[MeanWestTexan]

I will say that Cuba does apparently have better immigration controls that the United States.

Ironic, that, on so many levels.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

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....

[printhead]

I'll bet she's back next year.

[headsonpikes]

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

No sh*t! Sanctimonious Canuckleheads will be shocked to hear this. Shocked, but unaffected.

Somehow, they'll manage to affix the blame on George W. Bush.

[pfflier]

This must be Bush propaganda. It is Gitmo where this occurs, not the peoples paradise. How on earth did this escape the media censorship?

I expect a retraction as soon as Kennedy, Rangel, Conyers and Boxer hear that Canadians have actually experienced reality.

[68skylark]

So this woman is okay with everything that goes on in Cuba until she gets the tiniest taste of what it's like to live in a communist police state -- and all of a sudden she's got a problem with Castro?

[Hatteras]

"The jail was dirty and there was no water. I slept on a metal bed. Written on the walls were the telephone numbers of all the foreign embassies and notes about how much the prisoners had suffered," Ms. Ross said.

Worse than those silly Nazi death camps, I bet...

[My2Cents]

[ozzymandus]

She married a foriegn diplomat at the age of 19 to get the hell out of Cuba, goes back several times, and is suprised to be arrested and jailed?

[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...

[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!

[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.

[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.

[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?

[sasafras]

Coming to America - the RINOs and SCOTUS will make sure that we have no rights, no God and no freedom.

[rcocean]

She should be glad she wasn't send to Gitmo. Per Dick Durbin its even worse than Dachau.