Half of the Cuban men's field hockey team at the Pan American Games in Toronto defected to the United States, a player and sources close to the Cuban delegation said.We can pretend that Cuba is a decent place, but the people who live there don't agree.
The sources said eight of the 16 Cuban players had deserted, while team member Roger Aguilera put the number at seven, just the latest in a rash of Cuban defections across several sports.
"Everyone knows what happened to our team, we have seven of them in the United States," said Aguilera, after the decimated Cubans were hammered 13-0 by Trinidad and Tobago.
Monday, July 27, 2015
Cuba libre
Since we've now normalized relations with Cuba, everything's great, right? Cubans have to be happy with things on their island, right? Well....
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Oh, but we lured them away with huge player salaries...oh, wait, this is field hockey. Never mind. We lured them away with more than one chicken a month.
Being a "decent place" has never been a prerequisite for diplomatic relations with the US.
Being a "decent place" has never been a prerequisite for diplomatic relations with the US.
Didn't say it was. Simply observing the Cuba continues to suck, and suck badly.
Babalu Blog has an interesting take on the role of Congressman Tom Emmer - "the clodhopper from Minnesota" - in lifting the embargo.
http://babalublog.com/2015/07/29/another-enemy-of-the-cuban-people-pushes-for-their-further-enslavement/
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