(OCT 13) The first Dominican
female boxer to be crowned as champion of the World Boxing
Association, Dahiana Santana, seeks to recover the normality of
a life interrupted by controversial events that deprived her of
her freedom in March this year.
A few days ago, the news of Santana Lazil’s release on parole
was announced. Two years ago, she was involved in an argument
with a neighbor of the apartment complex where she lived in
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, which resulted in violent
incidents against her and she had to defend herself. A complaint
from the aggressor of this past event with alleged extortion
interests to harm the integrity of Santana Lazil, caused her to
have to go through different prison services in the region of
Santo Domingo in an inhumane ordeal since March 2020.
The 126 lb. double queen has gone through moments of great pain
in a place that threatens to corrupt you during your
confinement. However, Santana Lazil has been able to sustain her
strength to demonstrate that values within a human being do not
bend even in times of injustice, and this is how the boxer took
the initiative to offer her knowledge to train the inmates,
which earned her respect and hope to move forward: “I didn’t
think I was in prison, I adapted quickly, I imposed my
leadership by giving practice, we had a time to exercise and
that pleased most of them and nobody wanted to hurt me anymore”,
Dahiana Santana Lazil told the digital newspaper Listin, in an
in-depth interview where she tells about all that ordeal she had
to go through.
In addition to the great boxing feats she has achieved, Santana
Lazil has also been captain of the field hockey team, she
represented the Dominican Republic in the 2003 Pan American
Games, she is an international referee and a field hockey
instructor. In amateur boxing, since she started at the age of
12, she has had about a hundred fights and by 2015 she also
became a boxing promoter to provide support to young people. She
has been named athlete of the year on multiple occasions and
even the school she attended to as a child has honored her for
her career and the physical education classes she taught at the
school where she graduated from high school.
The World Boxing Association celebrates the reunion of Dahiana
Santana with her daughter and family, who have never ceased to
demand justice by letting the first female boxer world champion
of the Dominican Republic know that in spite of everything, she
was not alone in such a difficult experience
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