A baseball title unleashes the happiness Venezuelans kept bottled up for years
There’s happiness, and then there’s Venezuelan happiness. It feels sweeter. Louder. Deeper.
Maybe because it doesn’t arrive as often. Or because it has been repressed by security forces and self-censored to avoid jail. Or because it seems collectively and individually unattainable.
But the nation felt it Wednesday. Its people cried, yelled, danced, hugged and drank after Venezuela’s 3-2 victory over the United States in the World Baseball Classic final the previous night brought out the emotion.
“We hadn’t expressed this happiness that we want to shout,” hairdresser Deyanira Machado said outside a beauty salon in Caracas, the capital.
Unlike so much here, the score on televisions across the country was final. It was not going to change in the coming minutes or days. It was not subject to interpretation. And the young and old, politically active or not, rich and poor, exhaled after holding their breath for years.
https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-world-baseball-classic-us-happiness-0c9d2879774e59c495dc185d67bf9ad1
Also just a little bit of a stick in the eye for Shitler. Notice he hasn't said thing one about it.
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