Trump administration ends MLB/Cuba baseball deal

That's the way, more sanctions. Washington has a weekly quota on how many sanctions to place on nations. Either suffer under Washington's  heel or we will put sanctions on you or topple your government or invade you.

The old way of players defecting to reach the MLB is not the way to go. Top players like Yasiel Puig had to be spirited out of Cuba by boat all the way to Mexico (less likely to be turned back by the Coast Guard), then guided to a U.S. entry port, at obvious personal risk and loss of money to shady smugglers.

“First negotiated by the Obama administration”

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