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CUBA MONSTER BUS 1

Cubans board a bus known as "camello" or camel, a huge two-section enclosed tractor-trailer in Havana, Thursday, April 10, 2008. Cuba is spending $2 billion (?1.3 billion) to upgrade its public transportation system and has imported 3,000 modern, accordion-style buses to run in and around the capital. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

CUBA MONSTER BUS 2

The driver of a public bus known as "camello" or camel, a huge two section tractor-trailer, checks its engine in Havana, Thursday, April 10, 2008. Cuba is spending $2 billion (?1.3 billion) to upgrade its public transportation system and has imported 3,000 modern, accordion-style buses to run in and around the capital. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

CUBA MONSTER BUS 3

A public bus known as "camello," or camel, a huge two section tractor-trailer, is parked at a street in Havana, Thursday, April 10, 2008. Cuba is spending $2 billion (?1.3 billion) to upgrade its public transportation system and has imported 3,000 modern, accordion-style buses to run in and around the capital. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

CUBA MONSTER BUS 4

A ticket collector leans partially out of a window as Cubans get on a bus known as "camello," or camel, a huge two-section enclosed tractor-trailer at a bus station in Havana, Thursday, April 10, 2008. Cuba is spending $2 billion (?1.3 billion) to upgrade its public transportation system and has imported 3,000 modern, accordion-style buses to run in and around the capital. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

CUBA MONSTER BUS 5

A woman looks out a window from a public bus known as "camello," or camel, a huge two section tractor-trailer in Havana, Thursday, April 10, 2008. Cuba is spending $2 billion (?1.3 billion) to upgrade its public transportation system and has imported 3,000 modern, accordion-style buses to run in and around the capital. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

CUBA MONSTER BUS 6

Cubans make their way next to a bus known as "camello," or camel, a huge two-section enclosed tractor-trailer at a bus station in Havana, Thursday, April 10, 2008. Cuba is spending $2 billion (?1.3 billion) to upgrade its public transportation system and has imported 3,000 modern, accordion-style buses to run in and around the capital. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

CUBA MONSTER BUS 7

A woman stands next to a bus known as "camello", or camel, a huge two-section enclosed tractor-trailer in a bus station in Havana, Thursday, April 10, 2008. Cuba is spending $2 billion (?1.3 billion) to upgrade public transportation and has imported 3,000 modern, accordion-style buses to run in and around the capital. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

CUBA MONSTER BUS 8

Estela Doira, center, collects bus tickets from passengers inside a public bus known as "camello" or camel, a huge two section tractor-trailer in Havana, Thursday, April 10, 2008. Cuba is spending $2 billion (?1.3 billion) to upgrade its public transportation system and has imported 3,000 modern, accordion-style buses to run in and around the capital. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

CUBA MONSTER BUS 9

A man takes a nap as he rides in a bus known as "camello," or camel, a huge two-section enclosed tractor-trailer in a bus station in Havana, Thursday, April 10, 2008. Cuba is spending $2 billion to upgrade public transportation and has imported 3,000 modern, accordion-style buses to run in and around the capital. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

1 posted on 04/19/2008 7:08:11 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
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2 posted on 04/19/2008 7:08:36 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
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We had the same thing in basic training - we called them “cattle cars”

You fought for the one of the 4 window stand up area in the middle of a Benning summer...

3 posted on 04/19/2008 7:14:47 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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Moooooooo.

5 posted on 04/19/2008 7:16:23 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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6 posted on 04/19/2008 7:17:16 PM PDT by mirkwood (Good gun control is a sharp eye and a steady hand)
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Junky smelly busses? Who cares!

Free Healthcare! Woo Hoo!

7 posted on 04/19/2008 7:18:33 PM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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I find it hard to believe that they can put 400 people in one of those cattle cars. I know it’s a communist country and all, but 400?


12 posted on 04/19/2008 7:29:53 PM PDT by bubbacluck
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A ticket collector leans partially out of a window as
Cubans get on a bus known as "camello," or camel...


Fifty years of a workers revolution...
and they still don't have free/no-ticket transportation?
14 posted on 04/19/2008 7:39:24 PM PDT by VOA
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Only in Cuba. In other countries people wouldn't put up with so much," whispered retiree Mari Gonzalez...

We get off your lazy asses and do something about it. You are 90 miles from one of the wealthiest places in the world, you have the same climate, plenty of natural resources, and you can hardly afford a penny for a bus ride. Did you ever think this whole Communism thing may actually suck???

16 posted on 04/19/2008 7:46:24 PM PDT by Onelifetogive (This is an Obama-nation!)
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The glories of the workers’ paradise. Just what HRC and BHO want to bestow upon us all. And a medical system just as carefully designed as this transportation system. My heart swells with gratitude.


18 posted on 04/19/2008 7:54:30 PM PDT by YHAOS
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Man, that communism looks sweet. No wonder many Americans want a Demorat takeover of government.


22 posted on 04/19/2008 10:49:28 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Democrats - The Original Slave Owners)
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What’s the carbon footprint of one of these things? Where’s Al Gore? Castro’s killing the planet!


23 posted on 04/19/2008 11:52:49 PM PDT by TheThinker (Capitalism is the natural result of a democratic government.)
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At the start of a camello run one morning last week, it took just over five minutes for 75 passengers to swarm up the steep steps and through the narrow doors at the rear. Doira hung out of a window to make sure no one got stuck. The doors, thin metal with sharp edges, shut with a metallic crack that sounded sharp enough to sever limbs.... Camellos have no shock absorbers, and every pothole sends a violent jolt through one's feet....With no air conditioning, the tropical heat quickly becomes unbearable, and the stench sets in — fresh sweat and body odor, mixed with exhaust and rotting food. Those seated stick their heads out of the windows.

Communist design is always anti-ergonomic. It's like they deliberately design products not to serve people, but to devour them.

24 posted on 04/20/2008 12:20:58 AM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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I feel sorry for the Cuban people. Hopefully there will be many more changes in the making. Overthrowing the dictatorship would be the first step.


25 posted on 04/20/2008 7:01:25 AM PDT by Dustbunny (Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. The Gipper)
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