After there have been some really crap players who took PEDs. I don’t think you have to look for someone who showed an amazing peak in their performance to be suspicious.

He looked like a flying fox.

It’s hard to get in most places and, really, in South America as a whole the main sport is soccer, which is not the best sport for juicers.

buy your own steroids with the right amount of money or a forged prescription or a legit one bought from a crooked physician. There is a reason why a large portion of all steroids are imported from Latin America and now more recently China.

Latin American ball players have been talking about the prevalence of steroids for almost 20 years now. Have you not been curious why the largest portions of the players getting hit with the 50 game suspensions are currently from the DSL teams?

In Latin America, the new frontier of baseball, they are injecting kids with steroids. Grown men are taking needles and plunging them into the backsides of 16-year-olds in the name of profit.

This is no big secret. Major League Baseball knows it is happening. It does not know how to stop it.
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"Honestly, this is an extremely difficult problem," said Rob Manfred, an executive vice president with MLB.

Over the last two months, 40 players in the Dominican Republic have tested positive for steroids. Ten more from Venezuela were caught. Most are teenagers.

The youngest was 16. His name is Braulin Beltre. The St. Louis Cardinals signed him last year, one of more than 500 kids plucked from Dominican Republic in baseball’s version of the gold rush. Teams last year spent nearly $34 million in the small island country. This year, in the week after the Latin American market opened July 2, teams spent close to $30 million on players and by year’s end will shatter the previous record.

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Baseball Urged to Fight Steroids in Latin America
By DAVID PICKER

Published: April 15, 2005

The group Hispanics Across America and a handful of New York politicians protested outside baseball’s headquarters on Park Avenue yesterday, saying that Commissioner Bud Selig was not doing enough to combat steroid abuse by minor leaguers in the Dominican Republic and other Latin American countries and that he should resign.

“We should look for another responsible major league baseball commissioner, a new commissioner, someone that’s going to care for Latin American people,” said Fernando Mateo, president of Hispanics Across America.

Mateo was joined by state Assemblymen Adriano Espaillat and Jose Peralta and city Councilman Miguel Martinez.

They protested baseball’s policies by holding a memorial service for two Dominican teenagers who died in 2001. Mateo said the teenagers had died from taking animal steroids and an animal dietary supplement in the hope of making it to the major leagues.

Testing for steroids in the Dominican league began in 2004. Of the nearly 900 players tested for steroids in the Dominican league last year, 11 percent tested positive.

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Complicating the matter is that many substances now banned under baseball’s program because they are controlled substances in the United States are obtainable over the counter in pharmacies in players’ homelands.

They can walk into a drug store at home during the offseason, pop pills until they head to Florida and Arizona in February and then turn up positive at spring training.

"Are there people buying substances in countries where the substances are legal? Yes," said Gene Orza, chief operating officer of the Major League Baseball Players’ Association. "It’s hard. It’s one of the great problems in this."

Rob Manfred, executive vice president for labor relations in the commissioner’s office, says baseball has educational programs on performance-enhancing drugs in both English and Spanish, and that there is a special program in the Dominican Republic rookie league program that provides individualized counseling from Dominicans for players who test positive there.

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This is from Oct of 2000

Latin American Connections

Officials of the federal D.E.A. said that the vast majority of anabolic steroids on the black market in the United States are smuggled from countries where the drugs are available at pharmacies without a prescription.

Mexico and other Latin American countries are major sources of the drugs. For instance, a reporter checked a dozen pharmacies in Santo Domingo and San Pedro de Macoris in the Dominican Republic, and found that 10 of them were willing to sell various versions of testosterone without a prescription.

Strength coaches in the major leagues say players often obtain steroids while playing winter ball in Latin America.

Young ballplayers at San Pedro de Macoris, a town that has produced many major league players, said it was common to find aspiring baseball players shooting up steroids. Some Dominican players said their colleagues who used steroids have often resorted to veterinary drugs, which are even easier to obtain.

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Those are just the in the top 10 when you goggle “steroid from Latin America”. This has been a long running well known problem with Latin American players. The fact that you don’t know about it rather surprises me. The next time before you even attempt to think you what your talking about the steriod issues in baseball and tell some one they don’t know what they are fucking talking about do your research. Now you just look like an ignorant fool.