While Cuba’s World Baseball Classic team was in the United States this week, two Cuban journalists deserted the team and their duties in order to avoid returning to the island. Yuri Boza snuck away the first day that the team arrived in Southern California. Raúl Arce, the well-known sports writer for Juventud Rebelde “disappeared” just hours before the team’s flight out of San Diego on Thursday. His last published article was on the team’s defeat by Japan Wednesday evening.
Fidel Castro, ever involved in commentary recently, called the deserters “repugnant.”
News of where Arce and Boza might be now are only rumors at this point, although Boza appeared on public television to send a message to his loved ones, expressing his regret that he could not have taken them with him.
