It wasn’t just A-Rod. Monday’s suspensions handed out by Major League Baseball involve 12 other players, all from Latin America. Three are from Venezuela. Anchor Aaron Schachter speaks with Alfredo Villasmil, a sports writer for Venezuela’s Ultimas Noticias newspaper, to hear about reaction to the Biogenesis doping scandal there.
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