Dozens of Cubans of each ages demonstrated connected Saturday connected Calle Ocho successful Little Havana, successful beforehand of nan emblematic Versailles edifice — nan nervus halfway of Cuban exiles successful Miami.
They were upset astir nan beingness of “Team Asere,” nan Cuban nationalist shot squad who is successful Miami to play successful nan semifinals of nan World Baseball Classic successful Miami connected Sunday.
Cuba’s nationalist shot team’s crippled successful Miami revives aged governmental battles
The protestation was called by nan exile group Vigilia Mambisa, which brought retired its celebrated “mambisa steamroller,” to smash bats and baseballs arsenic a awesome of “Castrocommunist tyranny,” they said.
Catalina Vázquez, who was successful New York successful nan counter-march of nan Conference for nan normalization of relations betwixt Cuba and nan United States, held connected March 12, assured that “the Cuban group do not want immoderate type of narration arsenic agelong arsenic Cuba is not free and sovereign. That is why I americium present coming pinch my family to show everyone that nan symptom of exile is respected”.
Agustin Acosta, left, and Catalina Vazquez, were among dozens of Cubans who protested astatine Versailles Restaurant against nan beingness successful Miami of nan Cuban nationalist shot squad for Sunday’s World Baseball Classic semifinal game.
Mercedes Pedregón, 62, a autochthonal of Havana, has been successful Miami for 20 years and is an activistic pinch nan statement Exilio Unido Ya.
“I americium against nan information of nan shot squad because it represents nan dictatorship and nan full Castro regime,” said Pedregón, who hopes that astatine slightest “one aliases 2 players will desert,” contempt nan power nan Cuban information forces workout against them.