There's some major news regarding sports in Cuba. After over 50 years, Cuba may be prepared to open up and allow athletes in the sport of boxing to box professionally.
"Our athletes are and always have been an example," Fidel Castro once said, and the word were hung over boxing gyms across the country. However, this famous expression spoke as profoundly on behalf of the athletes who left Cuba as those who stayed, in terms of the health of that system.
This is what I have tried to always explore in my film splitdecisionfilm.com. Without judging the people forced to make the decision of staying or leaving, exploring the factors involved in compelling people to make such a hopelessly impossible choice given the stakes.
Now of course, those boxers who fled the island, face a reexamination by their home. "Traitors" (and recently a very famous baseball player deemed a traitor by the Cuban state returned to Havana to see his family for the first time in 10 years) may be pardoned and welcomed back. Families may once again, finally, be reunited.
What fascinating times for Cuba...
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