Posted on 9/11.
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Actually, its a glimpse of our future.
2 posted on
09/15/2014 7:21:26 AM PDT by
caligatrux
(...some animals are more equal than others.)
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“Unfortunately, many of the buildings have not been maintained, primarily due to the U.S. embargo”
Oh really.
We don’t have a blockade around Cuba.
3 posted on
09/15/2014 7:23:33 AM PDT by
lacrew
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Unfortunately, many of the buildings have not been maintained, primarily due to the U.S. embargo. Yes its true. Only in America can people buy mortar and steel.
4 posted on
09/15/2014 7:23:39 AM PDT by
LucianOfSamasota
(Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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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. Wonderful development. It would be even wonderfuller if Cubans could travel to America just as easily.
5 posted on
09/15/2014 7:23:42 AM PDT by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Havana offers several hotels and has recently remodeled many of the older hotels in Old Havana including Hotel Ambos Mundos, the hotel where Ernest Hemingway stayed before he moved to his fabulous estate just outside of Havana. This is also a great place to have dinner or a drink at the rooftop restaurant.Uhhhhhh. How were they able to remodel the older hotels what with the US embargo and all?
6 posted on
09/15/2014 7:27:20 AM PDT by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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we toured several cultural and historic sites including a senior citizens center, an organic Mural in Havana street showing African influencefarm, an experimental graphics workshop, a community center that had been a former trash dump, a health clinic, a ballet school and a reforestation project. A tour of the glories of Socialism. Great. Just what I'd want to do.
8 posted on
09/15/2014 7:28:54 AM PDT by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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It’s the “progressive” way.
9 posted on
09/15/2014 7:31:30 AM PDT by
Fester Chugabrew
(Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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Time Stops when Communism takes over
11 posted on
09/15/2014 7:34:10 AM PDT by
molson209
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“Unfortunately, many of the buildings have not been maintained, primarily due to the U.S. embargo. “
Yes, the communist system there for 50+ years had nothing to do with it.
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The comments that follow the article are utterly insipid.
Except from that one dastardly fellow who sarcastically asks how Cubans feel about their own travel restrictions and why Cuba doesn't buy its steel and other building materials from other countries.
14 posted on
09/15/2014 7:38:18 AM PDT by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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My son traveled to Cuba about 9 months ago for his work.
He said it looked like going back in time with all the old timey cars and buildings.
But for the most part the people looked as poor as dirt. Signs of massive poverty everywhere excerpt for the resort he was staying at.
My son travels to some amazing places for work, but also travels to places that I consider very unsafe. I was relieved when he landed back in the States after Cuba.
15 posted on
09/15/2014 7:38:38 AM PDT by
Aurorales
(I will not be ridiculed into silence!)
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I heard you can get a good deal on a 1959 Ford Edsel there.
16 posted on
09/15/2014 7:41:35 AM PDT by
McGruff
(I'm thinkin.)
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28 posted on
09/15/2014 8:19:29 AM PDT by
Brother Cracker
(You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box then 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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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.
30 posted on
09/15/2014 8:30:33 AM PDT by
chrisser
(When do we get to tell the Middle East to stop clinging to their guns and religion?)
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Castro is the Embargo. The Embargo is there because he wants it there. It’s a scapegoat for his failed system.
35 posted on
09/15/2014 10:02:46 AM PDT by
dfwgator
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48 posted on
09/16/2014 3:58:36 PM PDT by
RWB Patriot
("My ability is a value that must be earned and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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