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Obama embraces baseball diplomacy

U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro wave to cheering fans as they arrive for a baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban national baseball team, in Havana, Cuba, today. The crowd roared as Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro entered the stadium and walked toward their seats in the VIP section behind home plate. It's the first game featuring an MLB team in Cuba since the Baltimore Orioles played in the country in 1999. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

¡Pleibol! President Obama capped off his 48-hour visit to Cuba on Tuesday with a final remarkable moment, taking in a rare spring exhibition game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban national baseball team in front of 55,000 Cuban and American baseball fans. Obama was greeted with thunderous applause when he entered the Estadio Latinoamericano in Havana, a welcome all the more palpable when the entire stadium went completely silent in honor of the victims of the Brussels terrorist attacks earlier Tuesday/USA Today. More here.

Question: President Obama is being criticized for attending a baseball game in Cuba. Do you think it's right that he did?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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