cubaninsider: THE USA WILL ALLOW CUBA TO PLAY BASEBALL

28.12.22

THE USA WILL ALLOW CUBA TO PLAY BASEBALL

AMAZING!!

Since January of 1959 Little Cuba has considered itself a sovereign nation. That was the month the Cuban Revolution shocked the world by overthrowing the U.S./Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship.

But since January of 1959 Little Cuba has struggled to express its sovereignty because the U. S. colossus just to the north has maintained its own colossal plans for the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful nation.

But...lo and behold!!...the U. S. Cuban Headlines today -- on December 28th-2022 -- are truly shocking: "United States to allow MLB players to play for Cuba in World Baseball Classic." Incredible; I mean the U. S. IS ALLOWING Cuba to compete with the other 19 nations involved in the World Baseball Classic that starts in March, 2023. FANTASTIC!! Does this mean that someone in Washington actually believes that Cuba is a sovereign nation?????????

If the headline and sub-headline shown above is true, Cuba is suddenly a favorite to win the 20-nation World Baseball Classic starting in March of 2023!!! On level playing fields, Cuba is capable of winning the 2023 World Baseball Classic starting on March 8th when it plays its first game in Taiwan...just like Cuba won the first three Olympic Baseball Championships when the games were played on level conditions. Per capita Cuba produces the best baseball players in the world and that includes the 600 that have defected to the riches of Major League Baseball because of draconian sanctions against Cuba since 1959.

Other baseball powers such as the U. S., Japan, and the Dominican Republic {where all 30 U. S. Major League teams have lucrative year-around baseball training facilities}, of course, have recently been allowed to use Major League Players, all nations except Cuba.

Until this last week of 2022 Cuba believed the USA's worldwide influence, and its excruciating "longtime sanctions" against Cuba, would keep the Caribbean nation from competing in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

Like families in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and other Caribbean nations, Cuban fathers in Cuba begin early to train their boys to play baseball...knowing that they now can have long careers in the U. S. where star players are now making $40 million dollars A YEAR in salaries -- plus more millions of easy dollars each year from U. S. companies eager to lavish ad money on such athletes. In the Caribbean there are many poor families that have learned that a star baseball player can earn $40 to $60 million dollars A YEAR on outrageous but very legal long-term U. S. contracts!!!!

But apart from the obscene and easy money that Cuban players can get playing baseball in the United States, Cubans such as the three shown above simply love baseball!!!!

And, yes, despite the ultra-cruel and ultra-unique sanctions that the U. S. has levied on Cuba for the past six decades, Cuba still produces, per capita, the best baseball players in the world. And, yes, on level playing fields around the world Cuba can still win heralded international baseball tournaments such as the upcoming 20-nation World Baseball Classic in which teams from the Dominican Republic, U. S., Japan, Venezuela...and Cuba...will be among the favorites.

In the USA's two-Party political system, in the past six decades the Republican President Donald Trump has levied the most harsh sanctions against Cuba. But the current Democrat President Joe Biden has been slower than expected to ease the most draconian Cuban policies he inherited from Trump.

After sane and decent overtures to Cuba by two-term President Barack Obama, Major League Baseball and the Federation of Cuban Baseball signed an historic agreement in which Cuban baseball players would have the same rights as players from other nations to reach the U. S. and play pro baseball. The MLB leaders direly wanted the agreement because greedy and criminal agents and human traffickers were grossly ripping off and at times brutally treating Cuban defectors who wanted to play baseball in the Major Leagues. Everyone except the sanction benefactors loudly praised the MLB-FCB agreement. But like all other sane and decent agreements between the U. S. and Cuba since 1959, the sane and decent MLB-FCB agreement was quickly doomed by a minority of rich and powerful people in the U. S. who benefit either financially or politically from the vast and unending Cuban diaspora.

During the Trump presidency, ultra-powerful Cuban-American U. S. Senators Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez weren't about to allow the sane and decent MLB-FCB agreement to last very long. And therefore it didn't!!

Yet...at least for a few hours on December 28th-2022...the United States {see above} appeared to treat Cuba as a sovereign nation that would be "allowed to" make some sovereign decisions of its own regarding the upcoming 2023 World Baseball Classic.
Incredible!!