"Hey, Yankees, get out of here, you losers!"
A lean, dark-skinned boxer from the Cuban team yelled at Link as they passed by.
"What are they shouting?"
Jones Fullos looked confusedly at the team's translator.
"Fuck! It sounds like they're calling us Yankees, should we hit them?"
Morales puffed up his muscles and said angrily.
The translator hesitated and looked toward the head coach, unsure whether to translate.
The United States and Cuba are neighboring but hostile countries, with the former being capitalist and the latter communist.
Since the 1960s, the United States had imposed trade blockades, embargoes, and economic sanctions on Cuba and orchestrated the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Cuba grew close to the Soviet Union and in 1962, sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis, almost igniting World War III.
In 1980, Cuba also quietly sent 150,000 drug traffickers, the mentally ill, convicts, drug addicts, prostitutes, and thieves to Miami.
