ÚLTIMA HORA | VIDEO- Jugadores venezolanos de las Grandes Ligas alzan su voz contra la represión en Venezuela #8May pic.twitter.com/jDFh2WLENS
— Alberto Rodríguez (@AlbertoRT51) May 8, 2017
Thirteen Major League Baseball players added their voices to the chorus of Venezuelans abroad denouncing repression in their country.
The group is featured in a video posted Monday by Miami-based Venezuelan journalist Alberto Rodríguez on Twitter. The video, which identifies the athletes by name and team, currently has over 11,500 retweets.
“My name is Francisco Cervelli, we’re a group of Venezuelan players in Major League Baseball,” the catcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates says at the beginning of the video in Spanish. “We’re speaking not as players but as citizens, as people who love their country.”