Posted on 09/15/2014 7:19:12 AM PDT by YourAdHere
Yes, you can go to Cuba legally. Yes, you can have your passport stamped. And yes, it’s safe there. These were just a few of the questions I was bombarded with before and after I went to Cuba in July.
Going to Cuba for Americans is probably the easiest it has been in years. Under the Clinton and Obama administrations, travel restrictions have been eased.
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Guess what. Even these hardened Leftist Ani realized that they were being taken on closely monitored Potemkin Village Tours by Guide-Spies. They were lodged in camps without free access and NOT allowed to speak with any "random" natives. Their every conversation was monitored by assigned "companions."
One result of the Castro Error is that Cuba has become much more Afro-Cuban than European-Cuban, with Castro intentionally acting to remove Cuba's engine of progress, i.e., the European or at least assimilated European influence. (Hypocritically of course, the top guys are all rather European!)
Point is, if even these Obama-naut "Permaculturists" (Gluten-Free, No GMOs!) in their old Che Guevara Tee Shirts could see through the fraud, can our African-Americans be far behind? Imnagine a country run by Al Sharpton and policed by Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.
There will be hell to pay when Castro and his brother die.
Wait one. Many of the most desirable of the American Cars were long ago shipped to Europe. The Castro Regime seized them from the owners, replacing as many of them as possible with Lada's (Russian FIAT 124 of the early 1960's)
There are many left, but they will need lots of those suppliers in the back of Hemmings!
Isn't that interesting? Now we can visit innumerable cultural and historic sites in the U.S. that, showing African influence, have been turned into trash dumps.
That’s right. Building materials can only be acquired fromnthe U.S. so that’s why Cuba can’t maintain properties there.
Plus there is no Home Depot there.
Semi-Leftist but with some good points.
a great place to have dinner or a drink at the rooftop restaurant.”
…and look down your leftist, elitist, snotty nose at the oppressed citizens of Havana!
Oh no....that’s a shame. I’ve seen many a shiny ‘57 Chevy in Cuban photos. That is disappointing.
I was fortunate to be working in West Germany during the week of unification. Offices were closed so we drove into the former East Germany with a local.
We didn’t venture very far in, but it was almost surreal even though the wall had fallen well before.
The whole place smelled like a steel town in my youth because of the burning of coal. There were still buildings (usually churches) in a state of disrepair, possibly from the war or possibly that fell apart later. All the cars (usually Trabbies) were dirty and beat up and chugged around belching smoke. There were still East German soldiers wandering around - all with automatic weapons.
If I could describe it in one word, it would be grim.
Not exactly the worker’s paradise.
I went to Cuba.....in a dream. ;)
Cuba is incredibly safe. You can walk down the streets where La Flor is, where Hemingway hung out, in the middle of the night and absolutely no one will bother you. The Cubans can spot an American a mile away. They say it is the way we walk, like we own the world.
The poverty is everywhere. You can see it in the buses, they are more like cattle cars, that the people use to get around in. The rest either walk or ride bikes. The streets are full of people as all electrical usage is regulated and it is too hot to stay indoors. You have to get away from the hotels and touristy areas to see all that.
At least that’s the way it was in my dream.
Also Cuba has trade with the rest of the world. They somehow can’t get plywood & paint from Canada or Mexico?
“Also Cuba has trade with the rest of the world. They somehow can’t get plywood & paint from Canada or Mexico?”
The result of rampant communism in Cuba is poverty and dishevelment. Yet this author does the ‘Blame America first’ tirade. I wonder who she vote for? /s
She thinks the problem is OUR capitalism, not other countries’ communism or socialism. That is the error of the libs that they’ll figure out when Coward-Pivan is completed here.
Castro is the Embargo. The Embargo is there because he wants it there. It’s a scapegoat for his failed system.
Lousy Freeper Troll.
My wife is from Cuba, and she has relatives there.
All the pictures I see show the men emaciated and prematurely gray. People in their 30s and 40s look like they are in their 60s or older.
“If I could describe it in one word, it would be grim.”
I hope you saw the incredible movie,’The Lives of Others”.
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Another good movie is “Goodbye, Lenin!”. Where a mother goes into a coma, and the Wall comes down while in her coma. Her doctor advises her son that she cannot handle any shocks to her system when she wakes up. So they have to recreate East Germany for her when she awakes.
It’s one of my all-time favorite movies.
But true blacks Cuban are roundly despised by the Spanish Cubans.
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