Carlos Tabares Establishes Himself as a Financial Agent in Miami

The renowned former Cuban baseball player Carlos Tabares, who for years served as the captain of the Industriales team, is now engaged in the financial business in Miami, United States. Journalist Yasel Porto shared a photograph of the stellar center fielder on his Facebook wall and stated that "he continues to establish himself as a financial agent in Miami."

"We keep working hard every day to help people who need to restore their credit and educate themselves financially with my mentors, Senior Vice Presidential José A Cabrera and Senior Regional Vice Presidential Mike Burgos. We have the solution to your needs," Tabares expressed on his Instagram account, according to Porto.

According to the reporter, Tabares spends his weekends playing in various popular leagues in the city. The news elicited mixed reactions, ranging from those who were happy and wished the former player success, to many who criticized him for being in the United States after showing affinity with the Cuban government.

"Traitor and sycophant. He will do anything to be on the side of those in power, wherever he is," said a resident of Manzanillo. "I admired him until he got involved in politics and communism. I don't understand what he's doing in this country," remarked a resident of West Palm Beach. "I thought he was going to start a franchise to sell watering cans," mocked a young man, referring to when former spy Gerardo Hernández, coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), gave him a watering can as a reward for planting food in his neighborhood.

"Another clear example of the double standards he learned in Cuba and now applies in Miami," commented a resident of Pinar del Río. Tabares has been in the United States for some time. In March 2022, journalist and co-founder of the Pelota Cubana site, Yordano Carmona, confirmed that he was waiting to obtain his legal residency, just a year after receiving the "famous watering can" and declaring to Play Off Magazine that his country was "the best" to live in.

The player, who was also part of the Cuban national team, retired in 2018 with an impressive record that included 25 National Series, gold medals in the Olympics, and a second place in the 2006 World Baseball Classic. A year later, it was revealed that he was under investigation for alleged player trafficking and for giving information to a Major League Baseball franchise, something he denied in statements to CiberCuba.

His wife, Magdalis Guerra, and his sister, Bárbara Tabares, defended him, recalling his revolutionary trajectory. "He is more Cuban and more revolutionary than thousands, and he never abandoned nor will he abandon his country. His history and image will always be here," said his wife. His sister added, "The former athlete Carlos Alberto Tabares Padilla is a faithful and unconditional revolutionary, a party member since his youth, formed in the heart of this revolution with strong and defined values from childhood," on Facebook.

A few months after this controversy, Tabares traveled to Tampa, where he worked for a few weeks as a "specialized journalist" in a project by Yasel Porto to interview former baseball figures from the island who are now based in the United States, mainly in Tampa and Miami.