Normally, all news networks, TV, newspapers and sites should dedicate their pages for him. That would probably happen if Mijaín wasn’t Cuban but an athlete from a western country, from Europe or the United States. Perhaps the mainstream media would talk much more about him if he was a “dissident”, if he had left Cuba for Miami denouncing its socialist government. In such case, he would have been viral.

But on the contrary, Mijaín is a proud representative of socialist Cuba. And, moreover, he loves Fidel Castro, to whom he had dedicated his 1st and 3rd gold medals. In his home, Lopez has hanged his medals next to a portrait of the historic leader of the Cuban revolution.