MIAMI, United States. — The senior staff of the Cuban regime has reacted “in a big way” after the victory of the Cuban team that participates in the fifth World Baseball Classic.
The success against Australia with a score of four runs to three has Castroism euphoric, and proof of this have been the reactions of the president Miguel Díaz-Canel and his wife, Lis Cuesta Peraza.
The regime’s harangue was initiated by the “First Lady” herself, who during the game called on the island’s religious to pour “water and husk” on the Tokyo Dome grass. Unusual.
“Babalaos, get active! Water and husk for the ground for the ground,” wrote Díaz-Canel’s wife, who a while later celebrated the classification of the Cuban team to the semifinals of the contest, which will be held on March 19 and 20 at the LoanDepot Park in Miami. .
“We won. We are in the semifinals!” Cuesta Peraza tweeted after Cuba’s victory.
He did the same Miguel Diaz-Canelwho linked the team’s success to the anniversary of the Baraguá protest.
“On March 15, such a Maceist day, Cuba had to win,” said the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC).
Cuba’s pass to the semifinals of the World Baseball Classic has generated controversy and division in social networks. The Antillean cast will play the semifinal against a rival yet to be defined, which will come out of the confrontation between the second in Group D, which includes teams from the United States, Mexico, Canada, Colombia and the United Kingdom, and the winner of the D bracket. , where Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Israel and Nicaragua are located.
Cuba had not advanced to the semifinals of the World Baseball Classic since the 2006 edition, when it beat the Dominican Republic three runs to one, and then fell in the final against Japan, 10-6.