Cuba Champions, US evasion

Dear Comrades, The one item today consists of two articles from the New York Times, forwarded to me by a Cuban comrade. The articles are about the baseball tournament that is scheduled to take place in the USA from March 3rd to 20th (i.e. coinciding with the 3rd anniversary of the occupation of Iraq and the world-wide peace activities on that occasion). The US treasury says that the Cubans can’t be paid. The Cubans say: fine, we are amateurs; give the money to the Katrina victims. The Cubans are the world champions in baseball. Read on … Yours in struggle, Dominic Links (1): Cuba Offers to Play Baseball for Katrina Victims, NYT (2 articles, 4 pages)