{"id":110952,"date":"2026-03-02T04:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/cuba-confirms-2026-world-baseball-classic-challenge-despite-visas\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T04:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:58:17","slug":"cuba-confirms-2026-world-baseball-classic-challenge-despite-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/cuba-confirms-2026-world-baseball-classic-challenge-despite-visas\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Confirms 2026 World Baseball Classic: Challenge Despite Visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Cuba Confirms its Participation in the 2026 World Baseball Classic<\/h2>\n\nThe Cuban Baseball and Softball Federation announced this Sunday its participation in the 2026 World Baseball Classic, despite the difficulties presented by the denial of visas to eight members of its delegation by the United States.\n\nThe federation issued an official statement where it calls the decision &#8220;discriminatory and politicized.&#8221; In it, it is pointed out that the affected delegates had important roles assigned by the tournament organizers, as did the representatives of other countries.\n\nFaced with this situation, the Federation redistributed the responsibilities of the members who will not be able to travel among the available staff, including members of the technical team. According to the entity, this represents an operational and competitive disadvantage for the Cuban team.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>\u201cWe will not give up on a tournament we have been a part of since its first edition. Our will to compete and do so with dignity prevails,\u201d the federation expressed in the statement.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Cuban Baseball and Softball Federation<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe Cuban team is scheduled to travel soon to the state of Arizona, where they will continue their final preparation before the start of the tournament, which will take place from March 5 to 17. The venues for the championship will be Miami, Houston, San Juan and Tokyo.\n\nThe National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (Inder) also expressed its disapproval of the US government&#8217;s decision, considering it an act of aggression that seeks to hinder the Cuban team&#8217;s participation in the tournament.\n\nCuba will compete in Group A of the tournament, along with Puerto Rico, Colombia, Panama, and Canada.\n\nThe island&#8217;s sports authorities have indicated that the team&#8217;s goal is to match or surpass the fourth place achieved in the 2023 edition of the World Baseball Classic.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba Confirms its Participation in the 2026 World Baseball Classic The Cuban Baseball and Softball Federation announced this Sunday its participation in the 2026 World Baseball Classic, despite the difficulties presented by the denial of visas to eight members of its delegation by the United States. The federation issued an official statement where it calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[4629,2669,7700,2010],"class_list":{"0":"post-110952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-cuba","10":"tag-visas","11":"tag-world-baseball-classic"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}