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while playing for Venezuela on Saturday.Several hundred people gathered before the game outside the ballpark in Miami’s Little Havana section to protest the presence of the Cuban team, whose island nation has been under communist rule since 1959.
An Olympic gold medalist in 1992, 1996 and 2004, Cuba’s national team has struggled in recent years as many top players left for the Major League Baseball . Cuba failed to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Games.
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