BY CARLOS RODRIGUEZ, Related Press
A Venezuelan baseball workforce was denied visas into the US and can miss this yr’s Senior Baseball World Sequence, Little League Worldwide confirmed Friday.
The Cacique Mara workforce, from Maracaibo, Venezuela, was scheduled to take part within the event after successful the Latin American championship in Mexico.
“The Cacique Mara Little League workforce from Venezuela was sadly unable to acquire the suitable visas to journey to the Senior League Baseball World Sequence,” Little League Worldwide stated in a press release, including that it’s “extraordinarily disappointing, particularly to those younger athletes.”
The Venezuelan workforce traveled to Colombia two weeks in the past to use for his or her visas on the U.S. embassy in Bogotá.
The embassy didn’t instantly reply to an Related Press request for remark.
“It’s a mockery on the a part of Little League to maintain us right here in Bogotá with the hope that our youngsters can fulfill their desires of collaborating in a world championship,” the workforce stated in a press release. “What will we do with a lot injustice, what will we do with the ache that was prompted to our youngsters?”
Venezuela is amongst an inventory of nations with restrictions for coming into the U.S. or its territories. President Donald Trump has banned travel to the U.S. from 12 different nations, citing nationwide safety considerations.
Earlier within the month, the Cuban women’s volleyball team was denied visas to take part in a event in Puerto Rico.
“They instructed us that Venezuela is on an inventory as a result of Trump says Venezuelans are a risk to the safety of his state, of his nation,” stated Kendrick Gutiérrez, the league’s president in Venezuela. “It hasn’t been straightforward the scenario; we earned the correct to characterize Latin America within the World Championship.”
The Senior League Baseball World Sequence, a event for gamers aged 13-16, is performed annually in Easley, South Carolina. It begins Saturday.
The event organizers changed the Venezuelans with the Santa Maria de Aguayo workforce from Tamaulipas, Mexico, the workforce that was a runner-up within the Latin American championship.
“I feel that is the primary time this has occurred, but it surely shouldn’t finish this fashion. They’re going to switch us with one other workforce as a result of relations have been severed; it’s not truthful,” Gutiérrez added. “I don’t perceive why they put Mexico in on the final minute and left Venezuela out.”
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