havana/A precarious wage on the Island “which introduced virtually nothing, no sneakers, no uniform to coach in,” was a part of the the reason why hockey participant Lázaro Tolón, 27, escaped from the official Cuban delegation on 17 Could 2023, within the midst of the Pan American Video games in Chile.
The dearth of the home was suffocating. “I fought to get to the nationwide workforce, and as soon as I get there, they do not give me what I deserve. It wasn’t value all of the sacrifices he made. That is why I made a decision to depart the nation.” the athlete explains Chilean Cuban newspaper The Clinic.
Tolón, together with eight different athletes from Cuba, are ready for a solution to their request for asylum within the nation, since they fled their delegations in Could 2023. In the meanwhile they’ve short-term residence visas , which is up to date each eight months.
Tolón, together with eight different athletes from Cuba, are ready for a solution to their request for asylum within the South American nation.
Tolón’s first months in Chile took him to work as a tinker, brakeman, and guard in a automotive store. He presently has three jobs, the primary in a grocery store, in addition to being a coach on the Lo Barnechea city gymnasium and hockey on the Catholic College. There may be additionally Yordankis Méndez, his teammate on the nationwide workforce who’s a part of the group of 11 athletes who defected searching for a greater future.
The Havana Yunia Milanes, 29 years outdated, and who was the captain of the Cuban workforce, it was troublesome for his lover, Tolón, to flee throughout the Pan American Video games. With greater than 60 medals in his profession in ten years, the coaching situations had been horrible and his financial scenario had not improved, regardless of being a part of the nationwide workforce.
In Santiago de Chile, the place the sports activities authorities promised them “one other stage” lodging on the sports activities heart, the situations didn’t change. “There have been six individuals in every room, all packed collectively. We solely had one toilet for everybody,” Milanés stated The Clinic.
The younger girl, after “working working in pyjamas, as an assistant in a bakery and packing empanada and noodle dough,” went on to show hockey courses for kids from 5 to 10 years outdated aged on the Universidad Católica membership.
Within the final 14 years, 30,866 foreigners have requested asylum in Chile, in response to information from the Nationwide Migration Service
The athlete shares along with her lover and mates like Lismary González – one other of the athletes who escaped – and Yordankis Méndez, an condominium on the thirty second ground of a constructing in Estación Central.
In Chile, Cubans have discovered different choices. The hockey gamers Yadira Guillén, Helec Carta and Jennifer Martínez “had been recruited by the Outdated Reds membership, made up of former college students of Redland Faculty, in Las Condes.
Whereas swimming blind, Ortega prayedwho was a part of the Paralympic workforce and escaped in November 2023, is in search of funding to spice up his sporting profession.
The Cuban lawyer, Mijail Bonito, hopes that these athletes can be acknowledged as refugees and can obtain everlasting residence within the South American nation “As quickly because the asylum is outlined, household reunification could also be requested. Therefore the significance of the method being fast,” stated the lawyer Third.
Within the final 14 years, 30,866 foreigners have requested asylum in Chile, in response to information from the Nationwide Migration Service, requested by Transparency. Of those, 14 are Cuban athletes who fled in 2023, 11 on the Santiago 2023 Video games.
