Baseball

Obama and Castro in Baseball

Sports as an ice-breaker: at The end of his historic visit to Cuba, President Barack Obama visited together with Cuban head of state Raúl Castro in a baseball game. They commemorate the victims of terror from Belgium.

US President Barack Obama and Cuban head of state Raúl Castro, sat pointedly side-by-side during the playing of the national team of Cuba against the Tampa Bay Rays out of Florida. Both of them had left the ties at home, Obama came loose in a white shirt and black sunglasses. Also wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia accompanied the head of state in the 50,000 spectators filled Estadio Latinoamericano. “La Ola”waves rippled through the stadium, there were loud “Cuba, Cuba”-Call.

Two women’s choirs sang the national anthems of the two since the Revolution of 1959, the long warring States. Since the end of 2014 there are the process of rapprochement, of the learned with Obama’s visit a highlight. Before the match there was a minute of silence for the victims of the terrorist attacks in Brussels. The game was the last program point in Obama’s three-day historic trip to Havana, the first visit by a U.S. President since 88 years. In both countries national sport, Baseball. In the ‘ 70s, the United States took advantage of the rapprochement with China Sport as a diplomatic Veheikel – at that time it was table tennis.

og (dpa, afp)