LIMA: Venezuela's baseball team will not compete in the Pan American Games beginning this week, but some athletes who have escaped the country's ...
LIMA: Venezuela's baseball team will not compete in the Pan American Games beginning this week, but some athletes who have escaped the country's economic collapse will play for their adopted home of Peru, host to the 18th edition of the regional multi-nation event that precedes the Olympics.
Casas, who also plays first base and outfield, said helping Peru win a medal could shine a positive light on immigrants like him who face growing hostility as the local Venezuelan population swells to more than 800,000, nearly 3per cent of Peru's population. Unlike in Venezuela, baseball is not big sport in Peru. Most Peruvians tend to grow up playing soccer or volleyball. But Venezuelan immigrants have brought Caribbean ways of life to countries like Peru, which spans the Pacific Coast, the Andes and the Amazon.
"We rely on a lot of kids of Japanese descent. That's the bulk of our team. But these boys who are arriving are clearly going to contribute a lot because of their experience," Arias said."It's a team that's going to put up a fight."
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