and blood! When these gentlemen understood that I was pointing the camera mostly towards them rather than focusing the fighting-cocks the mood changed and became quite aggressive.
I left without arguing. These games are illegal and I had been told that two policemen had been beaten to death a couple of months earlier at another cock-fight!
At the local sunday cock-fight somewhere in the western part of Cuba. January. 2005
At the local sunday cock-fight somewhere in the western part of Cuba. January. 2005
In a hidden place somewhere behind the “mogotes” in Viñales/Cuba passionate aficionados meet for the illegal cock-fight! Many people in this western part of the country are descendents from the Canary islands in Spain.
Cock fighting is a serious activity in Cuba. Illegal, hidden away in the forest. The participants put their entire soul in the training of the combatants. Doping, money, violence and legendary fighting cock champions.. It´s a messy business.
In a hard to reach place somewhere behind the mountains in Viñales, Cuba the men of the community gather to gamble the little money they have on the WINNER.
Håkan Rönnblad 