Why baseball great Miguel Cabrera can't go home to Venezuela
Miguel Cabrera speaks candidly about his Venezuelan home: ‘They’ll kill me.’
Bribes, death threats, and a political climate set to blow.
by Ashley MacLennan@90feetfromhome Jul 11, 2017, 1:30pm EDT
“They’ll break me. They’ll kill me,” he said, of returning home to Venezuela.
He was speaking to the volatile political climate in the country, where government corruption runs rampant and to vocally support protesters can put someone’s life in danger. Cabrera has spoken in the past about the situation in Venezuela, but on Monday he was the most candid he’d ever been.
In Spanish, he said, “I’m tired of paying protection money so they don’t kidnap my mother.”
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"Ultimately, Cabrera is not a politician or an opposition leader, but rather a man who loves his home, and the people who live there. When he pleads, “Please do not do anything to my family,” he is not being hyperbolic. Death threats, assassinations, and violence loom large and real in the periphery of every day life for Venezuelans, especially those willing to speak out against the dictatorship."
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