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Chicago, U.S. (AP) - White Sox manager Ozzie
Guillen thinks Major League Baseball's steroids
investigation is unfairly targeting Latino
players.

Guillen was interviewed by several officials last
season, and he said they repeatedly focused their
questioning on players from Latin America.

"I meet with, like, five people," Guillen said. "
The only thing that made me upset was they tried
to mention too many Latino players. I think they
try to put the Latinos to be the bad cloud in
this thing. This thing was bugging me because
everything they asked me (was), 'Do you ever see
this in Venezuela?'"

Guillen said asking whether players were
importing steroids from their native countries
was unfair, considering BALCO is based in
California.

"They were like, 'You never see any of the
players bring this thing to the States?'" Guillen
said. "I said, 'Wait a second, BALCO is not (in)
Venezuela, is not (in) Puerto Rico, is not
Dominican, is not (in) Mexico. BALCO is in
California. Then why do you keep blaming players
from Latin America for the problem that we have
in the States?'"

An Associated Press review in 2005 determined
that half of the players suspended that year were
born in Latin America.