Two entries ago I wrote about my student Camilo who hopes to train at a baseball academy in the Dominican Republic. First, he needs the scouts to find him in Cartagena. Judging from this article there are the human and fianancial resources for this to happen. Scouting and grooming future MLB players is very controversial, but it also may be the only way for talent to be found. Here is more in on the subject from the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/sports/baseball/18investors.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
9/26/2010 – 10/15/2010 C1 On September 26, 2010, I arrived along with 8 others to Barranquilla, Colombia to reinstate the United States Peace Corps . We are called Colombia 1 (C1) even though there were many groups before us from 1961- 1981. Peace Corps had to shut down its programs to protect Peace Corps Volunteers’ (PCVs) safety endangered by guerilla warfare and civil unrest. Now, we are back serve to Colombia`s northern coast, but are still proud to be former PCVs from Liberia, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay, and Colombia. Our ages range from 26 to 69 years old. We are all are from different regions of the US and have different ethnicities. One PCV, Carolina, is from Bogota, Colombia, but moved to Florida when she was 17 years old and became a US citizen. Now, she is serving both the US and Colombia. Our oldest PCV, Philip, served in Colombia from 1963- 1965, returned home to be an ESL teacher in the Compton and Watts neighborhoods of Los …