In exchange for content for their entertainment productions, Amazon Prime and TV Record decided two years ago to publicize the modest Cuban Academy by the Cuban Thomas Cabrera, the “Papi”, in Rio Pequeno, a peripheral neighborhood of São Paulo.
Amazon, who had a series with a boxer, donated some training bags, painted the Facade of Cuba Boxe, produced some decorative tracks and recorded scenes inside the Papi Academy, whose story was later shown on Rodrigo Faro’s auditorium show, then Record host.
It seemed a good time for Cuban, who always had to count on the help of friends and a former alderman active in the region, Beto do Social, to maintain the gym and, especially, the boxing classes offered free to the needy minors, several of them from the Favela do Sapé.
Maverick, Papi also managed to organize in 2023 and 2024 two half marathon races in Butantã, a will that cherished since the pandemic. It was a remarkable, very notable achievement, in fact, to someone who never belonged to the sector oligopoly, does not know fiscal waiver mechanisms or lobby in Brasilia for the maintenance of covid’s time incentive programs.
Even more remarkable for a foreigner, and perhaps even more for a Cuban, given the caricatured and unfortunate obstacles created and associated with this country.
Papi’s story was told by this columnist on the portal journalists who run and this Sheet, here.
Well, Lusitana rode, Faro and Amazon went to take care of life, the electricity bill because of the recording at the gym was a cock, the landlord, thinking that Papi was over the dirty meat, the rent increased.
Opera Summary: Papi was not dumped because the former alderman helped him liquidate the debt with the miser.
Papi is now in a smaller space, but not much, two blocks away from the first box box. The number of boys served has increased, and he was probed by judicial authorities to help them in the reintegration program of young offenders, something Papi rejoices in being able to do it.
And, of course, Papi wants to perform for the third consecutive year his half buttantã marathon – that behind he was already called “Cuba Run”, a name that, urged, found it well to change.
The date I imagined to take the race this year in September coincides with that of the Ironman of São Paulo, which completely makes their plans unfeasible, as both occupy the same avenue within USP. All this he discovered in a conversation last Saturday with this reporter. The new desired date is the Sports Sports Sunday, possibly in November.
In a time when test registrations they hit $ 500, or rather, $ 499, as is the case with the redivivative challenge of the bridge [Rio-Niterói]the less of one hundred silver that papi usually charges for their “run” even generate distrust.
I participated in the two editions of the Butantã midfielder, and the main one has always been: ambulance, water, some bananas, tolerable delays, timing. The art of the 2025 edition medal shows the outline of South America and Central America, as well as part of Mexico. Cuba, of course, was not left out. The idea is to celebrate a certain Latin American integration.
Last year, Papi wanted to take the winners of his event to compete in the Havana Marathon, but the Cuban authorities only offered networking, and the sponsors ran.
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