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FROM
CUBA
Brother of Cuban baseball player who defected
banned from dominoes hall
HAVANA, Cuba, November 22 (Adrián
Leiva, Grupo Decoro / www.cubanet.org) -
The brother of baseball star Reynaldo Ordóñez,
who defected from Cuba and now plays Major
League Baseball, has been banned from a
local hall where he used to play dominoes.
As if his relationship to his more famous
brother were not enough to bring him to
the attention of Cuban authorities, who
tend to look with a jaundiced eye when one
of their prized baseball players defects,
Daniel Ordóñez is a dissident
and a supporter of the Varela project, a
citizens' initiative that seeks to bring
about some changes in Cuban government by
working within the existing legal structure.
He is also a member of the Christian Liberation
Movement.
Daniel said he was notified that he had
been banned from his neighborhood's "social
circle," or meeting hall. The man in
charge of the hall told him, Daniel said,
that the order came from the Communist Party
and from the Department of State Security.
Daniel said he has been of interest in
the past to the police, who frequently take
him in to the El Cerro police station for
questioning.
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