57 | Hands Off Cuba!

fight against this.

Were you guys on your trip? Were you able to also meet with anyone, like any Cuban athletes or anything like that?

We didn't meet with Cuban athletes per se, although a comrade of mine who's not on this call actually ran into the Cuban Olympic wrestling team at the airport on their way out.

But unfortunately, she's not on this call.

But we did go to a couple of us, myself and my comrade, Destiny Rivera.

We went to the different Indair local offices.

For those who don't know, Indair is kind of like the institutional apparatus for Cuban sports.

Um, and so they have a lot of street level programs for the kids to keep them off the streets, to keep them occupied and engaged.

And, um, we got to learn about a lot of those, you know, and they're highly reproducible.

I can think of a lot of communities, particularly, um, working class underdeveloped communities that really need those programs for the kids.

So that was beautiful and inspiring to see.

Um, so yeah.

And, you know, we also have the Let Cuba Play campaign, right? So that's that, that goal is to, um, is to make sure that the Cuban athletes, like any of them are granted their visas whenever they need to travel to the United States for, you know, whether it be the Olympic games or any other kind of, um, international sporting event that's going on because it's against, it's completely political.

It's completely bogus.

I mean, the U S is called the children's baseball teams, terrorists.

I mean, there's just no limits to the absurdity here.

Um, I mentioned to you earlier before we recorded, I did an episode with Belly of the Beast, one of the directors that did their little documentary on the first Cuban Little League team that played at the Little League World Series a couple years ago.

But last year they didn't get to play because Trump didn't let them.

So it was only that year and they didn't let them play this last past year.

I don't know about this year.

I'm assuming it's the same thing with what's going on.

Um, a little off topic.

I forgot to add this, uh, topic for the podcast, but since it is also sports podcast, I wanted to throw a little bit of sports in there.

Um, and that's, that's how I got introduced to hands off Cuba and all of you, uh, I met Mark Friedman.

It was because of the Hands Off Cuba campaign.