To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
The Communist government in Cuba spends all the money it has on putting on a nice facade for tourists, especially in Havana. But when you get out into the Eastern part of Cuba, away from the towns, people live like this (via an article on DallasNews.com from yesterday's Dallas Morning News):
Most parts of Cuba I've seen make Mexico's worst parts look like Heaven. And I've seen a lot of both countries.
19 posted on
07/14/2003 6:53:45 AM PDT by
Texas_Dawg
("...They came to hate their party and this president... They have finished by hating their country.")
To: Texas_Dawg
I admit I only got to Havana. I can't tell much about the first photo, by the way, thank you for sharing, the second photo is very interesting. It looks like something that one will find in the interior of Panama. That thatched wooden house and the foliage and banana trees are out of Panama. I am totally guessing at the following: It wouldn't surprise me to learn they have lived that way since before Castro.
To: Texas_Dawg
By the way, are you sure you didn't take that photo in Panama?
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