus is for the old, "he added.
Ruiz also affirmed that an acquaintance of his was relieved by "gargling salt three times a day, with lemon grass, and he took boiling water baths with eucalyptus leaves, four or five days, (and) the virus died."
These comments led to ridicule towards the chronicler, better known as “Pepe Ruiz”, who was a teacher and radio actor, before dedicating the last 48 years of his life to narrating baseball and commenting on sports, a career that earned him recognition from the Association of Sports Writers of Nicaragua.
So far, Nicaragua has officially registered 2,170 cases of COVID-19, and 74 deaths.
For its part, the independent Citizen Observatory COVID-19, a network of doctors and volunteers that records suspicious cases, records 5,957 infected, and 1,688 deceased.
The Nicaraguan Government's strategy is not to establish restrictions to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, although it does accept some social prevention measures, and it promotes crowds.
This strategy has sparked concern in organizations such as the United Nations (UN) and the Organization of American States (OAS), as well as in their units dedicated to health and human rights. EFE
COVID-19 sports chronicler who mocked the coronavirus in Nicaragua dies
By
HOOP -
June 24, 2020
277
Jos? Francisco Ruiz. Photo: Radio La Primer?sima
A veteran and prominent Nicaraguan sports chronicler, who mocked the new coronavirus last May, died last night after several days of suffering from COVID-19, state radio station Radio Nicaragua reported Wednesday.
Jos? Francisco Ruiz, 75, one of Nicaragua's best-known sports chroniclers, "died on Tuesday night, after struggling for several days with COVID-19 symptoms," Radio Nicaragua said on its website.
In mid-May, Ruiz, who at the time of his death was sympathetic to the Government of Daniel Ortega and was conducting a sports program on state-owned Channel 6 television, said that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus was a "fagot," related him to the opposition, with conspiracy theories, and assured that it was prevented with homemade medicines.
"This virus is a fagot, like the 'puchitos' (opponents), look at how it is a fagot: it is killed by soap suds," he said, mockingly, in his sports program broadcast on Channel 6, and whose video is has gone viral on social media.
Although his interlocutor warned him to be careful, the chronicler stated that the coronavirus was "working for what they did", without mentioning authors.
"They say that the old must be eliminated, because the old spend a lot and they are many. The war was against the old, this virus is for the old, "he added.
Ruiz also affirmed that an acquaintance of his was relieved by "gargling salt three times a day, with lemon grass, and he took boiling water baths with eucalyptus leaves, four or five days, (and) the virus died."
These comments led to ridicule towards the chronicler, better known as “Pepe Ruiz”, who was a teacher and radio actor, before dedicating the last 48 years of his life to narrating baseball and commenting on sports, a career that earned him recognition from the Association of Sports Writers of Nicaragua.
So far, Nicaragua has officially registered 2,170 cases of COVID-19, and 74 deaths.
For its part, the independent Citizen Observatory COVID-19, a network of doctors and volunteers that records suspicious cases, records 5,957 infected, and 1,688 deceased.
The Nicaraguan Government's strategy is not to establish restrictions to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, although it does accept some social prevention measures, and it promotes crowds.
This strategy has sparked concern in organizations such as the United Nations (UN) and the Organization of American States (OAS), as well as in their units dedicated to health and human rights. EFE
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