SAN FRANCISCO >> Luis Avilan says it quite simply but with his sadness evident.
“You guys have it easy right now compared to what’s going on in Venezuela,” the Dodgers reliever said, referencing the divisiveness that roils through American politics these days. “Right now my country is a mess. Everything right now is pretty much a mess. They’re kind of in the middle of a civil war right now.”
Avilan’s native Venezuela is indeed in the midst of a turbulent crisis with massive inflation, shortages of food and medicine and violent demonstrations against the government of President Nicolas Maduro.