Team Castro’s annihilation at the hands of Team USA in Miami was not the only shellacking Cuba’s communist dictatorship received last night. The voices of protesters and their signs were seen and heard as far away as Havana. The protests were expected, and even the Cuban regime knew they would come. But not even efforts by stadium staff to prevent protests signs from being brought in to the game or American television’s attempts to avert their cameras from the displays of anti-Castro signs and protesters taking the field were enough to stop them from being broadcast or posted on social media.
Protestors invaded the field three times at Miami’s LoanDepot Park Sunday night during Cuba’s heavy 14-2 semifinal defeat to the USA in the World Baseball Classic.
Play was briefly interrupted in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings when three separate fans ran onto the field to protest the Cuban regime.
The first held a banner that read ‘Libertad Para Los Presos Cubanos del 11 de Julio (Freedom for the Cuban Prisoners of July 11)’ referring to the date of 2021 demonstrations.
Another ran on to the field with the Cuban flag streaming behind him, while the final one merely made a break for it before he was tackled to the floor.
Many other spectators within the stadium carried signs bearing messages such as, ‘Freedom for Cuba,’ or ‘No to communism, misery, dictatorship!’
Being unable to control crowds and quash dissent is exactly the type of situation Cuba’s communist Castro dictatorship abhors. But since this game was played in the U.S. and not in the totalitarian state of Cuba, they had no choice but to deal with it. Add in the fact Miami hosts the largest population of Cuban exiles in the entire world, the Castro regime knew they were in for a rough night, and Miami’s pro-freedom community did not disappoint.
While protests took place outside the stadium, I believe the biggest win Miami’s anti-Castro fans achieved was securing seats right behind home plate where they can hold up protest signs. The television camera angle from behind the pitcher is the one that gets the most airtime, and Miami did not let the opportunity slip by. Throughout the entire game, signs saying “Down with the Dictatorship,” “Patria y Vida,” “Freedom for Cuba,” along with a plethora of other anti-Castro slogans were being held up for the cameras. There were impossible to miss, and to the utter dismay of the Cuban dictatorship, millions of Cubans watching the game on the island at home or on the big screen TVs set up by the regime in parks and plazas didn’t miss them either.
And then you had the protesters who took to the field. On three separate occasions, the game was paused because of them. As expected, the television cameras didn’t show them and the announcers kept on talking as if nothing was happening on the field. But the approving roar of the crowd in the background let viewers know something was going on.
Throughout the game, the nearly 36,000 spectators broke out into chants calling for freedom in Cuba and an end to the tyranny of the communist Castro dictatorship.
Overall, last night’s game was not just a well-deserved win for Team USA, but it was also a huge win for democracy and freedom. Likewise, Cuba’s loss was not also a loss for the Cuban dictatorship’s Team Castro, but a loss for the communism and tyranny.
You can read more about last night’s great victory in a piece by Alejandro Avila in Outkick.
Tienen que mencionar como Arozarena pelotero Cubano no jugo de el team de Cuba pero jugo de el team de Mexico done el jugo antes de venir para USA.. No comos unos cuatro o 5 Cubanos peloteros que juegan aqui en las grandes ligas y jugaron para Cuba como Moncada, Roberts, Romero, Bolanos y Cespedes.. estos jugadores viven aqui en USA y la mayoria son millonarios pero se bajaron a jugar de el equipo de Cuba….
Hay muchos peloteros Cubanos pero esos tienen ORGULLO Y DIGNIDAD…..
Existe en ACPBP ( Association Cuban Professional Baseball Players) que querian hacer un team de Cubanos y participar y no los dejaron….