Cuba: A touching beauty

Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune ^ | 3-17-02 | Catherine Watson--Senior Travel Editor

[sakic]

They are trying to get here precisely because Castro is there. You and I both know this. You have agreed with my assessment that when Castro is gone, many more will want to come here at the beginning. One of the interesting things will be whether Cubans who have left under Castro will return as many claim they will. My guess is that the vast majority will not.

Once the initial influx is over, Cuba will be become another country with both a very rich and very poor class. Obviously this is just my opinion, just as you have yours.

American hotels will spring up in Cuba and American tourists will come. There will still be abject poverty in much of Cuba.

Certainly Cuba will be much better over all than it is under Castro but to think it will fare any differently than the rest of the region seems to be unrealistic to me. What is it to you that disinguishes Cuba from the rest of the Carribbean?

[sakic]

Relatively few foreigners hate America. You need to distinguish between their media and political elite and the "masses".

Aside from the blatantly obvious Arab world there are some others. In the majority of Carribbean countries I've been to they look at us as people who bring them some money yet they do not treat us very well. Most who hate America do so because they live in poverty and are jealous of what they perceive as all of us being rich.

America is by far the most hated and loved country in the world.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Money, lots of money.

I formulate my opinion on past history, and facts that I have readily available to me.

The fact that Cubans pre-Castro built a solid economy, and the fact that post-Castro they created tremendous wealth as immigrants, is sufficient basis to believe that what was done once there, and once here, will be done there once again. There is no need to migrate back to Cuba to accomplish this, it will be done from here.

The sugar families of Cuba are still in the sugar business today here in the US, and they will return to grow cane there. They will introduce 40 years of modernization and return the island to its rightful place among the sugar giants in the world.

[Free the USA]

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[GuillermoX]

"America is by far the most hated and loved country in the world."

I agree with this, but other countries are not on peoples radar screens, for the most part. I do agree most Arabs and Muslims hate us, but the % of people who hate us in Europe and S America is pretty small.

[sakic]

I hope your assessment is more correct than mine.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Me too bro.