Pacheco won the listeners' favor with his jovial, folksy and witty style.
witty style.

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Havana, May 15 (RHC)-- Outstanding Cuban narrator and commentator Roberto Pacheco, with a career spanning more than five decades dedicated to the world of sports, died Monday in Havana at the age of 81.

Winner of the 'Abelardo Raidi' Award for Lifetime Achievement granted by the Association of Sports Journalists of America, Pacheco participated in the transmission of six Olympic Games, 11 Pan American Games, an equal number of Central American and Caribbean Games and 55 National Baseball Series.

He also accumulated a hundred top-level events and since 1972 he has been one of the voices of baseball narrations in Radio Rebelde radio station.

National Radio Award 2018 and president of the Consejo Nacional de las Peñas Deportivas since 2000, Pacheco conquered the listeners' favor with a jovial, folksy and witty style.

A native of the town of Caimito, in the western province of Artemisa, he received the medals for National Culture, Martyrs of Barbados and Fight Against Bandits, in addition to the status of Adopted Son of the city of Remedios and the key to the city of Camagüey.

"We have just been physically left by the very Cuban sports narrator, Roberto Pacheco Martinez, friend and teacher. Your "tasty" charisma, revolutionary principles and passion for baseball will remain forever in the memory of the Cuban people," his colleague from Radio Rebelde, Guillermo Rodríguez, wrote on Twitter.