ROUGH DIAMONDS.(Little League baseball in Cuba)

Most of the time, the boys in categoria pequena--the Cuban equivalent of Little League baseball--play on days when there hasn't been a coup in Latin America, or at least not in a country that supplies a lot of oil to Cuba. Unfortunately, the Ligeritos, a team made up of kids from the Plaza de la Revolucion neighborhood of Havana, had a practice scheduled for the Sunday in April after the President of Venezuela was deposed. The uprising evaporated in a matter of days, but when I went to watch the Ligeritos play it was still fresh news, and many people were staying home and watching television reports on the crisis. Kids who wanted a ride to the practice had to wait out the ...