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Why you should travel to Cuba before it looks like everywhere else
cnn ^ | 4-13-2015 | James Williams and Daisy Carrington

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]

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To: Theoria

“And, yes, the capitalistic borg will dramatically change Cuba forever, like it always does”

The funny thing is what is down there now IS capitalism. Just the fruits of capitalism flash frozen by communism and preserved. All those old ‘quaint’ buildings and cars are the undead corpse of a country in the throws of prosperity when communism killed it.
Anyone thinking, “How nice, Communism makes things look all quint” is an idiot. They preserved all all the old stuff because they couldn’t afford to do anything else.


41 posted on 04/14/2015 1:58:12 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: Citizen Zed
Americans still can't go there to just visit... we can only go on a tour that books your every moment of each day with "people to people cultural exchange" activities.

As a photographer, I would love to go and photograph the old architecture, cars, etc... but I'll wait until "normal" travel is allowed.

42 posted on 04/14/2015 2:01:35 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: dfwgator

“I’ll take one of those red headed Yolandas”


43 posted on 04/14/2015 2:06:00 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: Cementjungle

Whoa! Could that dirty dog Fidel be Elizabeth Warren's real daddy?

44 posted on 04/14/2015 2:11:54 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Citizen Zed

Hey CNN morons...that is only the part of Cuba they will LET YOU SEE. Try going off the approved roads and you’ll be arrested.

The place makes Detroit look like paradise.


45 posted on 04/14/2015 2:16:23 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The GOP is dead to me! McConnell and Boehner can drop dead!!)
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To: kevao

Beat me to it.


46 posted on 04/14/2015 2:17:48 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The GOP is dead to me! McConnell and Boehner can drop dead!!)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

When I was still in the reserves (early 90s), there was an aviator in my reserve group who worked for CNN as a journalist during the week. He was a very nice man and a favorite son, golden haired boy.He was assigned to do a story on Rhodesia for CNN. Being a recent college graduate and maybe a journalism major, he knew nothing about the history of the anti-apartheid struggle And the former glory of the country he was in. He remark constantly about how quaint the place was with the British customs. I can imagine the sympathetic stories that would come from his visit there. He honestly did not know.


47 posted on 04/15/2015 11:18:19 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

When I was still in the reserves (early 90s), there was an aviator in my reserve group who worked for CNN as a journalist during the week. He was a very nice man and a favorite son, golden haired boy.

He was assigned to do a story on Rhodesia for CNN. Being a recent college graduate and maybe a journalism major, he knew nothing about the history of the anti-apartheid struggle and the former glory of the country he was in. He remarked constantly about how quaint the place was with the British customs. I can imagine the sympathetic stories that would come from his visit there. He honestly did not know.


48 posted on 04/15/2015 11:20:05 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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