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The U.S. government has reversed an earlier decision to block participation in the World Baseball Classic by Cuba’s national baseball team, shown above celebrating September 2005 Baseball World Cup victory. Several countries had condemned the exclusion of Cuba and the International Baseball Federation threatened to withdraw its backing. Washington had said compensation Cuba would receive from the games violates its four-decades-old embargo against the island. Cuba announced it would donate those proceeds to victims of the social disaster in the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina. —SAM MANUEL Related articles: |