Posted on 04/14/2015 11:09:17 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Edited on 04/14/2015 1:32:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Cuba is not like other places, or rather, not like anywhere that exists today.
To some outsiders, it looks firmly stuck in the 1950s. Vintage cars roam the streets, the landscape is absent of strip malls and global chains, and the buildings -- though crumbling -- hark back to a grander time.
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
Are they going to have tours — of the Secret Police prisons?
Yeah, East Berlin was a real swingin’ place before the Wall came down. /s
I don’t support communist regimes, plus I am forbidden from travelling to such. I’ll bet a good percentage of my fellow FReepers and Lurkers are, as well, and don’t realize it.
Yeah, its the same charm that North Korea has -- the charm of a country that is so poor and economically retarded by Communism that they have not advanced in decades and are living off the past. The CNN news team that reported this are a bunch of either ideologues or idiots, or both.
Hurry up and see it while you can! Its an adorable 3rd world $hithole. Its so quaint!
If there was any doubt how backwards they really are!
Cruz will roll back this insane enbrace of Cuban commnunism.
Here in Canada I could but never have and likely never will. Dittos in doing my best not to support Communist regimes.
Why not make it look like 700 AD?
The charm of extreme socialist poverty.
Perhaps we should declare Cuba an international zoological park, where socialists can be viewed, but not fed, in their natural habitat.
I’ll opt for the torture chamber tour, please. Man, they just don’t make those cattle prods like they used to.
Wait.. What...? The 50’s were a grander time...? I thought only knuckle dragging conservatives harkened back to the 50’s...
I don’t want to travel to a third world banana republic. L.A. already looks like mexico.
It's all fun until you realize Cuba is a warmer muggier Florida and those old cars lack air conditioning.
What idiot writers. What “charm?” Aside from the World Heritage improvements to Habana Vieja, the snazzy district where cruise ships land, all you see is poverty. Apparently these authors think poverty and peeling paint is quaint.
Products? Nobody has made ANYTHING in Cuba since 1956. Nothing for sale.
Maybe CNN can establish a bureau there and not cover Cuban atrocities, as CNN did in Iraq so they could keep their Baghdad bureau open. Never forget that CNN encouraged vast slaughters and horror in Iraq by not reporting these outrageous horrors.
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