Trump administration aims to stop professional baseball deal with Cuba

[Judi Lynn]

Source: McClatchy

BY FRANCO ORDOÑEZ
DECEMBER 29, 2018 02:46 PM,
UPDATED 10 HOURS 17 MINUTES AGO

WASHINGTON
The Trump administration is expected to take steps to block a historic agreement that would allow Cuban baseball players from joining Major League Baseball in the United States without having to defect, according to an official familiar with the discussions.

The administration wants to reverse an Obama-era ruling that says the Cuban government doesn’t run the island’s professional baseball league. Such a position gave MLB space to negotiate and reach the deal with Cuban baseball and circumvent the U.S. embargo against Cuba.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, who vowed to fight the deal between Major League Baseball and the Cuban Baseball federation, has been pressing the State Department to review the 2016 ruling and asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo personally to rule that the Cuban government controls the island baseball league and therefore nullify the deal.

“The deal between MLB and the Cuban Baseball Federation is both illegal and immoral,” Rubio told McClatchy. “This terrible one-sided agreement will only enrich the regime and further exploit the Cuban people.”


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[snort]

1. Proof that Cuba doesn't have any dirt on tRump.

Slackers.

[UpInArms]

2. Rubio is such an ass

And tRump is more than pleased to destroy all things Obama

[xxqqqzme]

3. Rethugs just can't get over that

little island. They will get in bed with every other communist/dictator. What a shame.

[Lonestarblue]

4. Sheer stupidity on display again.

From a viewpoint of national security, is it better to open doors economically and diplomatically with an island 90 miles off our coast or slam those doors and give Russia the opportunity to insert itself with the Cubans again, which they’re already doing? The massive incompetence of this administration and the head-in-the-sand attitudes of some Republicans toward Cuba is beyond malfeasance.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Perhaps Rubio & tRump would prefer China cosying up 90 miles off shore? . . . nt

[Curtis]

6. And yet Venezuela

The GOP seems to have no problem with Russia basing nuclear bombers in Venezuela, but God forbid we allow an Obama policy that allows some poor Cuban baseball players to make it big in the Major Leagues here in the US.

I am so sickened by these fuckers (sorry but no other word fits them)

[ancianita]

7. More of his bad-neighbor bullshit. End the fuckin' embargo. Live and let Cuba live.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

8. Just another trmp "Fuck You" to brown people.