Cuban baseball star defects during U.S. visit: report

[Bacchus4.0]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - A top Cuban baseball pitcher has defected to the United States in the latest move by a promising young athlete to leave the communist-ruled island, according to news reports on Wednesday.

Misael Siverio, 24, left Cuba with a national team for an exhibition game in Iowa this week, but slipped out of the hotel where the team was staying late on Tuesday, the Spanish-language el Nuevo Herald newspaper reported.

The left-hander told the Florida newspaper he had defected to the United States and hoped to make a career in Major League Baseball.

"Leaving your life behind is not easy, but it's a decision that I have given a lot of thought to, and I took it for my future and for that of my family," Siverio told the newspaper.



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[Bucky]

1. Fidel Castro should thank his lucky stars for that stupid embargo.

A generation after the Berlin Wall fell down, only Cuba and North Korea are left standing. The only think that can keep Communism standing are the guns of the Kim family and American hatred of the Free Enterprise System.

[R Merm]

2. I have tickets to see them next week in NC, he could not have waited till after that game. eom

[Texano78704]

3. He will get permanent residency in the US

And the irony of Cuban-American legislators who oppose comprehensive immigration reform.

[former9thward]

4. Will the U.S. return him?

Afterall he is a fugitive.