Champion woman boxer knocks out hate in Central America

“Knock out hate,” declares Yokasta Valle who has suffered discrimination both for being a woman in a male-dominated sport and as a migrant who journeyed to Costa Rica from Nicaragua. 

“Many of my colleagues told me that if they, as men, could not become champions, even less so could I as a woman,” she says. “There is nothing that women cannot do. As I always tell the girls: take those speeches of hate and discrimination as fuel to…