Protesters gathered outside loanDepot Park in Miami as Cuba got ready to play the U.S. in the World Baseball Classic. There were demonstrations inside the ballpark too.
Cuban Americans protest the Cuba national baseball team playing at the World Baseball Classic game, Sunday, March 19, 2023, in Miami. Cuba faces U.S. in a semifinal game.
The Cuban baseball team is made up of players who defected from the island and players who live there currently and are technically government employees. It is"We don’t want them here," Joe Vilela, who fled Cuba for the U.S. when he was 14, told The Associated Press."None. People that work for the Castro family. We don’t want them. They can go any place they want. Go to New York. Go to California. Not Miami. I hope this is the last time they come here.
In the sixth inning, a protester waved a flag that said,"Libertad Para Los Presos Cubanos Del 11 de Julio." According to the AP, the message meant"Freedom for Cuban Prisoners of July 11. The message called for the freedom of protesters who were arrested in 2021 to protest the shortages of goods, power blackouts and economic hardships."We’re just here for baseball, for the sport," Johnson said."That’s what I do ... I’m not a police officer.
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