Apparently, Fidel Castro is getting smarter with age. The Wall Street Journal reports that Castro, the controversial Cuban leader, is attempting to get the United States to drop its travel ban to Cuba in order to spark the struggling Cuban economy. And one way with which Castro attempts to boost his government is by exploiting Cuban baseball players in the MLB.
ESPN Deportes reports that Castro is considering allowing his Cuban baseball phenoms to enter the MLB. (Cuba is known for some great baseball so it would definietly boost the MLB.) Yet, nothing is quite as it seems with Castro - and the same is true here as indicated by the conditions Castro would impose on the Cuban players. The most startling is the requirement that the Cuban government would automatically take 40% of the MLB players' salaries for government use. Crazy, right? Cuban baseballers are supposed to make big MLB dollars with hard work to then support Castro's Cohiba addiction!
True, it is unlikely that the MLB or even the US would permit such an arrangement, but compromise of some kind may be on the horizon as Cuba's economy could use a boost and lifting the embargo is the way to do it.
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