‘Our north is the south’: Softball leagues flourish in Brazilian city as Cuban arrivals outnumber Venezuelans for first time

A softball match in Curitiba, Brazil. Two leagues have been formed in the city because of the number of Cuban and Venezuelan players. Photograph: Melvin Quaresma/The Guardian

If he had been able to choose, Roberto Hernandez Tello, 59, would have gone to the United States last May, when he left Cuba in search of a better life.

However, due to Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policies, he ended up in Curitiba, in southern Brazil, 3,940 miles from his native Camagüey.