Angel Rodriguez

Regional Editor at CalMatters. PreviouslyME at the Houston Landing, AME and Sports Editor at LA Times. Houston raised Texas Longhorn for life

[Angel Rodriguez @ajrod]

@Chron_MattYoung @MatchroomBoxing @trboxing @DAZNBoxing Thanks for continuing to cover boxing and specifically the Houston boxing scene.

[Angel Rodriguez @ajrod]

@byjoelanderson It’s also a different Texas program than the Tyrone Swoops Jerrod Heard era. Maybe we’ll get the matchup in the playoffs. But you know how scheduling works. These things are locked in decades ago.

[Angel Rodriguez @ajrod]

@AriWasserman Chess might be a bit much for Joey. This is barely checkers

[Angel Rodriguez @ajrod]

@GiancarloSopo Dad is 87 and Mom is 91. I’m hoping they get to see their day

[Angel Rodriguez @ajrod]

@HexPositive Odd that it’s the CIA there though. I have no idea what agreement could be made that satisfies the hardliners on each side. I have no idea how this ends just hoping it’s as peaceful as possible

[Stephen J. Nesbitt @stephenjnesbitt]

The Texas Rangers installed a deeply controversial statue in their ballpark concourse this spring. And they aren't willing to provide answers as to why it's there.

Yikes.

Important work from @SamBlum3: https://t.co/LCvMyrHqrk

[Angel Rodriguez @ajrod]

@HexPositive Also what kind of editor tells you to keep it under 2k words!!! :-)

[Angel Rodriguez @ajrod]

@HexPositive It would be a jumbled mess of contradictions!!!!

[Angel Rodriguez @ajrod]

@HexPositive You live with the guilt of seeing people on the island struggle and realize they could have easily been me if it for a decision made. I want to go one day but I don’t want to feel different than the Cubans on the islands because of the privileges being born in the US has given me

[Angel Rodriguez @ajrod]

@HexPositive My great uncle was one of the first to die in the fight vs Batista when he was part of a group who stormed the palace. My aunt has a photo of her holding a ‘Cuba Si, Yanquis No’ sign at a protest. So my family has been on both sides. It’s a cloud that hangs over each generation

[Angel Rodriguez @ajrod]

@HexPositive It really makes me long for a time when you can say you are Cuban and not have to pass some sort of litmus test on what ‘kind of Cuban’ you are. I want free and fair elections, freedom of press and association but I have no idea what the right way to achieve that is.

[Angel Rodriguez @ajrod]

@HexPositive My father spent a year in those same labor camps. One day he was just picked up and sent to cut sugar cane because he had put in paperwork to leave the country. My mom had no idea if he was alive of dead for six months.

[Angel Rodriguez @ajrod]

@OrtizKicks It’s good that we can actually talk about roster building again for a Houston team tho!!!

[Angel Rodriguez @ajrod]

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[Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya]

It's easy to mock the optics of the leftist activists' recent mission to Cuba. ("Fun, too!")

But there's a more basic criticism that risks being overshadowed. I haven't seen a single participant — not the young activists who went, not politicians like Ilhan Omar who support them — so much as pretend to pay any lip service to most basic, fundamental fact about Cuba: It is an authoritarian state.

The ruling Communists are the only legal political party; all others are outlawed. All candidates for office are nominated by the party, most run unopposed, and many get 99% of the vote. There is not a shred of independent media. The country has over 1,000 political prisoners, including — to take one at random — a woman sentenced to 15 years in prison for streaming images of protests on Facebook.

I'm confident that mainstream economists are correct that Cuba's Communist economy is responsible for its poverty, and that the U.S. embargo is at best an aggravating factor.

But YOU DON'T HAVE TO ACCEPT THAT to acknowledge the most basic political reality about the country. And that's simply something you have to do, if you speak publicly about Cuba, and you want what you say to have any shred of legitimacy or moral authority.

[Mayra Dominguez @MayraDo57466678]

@PabloIglesias @ytaloordonez ¿De verdad crees que los cubanos vamos a descubrir cosas que no sabíamos?
Es increíble tener que leer estas cosas.
Aquí te habla un joven cubano desde la isla. 👇🏿

[DodgersMuse @LADodgersMuse]

Paul Skenes reading The Dominican Republic lineup.

[Angel Rodriguez @ajrod]

@MJ_Busta With little information it would seem a more logical explanation is the boat already had the people they were picking up and got intercepted on the way out. Still a lot to find out