I'm watching the Cuba v the Tampa Bay Rays baseball game in Havana. They are awaiting Pres. Obama
It's quite a spectacle. As the cameras scan the stands you can see that the complexions of the people range from black to brown to lighter brown to white, all Cubans. Both presidents have arrived now and a huge choir of Cuban ladies in white are singing both the Cuban anthem in Spanish and US anthem in English — beautiful.
Many other baseball notables are there — Rachel Robinson, Jackie Robinson's widow (she's 90 and still beautifu- — black don't crack); Derrick Jeter; Dave Winfield; Louie Tiant, a Cuban and great former pitcher for the Indians and Red Sox threw out the first ball, man, this is historic.
Eduardo Perez, a Cuban American and former player here is one of the announcers. He has relatives in Cuba that he hadn't seen before. He was asked about the trip and he expressed joy and sadness in seeing his family, sharing a meal with them, and then at the diplomatic situation between Cuba and the US. Then he expressed the anger at the Castro regime that many Cubans and Cuban Americans hold.
It made me wonder if there is ever any appreciation towards the Castros and Guevara and their overthrow of the Batista regime?
I know Castro kept his grip on power much too long, unlike revolutionary Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua who eventually held elections.