Updated: Friday, August 23, 2013
ABC News {abcnews.go.com} on August 7th, 2013 used the above photo of Cuban right-hander Vladimir Garcia to illustrate an investigative report entitled: "U. S. Screws Cuba's International Baseball Plans." It is one of the almost-daily major headlines that demonstrates to the world America's unending self-inflicted wound for doggedly, since 1959, following a cruel and asinine policy that greatly harms millions of innocent Cubans on the island, ALL IN THE GUISE OF HURTING THE NOW 87-YEAR-OLD FIDEL CASTRO WHOM THE U. S. HAS SIMPLY BEEN UNABLE TO ASSASSINATE OR OVERTHREW DESPITE NUMEROUS ATTEMPTS FOR GOING ON SIX DECADES NOW. Programmed, propagandized Americans are supposed to accept this, and largely they have. But the rest of the world, especially the Caribbean and Latin America, is not so gullible, ignorant, or intimidated. Thus the rest of the world views the U. S. vendetta against Castro in this light: The U.S. BULLYING CUBA TO APPEASE REVENGEFUL CUBAN EXILES.
The ABC News report is an illustration:
ABC News reported that Kim Ng {above} is among the latest to join the mammoth cottage industry nefariously benefiting from America's bullying Cuban policy. She graduated from the University of Chicago and joined the front office of the Chicago White Sox. In 1997 the Yankees hired her as their Assistant General Manager. In 2001 she became the Assistant General Manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The ambitious Ng interviewed for vacant General Manager positions with the Dodgers, Mariners, and Padres but failed to be hired for the jobs. She thus left Los Angeles for New York in 2010 to take her current position as Major Leauge Baseball's Vice President for Operations.
Although Major League baseball has a myriad of problems, such as illegal drugs, VP Kim Ng seems more concerned with using her position to safely and conveniently hurt Cuba. Thus she was the focus of the ABC News report about "screwing Cuba's international baseball plans." You see, back in 1949 baseball-mad Cuba founded the Caribbean Series, an annual competition between the league champions in Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela. Cuba won 7 of the first 12 events but in 1961 Cuba ceased participation because Fidel Castro despised Rafael Trujillo, the murderous U. S. - backed dictator of the Dominican Republic. However, the other members in the Caribbean Series recently persuaded Cuba to resume its participation and then exuberantly announced that Cuba's acceptance was "a truly historic moment!" That's when Kim Ng stepped in. She fired off a callous letter to Juan Puello, the head of "La Serie del Caribe" as it is known in Spanish, warning him to remove Cuba from the 2014 Caribbean Series. She said if he did not do so the U. S. would prevent its multitude of Latin players from participating, thus negating fan interest in the event. In 2013 Major League baseball has under lucrative contracts more Latin superstars than American superstars, so Kim Ng holds a strong, if cowardly, hand.
The Caribbean Baseball Series currently consists of four strong teams from the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. The addition of Cuba, of course, would broaden and improve the competition. However, the U. S., to punish Cuba, also routinely bullies and punishes other nations that interact positively with Cuba. The Caribbean Series is an example of hurting everyone else to appease a few self-serving, tendentious Cuban exiles. It's been America's policy since 1959!
Thus Juan Puello {above} joins a long list of innocent people indulging in innocent pursuits who are forced to suffer because of a U. S. Cuban policy designed solely to sate the profitable and revengeful appetites of a handful of Cuban exiles. Juan was told by Kim Ng of MLB that his invitation for Cuba to return to the Caribbean Series that Cuba founded must be rescinded or else the U. S. will not permit its many American-contracted players to participate. Americans, unconcerned with how this makes the U. S. appear to the world and unmindful of how many innocent people suffer, also profess to be unaware of how the world, especially Latin America, views its self-inflicted wound also known as the U. S. Cuban policy.
Speaking of baseball, this photo circled around the globe multiple times on August 20th, 2013. Chris Lane -- from Melbourne, Australia -- received a baseball scholarship to attend East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. He and his American girlfriend recently returned from visiting his parents in Melbourne. Yesterday he was with his girlfriend in Duncan, Oklahoma -- 85 miles from Ada. Then he went jogging.
Now the world knows that Chris Lane didn't survive that jog. He was shot in the back and died.
Two Duncan teenagers were arrested and charged with the murder of Chris Lane. The police say one of the teens said they were "bored" and shot Chris Lane in the back "for the fun of it." A Facebook video is going viral around the world; it depicts one of the teens flashing gang signs and curse words as well as, most poignantly, a telescopic rifle. The murder is an image of America that is all too common.
Chris Lane and his girlfriend Sarah Harper had just returned to Oklahoma after visiting Australia.
Sarah told London's The Guardian, "Chris's loss is unbearable."
Chris Lane's parents, and the Australian continent, will forever mourn their baseball star.
This is one of the remembrances of Chris Lane. A leading Australian politician as well as at least two Australian newspapers are asking for a boycott of U. S. tourism because "of rampant crime in gun-happy America." Perhaps America should address that problem, using some of the time and resources it devotes to, as ABC News referenced, "screwing" Cuba, which happens to have a reputation as a safe country.
Chris Lane. R.I.P.
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