Unsafe at home: MLB's Venezuelan stars fleeing country

[Bacchus4.0]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2015/03/24/mlb-venezuelan-players-unrest/70373988/


Chicago Cubs catcher Miguel Montero, who has made his home in the Phoenix area since 2007, returned this past offseason to Venezuela, where most of his relatives still live.

He lasted there five days.

Uncomfortable with the rampant crime in the country with the second-highest homicide rate in the world last year, Montero renewed his passport in his native Caracas and hurried back to the USA, feeling terrible for the family members and countrymen he left behind.

"I would go from the place where I was trying to get my passport to the house and back. That's it,'' Montero said. "You want to go to your country to relax and have a good time, not to be shut inside your house because you're afraid to go out. … There are safety concerns anywhere in the world, but you watch the news about Venezuela and more people have been killed there than in Afghanistan.''

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Felix Hernandez, Miguel Cabrera, Carlos Gonzalez and Victor Martinez are a few of the prominent Venezuelans to establish permanent roots in the U.S., but it's not just star players pulling up stakes. San Francisco Giants teammates Gregor Blanco and Guillermo Quiroz have moved to Miami, a favorite destination among expatriates.

[OBenario]

1. ...

"San Francisco Giants teammates Gregor Blanco and Guillermo Quiroz have moved to Miami, a favorite destination among expatriates. "

Gosh... Florida must be infested with right-wingers.

[Bacchus4.0]

2. Are those players right-wingers? Do you know? n/t

[Judi Lynn]

3. Sad, isn't it? That's the place the genocidal maniacs, death squad leaders,fascists go to hide

after they've murdered, stolen, tortured, etc. in their homelands.

Nice place, for a sociopath.

[hack89]

4. It is also where educated professionals go for a better life.

the Venezuelan community in America is generally well educated and better off then most immigrant groups. The exodus of well trained oil industry workers to Texas is very well documented.