The crack of bat on ball and the sight of Venezuelan children running the bases on the soccer field turned baseball diamond on the outskirts of Peru’s capital are watched with confusion by locals accustomed to soccer. The questioning looks don’t deter the young Venezuelans for whom baseball reinforces a strong bond with their embattled homeland.
When Venezuela n children on the outskirts of the Peru vian capital hit their baseballs and throw themselves onto a soccer pitch turned diamond as they try to score points, locals find it strange. Still, the young immigrants continue to play as the sport reinforces a strong bond between more than about 1 million of them living in Lima and their embattled motherland nation by the Caribbean. The vast majority of the 10 million people living in Lima ’s region are crazy about soccer.
López believes his team had to leave one field in San Juan de Luringancho, Peru’s most populous district, because neighbors didn’t want the Venezuelans using it. When they arrived every Tuesday and Thursday to practice they would find the field mired in mud. Of the more than 7 million Venezuelans who have left their homeland during the complex crisis that has marked President Nicolás Maduro’s 11-year presidency, more than 1.5 million went to neighboring Peru, most arriving after 2017 when then-President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said they were “welcome” and would be paid for their work.
Born in the Caribbean city of Puerto La Cruz, he said his best memories of Venezuela are of sunny mornings with his father Raúl teaching him how to throw rocks into the sea like baseballs. The boy arrived in Lima two years ago and found the Astros shortly later. “We bought a couple of beers, fried bananas and started watching the matches,” she said. “I cheer for Los Tiburones de la Guaira, my son supported the Leones del Caracas just like my grandson.”
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