Since January of 1959 Little Havana in Miami has been a rich and powerful political force in the USA as it leads the six-decade-old fight to overthrow the Cuban Revolution. Amazingly, it hasn't succeeded but has as of today -- March 24th-2023 -- it has succeeded in accomomplishing things such as starving, depriving, and making miserable generations of Cubans on the island.
And, of course, this headline this week reveals -- in late March of 2023 -- more misery for Cubans on the island that apparently cheers Little Havana's Counter Revolutionaries.
Natural disasters such as Hurricane Ian coupled with man-made disasters such as the Little Havana-promoted U. S. Embargo/Blockade continue to devastate Cuba's vital crops and its overall economy.
Despite struggling with a blockaded and largely depleted economy, Cuba somehow maintains an exceptionally strong and ultra-modern Television-Radio News operations, such as today's National TV Newscast shown above.
Cuba's ubiquitous TV News Stations focus on live reports featuring everyday Cubans across the island, and live reports from its Parliament as shown above. Such reports reflect the moods of everyday Cubans as well as Parliamentarians such as Carlos Enrique Gonzalez who are still upset with how Team Cuba was so rudely treated in Little Havana-Miami in the semi-finals of the World Baseball Classic.
In the 20-nation, wildly popular and widely televised World Baseball Classic that spanned 13 days this month, Team Cuba thrilled Cubans by winning the 5-team Pool A in Taiwan and then surviving the Quarterfinals in Japan, and then had to fly to Little Havana/Miami for the Semi-Finals.
Led by the Chicago White Sox's and Team Cuba's switch-hitting Third Baseman Yoan Moncada, Cuba was the biggest surprise of the 2023 WBC...till it arrived in Miami for the Semi-Finals. As TV baseball fans in Cuba saw, Yoan Moncada, along with other WBC All-Stars such as Japan's superman pitcher-hitter Shohei Ortani, finished the World Baseball Classic being placed on the WBC All-Star Team.
In both Taiwan and Tokyo Team Cuba and Yoan Moncada, and their fans -- including Yoan's wife and daughter -- were treated well. But in Miami facing Team USA in the WBC Semi-Finals, Cuban fans including this woman and girl were chased out of their seats by anti-Team Cuba zealots.
The two photos directly above show Cuban fans in the stands in Miami having insults and water being hurled at them. Of course, the Team Cuba players saw this happening up in the stands as they tried to play against Team USA.
This photo shows Team Cuba in red uniforms in the top of the First Inning taking a 1-0 lead over Team USA and Team Cuba still had no one out with the bases loaded!! But as you see above, the Cuban player on First Base and the Cuban First Base coach were watching play being stopped while security forces were moving an anti-Team Cuba protester off the field. Even with the 1-0 lead and still having a huge threat, how did having on-field protesters halting play make the Cuban players feel in the hostile atmosphere in Miami...a city in which Team Cuba should not have been forced to play Team USA. After that quick 1-0 lead, Team Cuba went on to lose this game 14-to-2.
Despite what happened in the Semi-Final game in Miami, Team Cuba still had a hugely successful participation in the 20-team World Baseball Classic in 2023...finishing 4th behind only Japan, the USA, and Mexico.
But Team Cuba and Yoan Moncada were treated unfairly when they had to play the Semi-Finals of the 2023 World Baseball Classic in Little Havana-Miami.
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