Venezuelan baseball players inquire about asylum in Spain
- More than 20 players from Venezuela's under-23 baseball team have inquired about asylum in Spain, according to police statements made on Tuesday.
- The players presented themselves at a National Police station in Barcelona to ask about asylum procedures, confirming details from El País newspaper.
- Team Guevara's president, Julio Guevara, stated players were 'trying to fight for their permits' to join professional baseball clubs.
- The players had traveled to Italy and Spain for exhibition games, as reported in social media posts.
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Spain is studying the asylum request of about twenty Venezuelan baseball players
Like the Cuban athletes who, once abroad, abandoned their Olympic delegations in order not to have to return to the dictatorship, a Venezuelan sub-23 baseball team arrived in Spain on March 11 with the supposed objective of participating in an international tour, but have decided not to return to Chavista Venezuela . After passing through Italy, the athletes «come by plane to Madrid and Madrid have come to Barcelona and have presented themselves…
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