Walker is quite right...->
Cockfighting is the #1 National Past Time of the DR.
It has a national governing body, it is state regulated and there is not a place in the contry with four houses that doesn't hold fights on a regular basis, at least once a week. There are newspapermen that dedicate their entire lives to covering the sport "quote". This is the ONE Dominican activity that absolutely everyone can participate in, except women of course...rich, poor, begger, thief. And before the fair sex chimes in, allow me to say that while women do go to the fights, it is not generally seen and those women that are assiduous frequenters of the fights are generally of a "questionable" character or are employees of the bar-restaurant. Yeah, I know, it is a sweeping generality...
One thing that most folks miss out on is the artisan related aspects of the cockfight: The preparation of the birds, the manufacture of the spurs, the mixing of the food. These aspects employ thousands of people all over the country..
I seriously believe that it would be easier to erradicate baseball than cockfighting....
HB
