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CUBA THWARTS U.S. POLICY TO PLAY IN WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC, BUT IS BARRED FROM DONATING WINNINGS TO KATRINA VICTIMS.

Publication: NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
Publication Date: 30-MAR-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
The just-played, first-ever World Baseball Classic (WBC) is an international championship originally planned to be the real World Series, after the world began to notice that nations other than the US were playing better baseball than were the teams of the US major leagues. But the games were almost scuttled after the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced in December 2005 that Cuba's application to play in the 16-team tournament had been rejected because of concerns that the Cuban government would...

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