"Last week, the U.S. government announced it would not let a team from Cuba play in the World Baseball Classic, because Cuba would be 'making money' from the tournament in violation of U.S. laws."
Today, the Cuban Baseball Federation responds:
Money is not the motive adduced by the OFAC for our interest in competing. We are a federation of a modest but dignified country; our only proposal is to cooperate so that baseball can continue to develop and attain its reinsertion in the Olympic Program in the near future. We have never competed for money.
With the objective of offering options, the Cuban Baseball Federation would be disposed to the money corresponding to its participation in the Classic to be destined to the victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans."
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