All in the Family, Brothers Wage War on Uncle Fidel - New York Times

“Mr. Diaz-Balart, the Florida Republican who is vice chairman of the House Rules Committee, even asked Major League Baseball to let a makeshift team of Cuban exiles and defectors play instead, a proposal that was spurned.

“It is difficult to believe,” Mr. Diaz-Balart wrote the organization, “that M.L.B. would have invited a team from apartheid-era South Africa to participate in a tournament. Yet you have invited a totalitarian dictatorship which has murdered thousands and imprisoned hundreds of thousands for the ‘crime’ of supporting freedom and democracy.”"

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