A Cuban Holiday From Hell

The Globe & Mail (Canada) ^ | 6-27-05 | Marina Jimenez

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Well...they do make some pretty good cigars.

[TFine80]

Sounds like a typical liberal...

Loves communism until they see the horror first hand.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

Methinks the lady in this article MIGHT want to get a copy of this timely book....

[Brilliant]

Personally I suspect that it's not so much tweaking the US as it is simply that they want to make a profit by doing business in a country where they don't have to compete with American businesses. Same with Europe.

Though they are perfectly willing to let us THINK that money has nothing to do with it, and that they are simply more enlightened than the US.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

Aren't you being a little bit picky? I understand that he recently gave every Cuban housewife a free rice cooker for mother's day.

You're right...


Oh Fidel we are not worthy....(gag) ;-)

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

Though they are perfectly willing to let us THINK that money has nothing to do with it, and that they are simply more enlightened than the US.

"Enlightened" is the key word....there are so many Canadian citizens and politicians walking around up here with their inflated egos that I often wonder how in the world they get their big heads through doorways!

[gridlock]

The level of unintentional humor in this piece are just astounding...

"They held me for five days while they investigated the case and they didn't let me call a lawyer," Ms. Ross said from her Ottawa home. "It was an undignified way to be treated over essentially a bureaucratic mix-up. When you're in Cuba you have no rights whatsoever."

Well, duh! lady! It's FReekin' CUBA!

She also said she was manhandled by her jailors and suffered bruising and scrapes. But worst of all was the psychological trauma. "This is what a police state is like."

Yes. Very, very much like a police state. Almost indistinguishable from a police state, even...

[gridlock]

Sometimes it is not enough to be "Not the United States". What does Canada stand for, except for not being the United States?

[PureTrouble]

For all those vacation people that like to travel to other countries. This article is representative of what not to do.

When you get to the other countries immigration area, do not, I repeat do not get into a shouting match with an official. If they still offer you a way to get back to your country after you finish that nice conversation, take it. Because you will not want to spend your week in a jail.

No sympathy here. She yelled at an official and she had her vacation resort changed to the prison.

[BenLurkin]

"When you're in Cuba you have no rights whatsoever"

Well . . . duh!

[jonascord]

Let me guess:

Chapter 1

You are SO screwed!

The End

[TNCMAXQ]

Sen Durbin is outraged at this situation and will issue a scathing criticism of the Cuban commies....

....In our fantasies.

[Aquinasfan]

I say any "El Presidente" who has to routinely give 4-5 hour speeches to prove how "important" they are is a knife and a spoon short of a full place setting....

It's hard to imagine.

[Americanexpat]

She should have made reservations at Gitmo, its on the same island. She would have gotten better food, rooms are cleaner and room service is great. She can play volleyball with the boys wearing the orange suits.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Except that she would be gang-raped and beheaded.

[MRMEAN]

She shared a cell with a Cuban-American who also lacked the proper entry documents, and a Mexican woman engaged to a Cuban. The Mexican woman had been denied entry because officials didn't believe her relationship with her fiancé was genuine.

Another Mexican trying to sneak into Cuba.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

It's funny how people who are members of the Liberal Party are so eager to placate the most seemingly illiberal creatures, hunh?

[KneelBeforeZod]

"I'm a canadian. your mickey mouse laws do not apply to me"

[Blood of Tyrants]

"They held me for five days while they investigated the case and they didn't let me call a lawyer," Ms. Ross said from her Ottawa home. "It was an undignified way to be treated over essentially a bureaucratic mix-up. When you're in Cuba you have no rights whatsoever."

What is she whining about? Is she now going to claim that she didn't know that Cuba was run by a totalitarian regime?

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

When you're in Cuba you have no rights whatsoever...This is what a police state is like.

In other seemingly counterintuitive recommendations, Ms. Ross warned off prospective tourists hoping to vacation in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, which she described as being "very disorderly," or the Comoros, which-according to Ms. Ross-has a "very volatile, unstable political situation."

In a future issue of "Inside Asia" she will advise readers of the perils of vacationing in Chechnya and Dagestan, where the hidden dangers of being blown up by an improvised explosive or being beheaded by jihadis is "higher than you would customarily expect in that part of the world."