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FROM
CUBA
Dissident baseball fan kept off radio talk
show
SANTA CLARA, Cuba, January 25 (Guillermo
Fariñas, Cubanacán Press /
www.cubanet.org) - When baseball fan Raúl
Pérez Gavilán called Radio
Rebelde to give his comments on the upcoming
World Baseball Classic, the talk-show host
soon hung up when he realized the caller
was a political dissident.
When Pérez Gavilán called
Radio Rebelde's nationalwide sports show,
host Ramón (Piti) Rivera talked to
him off the air about what he was going
to say. Pérez Gavilán felt
that the 22 Cubans and Cuban-Americans playing
in the Major Leagues should be eligible
to play for the Cuban national team, one
of 16 to take part in the tournament in
March.
"The sports commentator, very nervous,
told me not to speak of the traitors of
Cuba's revolutionary sports movement, that
the team would be made up of players who
play in their native land," Pérez
Gavilán said. "Then he hung
up on me before I could make my argument.
Among the major leaguers are such Cuban
stars as Orlando (El Duque) Hernández
of the world champion Chicago White Sox,
his half-brother Liván Hernández
of the Washington Nationals and Rey Ordóñez
of the Chicago Cubs, all of who defected
from Cuba.
Pérez Gavilán is a member
of the Independent Sporting Club of the
National Association of Rafters and also
of the Human Rights, Peace, Democracy and
Liberty Movement.
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