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My documentary 'Split Decision' examines Cuban-American relations, and the economic and cultural paradoxes that have shaped them since Castro's revolution, through the lens of elite Cuban boxers forced to choose between remaining in Cuba or defecting to America.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: America Between Boxers Castro Choose Cuba Cuban Cultural Decision Documentary Economic Elite Forced Lens Paradoxes Relations Remaining Revolution Shaped Since Split Them Through

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Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Almost Anyone Anywhere Anywhere Else Ashore Athlete Athletes Boxers Cash Country Cuban Despite Effectively Elite Else General Had Impoverished Incentive Leave Lottery Majority See Skills Small Stayed Tickets Vast Vast Majority Want Wash Were Where Why Winning World Would

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In the summer of 2007, two-time Olympic champion Guillermo Rigondeaux and his teammate, Erislandy Lara, had been arrested in Brazil after going AWOL from the Cuban team during the Pan Am Games. The defection attempt made international news and quickly became a national soap opera, regularly appearing on Cuban news and round table discussions.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: After Am Appearing Arrested Attempt Became Been Brazil Champion Cuban Discussions Games Going Had His International Made National News Olympic Opera Pan Quickly Regularly Round Soap Soap Opera Summer Table Team Teammate

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Castro branded Rigondeaux a 'traitor' and 'Judas' to the Cuban people.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Branded Castro Cuban Judas People Traitor

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A profoundly disturbing thing you discover very quickly traveling in Cuba is that the most dangerous person for Cubans isn't the police or even the secret police; it's their neighbor. Anyone can report you for anything 'outside' the revolution - even if you haven't done it yet.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Anyone Anything Cuba Cuban Dangerous Discover Disturbing Done Even Most Neighbor Outside Person Police Profoundly Quickly Report Revolution Secret Thing Traveling Very You

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Cuban athletes represent the most expensive human cargo on earth. They are sitting on over a billion dollars of human capital if these boxers and baseball players would come over to any other field or ring in the world and begin to ply their trade.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Any Athletes Baseball Begin Billion Billion Dollars Boxers Capital Cargo Come Cuban Dollars Earth Expensive Field Human Most Other Over Players Represent Ring Sitting Trade World Would

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He's the best practitioner I've ever seen of the Cuban style. But I think that what Rigondeaux sees as an immaculate performance has no corollary to what fans see as a perfect performance. In his mind, to make an opponent look terrible who has been lauded as exciting or favored against him gives him satisfaction.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Against Been Best Cuban Ever Exciting Fans Favored Gives He Him His Look Make Mind Opponent Perfect Performance Satisfaction See Seen Sees Style Terrible Think Who I Think

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My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Back Behind Certainly Cuban Culture Desperately Economic Had Homesick Hungary Left Life Mother Nostalgic Opportunity Refugee She States United United States Want

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Castro was always using his athletes as a way of symbolically defeating the United States in the ring, and after these Cubans defeated Americans in the ring, they were turning down exorbitant sums to leave the island.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: After Always American Athletes Castro Cuban Defeated Defeating Down His Island Leave Ring States Sums Turning United United States Using Way Were

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When I first asked my boxing coach, two-time Olympic champion Hector Vinent, what made the Cuban style of fighting distinct from the rest of the world, he smiled and told me to sit on a bench in Prado and watch the Cuban women walk.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Asked Bench Boxing Champion Coach Cuban Distinct Fighting First He Made Me Olympic Rest Sit Smiled Style Walk Watch Women World

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