Posted on 12/18/2014 7:03:38 AM PST by Biggirl
NEW YORK (AP) -- Cuba was once a haven for sun-seeking American tourists. Beautiful beaches, lively casinos and late-night dancing made it the perfect getaway, only an hour's flight from Miami.
But the Cuban revolution led by Fidel Castro and the subsequent Cold War embargo of the communist island nation put an end to that.
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I hope not.The money will be used to enrich the Castro cabal and also to upgrade the prisons.
Any American that goes to lie on the blood stained sands of Cuba deserves whatever disease they contract on that fetid island.
The rich socialists in America will flock to this socialist island paradise, movie stars will be there in droves.
sign on white house “President for sale”
I’d rather fly further and go to the Philippines, where they like us and speak English.
Not until there are a lot of American-quality resorts built all over the Cuban beaches.
Let me point this out. Europeans have been in Cuba for three or four decades. There’s probably twenty different resorts which attract several thousand people a week to fly in and stay a week or two. But before you start to get all frisky over this....consider this.
What the Europeans come back and chat about are the grand resorts on the beach with barb-wire fences around them. The beaches are nice where the resorts are....but don’t go anywhere else expecting clean or great beaches.
The city streets are old and crappy. The structures are mostly places built prior to 1960. Cubans for the most part are practically broke....so they don’t have cash for nothing. Some major league US team to show up for a baseball game? Forget about charging $20 a ticket....you’d have limit it to a maximum of a dollar.
The only business angle I see expanding is health care. Once you figure out that a $25,000 operation can be done in Havana for $5,000.....you will do all your operations down there. Forget about health-insurance.
So, don’t get excited....there’s nothing much worth money there.
Perfect location for the Obama Presidential Library and BBQ
Empty out our overcrowded maximum security prisons and give the inmates a permanent vacation on Cuba’s beautiful beaches....provided they never return.
I sense and this is just my guess, I think Mr. Obama is trying to open up Cuba to the world like a certain Mr. Nixon opened up China to the world over 40 years ago. Just my guess.
Bubba will be first in line....
My sense is he wants to close Gitmo His way...I just read that the pope will help find countries for the prisoners.
Well our policy of the past 50 years has had zero luck getting rid of the Castro Regime. I say and have said for years that we should just flood them with all the evil capitalistic goodies and they will implode on their own.
I heard that Jimmy Carter is in favor of Obama’s actions on Cuba. Aren’t we all happy that Jimmy has weighed in???
Presidential Library, BBQ and paving company.
It's also easily the poorest country I've been to & vacationing there would be quite the culture shock for most.
I have no desire to see the Spanish language version.At least Kenya has interesting national parks.
Why go to Cuba? If you yearn for lovely beaches we have them here in the good ole’ USA. Florida, Hawaii, more on the east coast south of New England, plus many islands in the world that are not run by dictators are great destinations where they speak English and our money stays here!
Havana is a pit. Most of the buildings would be condemned in this country.
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