Another question for 2019

HAVANA – Cuba’s day-to-day problems can at times become more varied than a multi-colored crayon box. There’s Cuban baseball’s postseason currently going on, for example. We were all pleasantly surprised to hear of the agreement between the Cuban Baseball Federation and Major League Baseball in the U.S. 

The news prompted more than a few Cuban lovers of that sport, also recognized as local philosophers, to ask a number of simple, yet complex questions:

Will the opportunity granted baseball players be offered to other Cubans such as doctors and/or engineers, just to mention but a couple of professions? Will they also be given the opportunity to work, “play,” or provide services for a period of time in another country, later to have them return home quietly, as will our ballplayers graced by the Major Leagues?

“There can be no distinction between Cubans. If an artist or athlete can do it, I see no reason for others not to do so also. We have or should have equal rights,” a controversial friend of mine candidly tells me.

Certainly, in recent times there has been some flexibility on this issue. Perhaps it is a propitious occasion for this matter of family and national economic interest to be taken to the Parliament; this after watching the work of our deputies in the heat of the country’s ongoing constitutional reform.