Why Did 19 Venezuelan Baseball Players Claim Asylum in Spain?
Venezuela's once-thriving baseball ecosystem has been taken over by gangs extorting academies and players, and killing those who resist.
On March 31, 19 young Venezuelan baseball players filed into a police station in Barcelona.
They had recently been on a European exhibition tour. But after spending several nights sleeping in airports and on the street, they were requesting asylum.
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