Posted on 12/07/2010 9:43:16 AM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative
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Flights, accommodation and excursions are included. So if you love luxury holidays and travelling in style, enter now!
The holiday will include:
• Return flights from UK to Havana from Gatwick
• Airport transfer to hotel
• Three nights at Raquel, Havana in a double room with breakfast
• A full day city tour of Havana
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
That movie was crap when it came to Cuba. They had a standard of living inthe most part on par with our own, and they had a culture in many ways superior to ours. The crime, mafia, etc was a dot on the screen that no one in Cuba noticed.
He cannot go to the beaches either, he is a pilot for American Airlines. He is not allowed to leave the airport. He sees the resorts from the air and talks to people coming and going. He also flies with some guys who have gone. All he flies is Central America, South America and the Caribbean so I take him at his word on his knowledge of those areas.
20 years ago? Looks like the Canadians recently did some major work at Havana’s airport. South Africa appears to be ginning up projects there. 16 new golf courses are being built in 2011. Qatar is building a 5 star resort there. US hotel companies have been meeting with the Cubans as well.
The Cuba for tourists and the Cuba for Cubans is vastly different, I agree. With the money pouring in there at increasing levels for tourism, the Cubans will toss the Marxists, imho.
The beach there is 20km. Spain has owned a large portion of it since about 1990, along with major hotels in Havana and a lot of other beachfront property all over the island. There have been billions of dollarsinvested in tourism for the past two decades - the profits go to prop up the huge military. No one has been overthrown and no one will be — your second hand fly over analysis is a projection of your own responses, and fails to grasp the concentration camp mentality of the population of a totalitarian society.
Good for you. They should be ashamed.
OK, here is the rest for you in hopes the stick up your butt might get dislodged. At the end of the runway are active SAM’s as well as manned anti-aircraft guns. He taxis right by hardened shelters where Mig 21’s and Mig 23’s are parked. He flew F-16’s prior to civilian life so I think he knows what he is looking at. So I left that out, sorry. It did not seem that relevant to the subject, a beach vacation.
My post stated what is absolutely true, that there are very nice resorts there, they are catering to the Europeans and the Canadians. Why did I mention this? Because it appeared that some thought all of Cuba was a run down 3rd world country. I was pointing out that the winner of the said contest would probably be staying in a luxury resort.
When did I say someone was overthrown? I never did, and had I know I was dealing with Nostradamus, I might not have attempted to analyze what the future might hold. But since the cat is out of the bag, I’ll stick to it. Capitalism will grip that country with a fury. The Marxists will be unable to stop it.
I do not claim the analysis myself, but from someone who flies into there pretty often. The funny thing is that it was you who failed here, not my grasp of the political situation in Cuba. I was commenting on the resorts that have been built for tourists going to Cuba, not Cuban politics.
You had written “the Cubans will toss the Marxists” which neans overthrow, which is a political prognistication. I disagree, based on profound and wide-ranging first hand experience there for decades. It is a concentration camp and the solution is much more complex than “caputalism”.
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