By Jhonny Gonzalez
Edwin Valero will move forward with his planned trip to Cuba. He will spend a month in the country with his wife, their two children, trainer Mario Morales and adviser Segundo Lujano. He will train to get his body back into shape and spend additional time in a rehab center to overcome his alcohol problem. He was scheduled to leave on Friday but those plans got cut short after a minor traffic accident at 5am. There were no injuries but Valero was arrested, and later released, for leaving the scene. It's being alleged that Valero had alcohol in his system but none of that information has officially come from the police.
Valero has asked for police protection because he and his family are being hounded by the press. The trip to Cuba is to seclude himself in a quiet place with no distractions to train and rehabilitate himself.
"I have asked for police protection because I feel hounded by the mass media and the public in general who follow my career when I'm on the street. When I'm in my house with my wife, everything is fine. I left my house to go to a store to buy a newspaper when this accident happened. I reacted like any person would react in this kind of a situation," Valero said.
Jhonny Gonzalez covers the scene in Venezuela
