[Luis Gonzalez]

"This means that Cuba's revolution is being corrupted from the bottom up, with greenbacks gnawing at it from underneath..."

I don't know where to begin.

I guess the only one not to blame for the complete failure of Cuba's economy, is the man running the show for over 40 years.

When we traded openly with Cuba, it was called exploitaion, when we do not trade with Cuba, it's deemed to be oppresive.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

[Luis Gonzalez]

I am writing a letter to the editors in regards to this article. I am going to tackle just one subject out of the many available here: the fact that Castro brags that everyone can read, yet they are not allowed to read what they want.

I challenge each and every one of you to do the same. Just a short note taking this political editorial by a travel editor apart.

Luis

[Cincinatus' Wife]

"The old men are too frail to schlep luggage at hotels. And the old women can't seductively sidle up to foreign men and whisper enticements in their ears -- something you can see on any busy street, any day or night, in Old Havana… Other old people pick up a few dollars by begging around Havana's exquisitely restored historic buildings, like those on the Plaza de Armas and the Plaza Viejo.…Beggars aside, a tourist runs into examples of the corrupting power of dollars literally every day and in unexpected places. ……….. Education and health care typically combine to lower birth rates all over the world, but those achievements weren't what struck me most. It was how peaceable everyone was together."

Barf! This writer is a fool and a tool for Castro. If anyone can stomach more of this rot, check this from the Boston Globe.

Cuba's lessons on caring for children--Let's hope it can and that as more Americans visit Cuba's shores, we can learn something from the Cubans - about how to raise our kids here, how to instill in them self-respect and cultural pride, and how to give all of them a chance to be happy, creative, and productive adults.

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So while the island nation is 90 miles from Florida, and just about everybody seems to have a relative in the States, Cuba might as well be half way around the world like China, a Communist country we do trade with.

This writer needs to read the posts to this: Why is China OK, but Cuba 'enemy'?

[The Great RJ]

I can't believe it.. Cuba was supposed to be the worker's paradise .. the great utopia imagined by college professors in all the ivy league universities ... perfect socialism. I'm devastated. </sarcasm

[Slyfox]

"It's too bad we didn't have a war with your country," one younger man said wistfully,
during a conversation about such hardships. "Vietnam is doing pretty well."

After Castro dies, if the new regime even hints at better relations with the U.S., Cuba will
probably get all the McDonald's and Walmart's they can stand.

[tbg681]

Cuba: Paradise as envisioned in news rooms, faculty lounges, the upper reaches of the Democrat Party, and other places of "progressive" thought.

Said Churchill: "Utopian dreamers...and socialist nightmares"

[sakic]

Soon Castro will die and things will get marginally better for Cubans economically. Then they'll hate America just like the rest of the Carribbean.

I won't give my money to any of those countries anymore. Five trips to many different countries, including a honeymoon, and I've yet to find one where they like Americans. For the most part, almost all of their economies are in the toilet despite their living under capitalism. The poverty throughout the Carribbean is staggering.

As a friend of mine put it, "Go to Hawaii. It's a prettier version of the Carribbean where they won't all hate you."

Cubans will have their freedom, no small deal, but their lifestyles will change little, if at all.

[GuillermoX]

"This means that Cuba's revolution is being corrupted from the bottom up, with greenbacks gnawing at it from underneath..."

That's just about where I stopped reading, and started skimming.

And if this moron believes Cuba has free health care, she's living in a fanatasy. Cuba has free health care like I have free gold nuggets in a box outside my house. Whoever wants one can take one, but the catch is that there are never any in the box, but they are still free.

I have an uncle who is a Lt. Col. in the Cuban secret police. He still extols the revolution (in his monthly requests to his Miami relatives for all sorts of medicines).