Boxing champ Edwin Valero needs a U.S. work visa
December 21st, 2009
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Edwin Valero. Photo by C. Cazzone
After the current WBC lightweight boxing champion Edwin Valero had been denied a work visa back in September, 2009, he finally fought away from the United States in Venezuela on Saturday, December 19.
Spanish-language magazine Boxeo Mundial recently reported that Valero believed his U.S. visa denial was related to his sympathy with President Hugo Chávez, a fierce critic of U.S. government. Valero has an image of Chávez tattooed on his chest along with a Venezuelan flag (see photo). Other reports dispute this, pointing to Valero’s driving-under-the-influence of alcohol (DUI) charge in the United States earlier this year.
