A qualifying Little League baseball team from Venezuela has had their dreams of competing in the World Series dashed as they were denied visas less than a month after the Trump admin levied new travel restrictions.
A Little League baseball team from Venezuela has been denied visas into the US, leaving them unable to play in the Senior League World Series in South Carolina, officials said Friday.
Little League International announced in a statement that the Cacique Mara team couldn’t “obtain the appropriate visas” to head the tournament after first traveling to Colombia two weeks ago.
The team, which hails from Maracaibo, Venezuela, was expecting to participate in the Senior League World Series in Easley after winning the Latin American Little League championship in Mexico on June 16.
Senior League Baseball celebrated the Venezuelan victory, writing in a social media post, “See you all in 40 days for the first pitch!”
Now, Cacique Mara has lambasted Little League officials following the disappointing announcement and their failure to secure passage to the States.
