"Let them stay", the cry of the fans to Cuban players in the game against Canada

A crowd of Cubans at the island's baseball team's game against the Canadian team, held in Florida on Tuesday, shouted to the Antilleans to “stay” in the North American country, in an expression of rejection of Castroism.

With shouts of “Down with communism” and “we love you,” the group also chanted the phrase “Homeland and Life” which gives title to the song by Yotuel Romero, Gente de Zona, Descemer Bueno, Maykel “Osorbo” and El Funky, a song that calls for political changes in Cuba.

“Stay, why are you going to come back, everyone stay here. Welcome to freedom,” they say in a video shared by journalist Yusnaby Pérez on social networks. However, in the images the players remained completely silent in response to the public's requests.

The game, happened at Clover Park stadium in Port San Lucie, ended with a 6x5 defeat for the Cuban team and thus the aspirations of the Antilleans to attend the Tokyo Olympic Games faded.

Stadium security prohibited the entry of posters, but some snuck them away and showed them, a report from Telemundo. The Havana regime accused the protesters with slogans and posters of disconcerting the Cuban players.

For his part, the ruler of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, celebrated this Wednesday the attitude of the baseball team towards the expressions in the stadium.

“Vilely harassed by a handful of mercenaries, our players have put their dignity at the highest level. They have made the adversary's shamelessness more visible,” the president said on Twitter.

“A baseball player escapes, there are no Olympics, but there is #PatriaYVida and Díaz-Canel Singao and to make matters worse everything happens in Florida. The symbolic capital of Castroism continues to be destroyed. “It is now or never,” Norges Rodríguez, founder of the independent media, said on social media. YucaByte.

Rodríguez refers in his words to the case of the young Cuban baseball player César Prieto, who left the island team for the pre-Olympic tournament as soon as he arrived in Miami, in order to stay in the United States. Prieto was one of the best talents remaining in Cuba, but he decided to go his own way a few hours after the group arrived at Miami International Airport.