A youth baseball team from Venezuela has been granted visas to represent the Latin America region at the upcoming Little League World Series in Pennsylvania, according to a league spokesperson, securing exemptions from the State Department to enter the United States despite representing a country under travel restrictions instituted by President Donald Trump.
Brian McClintock, a senior executive for communications at Little League International, said in a statement the State Department notified Little League International that the Cardenales Little League team from Barquisimeto, Venezuela, “has received their visas and will be able to represent the Latin America Region at the 2025 Little League Baseball World Series.”
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