Why do we celebrate the 4th of July so much? Check out this story about Dodgers’ rookie phenom Yasiel Puig who recently succeeded in defecting from Cuba to the U.S. and signed a $42 million contract. Excerpt follows:
Less than two months later, Yasiel Puig landed somewhere in Mexico. Nobody will say where. Or how he got there. Or who brought him. Or whether his friends from the Vigilant came as well. One story, maybe apocryphal, maybe not, goes like this: Mexican drug smugglers ferried Puig to Cancun and held him with the understanding they would receive a cut of his contract. Puig has not confirmed this. He has not said anything about his defection, any of his previous attempts or his life in Cuba.
Is this not a great country or what. Meanwhile, U.S. defector Eric Snowden is cooling his heels in a Russian airport terminal while they discuss what to do with him. Maybe Snowden needs some Mexican druglords to intervene for him.