Budo international Martial Arts Magazine Jul.-Aug. 2014 | Page 247

Interview
and Tunisia. Which are the most
important countries in karate? Egypt,
for example, although they’ve never
put forward a candidacy and they
change their president every two
years, so there’s no stability. South
Africa is another important country,
but it’s a similar story there. In the
Americas we have representatives
from the United States, Argentina,
Puerto Rico, Curaçao and Venezuela
I don’t know how important they are,
but….”
Some people have also criticised
that the Venezuelan representative,
Carmen Diaz, who’s the mother of the
champion Antonio Diaz, is not a
karateka herself, so it could be argued
that she’s not a morally legitimate
representative, politicising the WKF too
much.
“Well, I don’t know whether it’s
important or not to be a karateka,
but what’s not right is for it