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Visiting Cuba Feels Like Going Back in Time (AFRO Reports)
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| 9/11/14
| Pat Wheeler
Posted on 09/15/2014 7:19:12 AM PDT by YourAdHere
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Posted on 9/11.
To: YourAdHere
Actually, its a glimpse of our future.
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posted on
09/15/2014 7:21:26 AM PDT
by
caligatrux
(...some animals are more equal than others.)
To: YourAdHere
“Unfortunately, many of the buildings have not been maintained, primarily due to the U.S. embargo”
Oh really.
We don’t have a blockade around Cuba.
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posted on
09/15/2014 7:23:33 AM PDT
by
lacrew
To: YourAdHere
Unfortunately, many of the buildings have not been maintained, primarily due to the U.S. embargo. Yes its true. Only in America can people buy mortar and steel.
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posted on
09/15/2014 7:23:39 AM PDT
by
LucianOfSamasota
(Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
To: YourAdHere
Going to Cuba for Americans is probably the easiest it has been in years. Under the Clinton and Obama administrations, travel restrictions have been eased. Wonderful development. It would be even wonderfuller if Cubans could travel to America just as easily.
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posted on
09/15/2014 7:23:42 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: YourAdHere
Havana offers several hotels and has recently remodeled many of the older hotels in Old Havana including Hotel Ambos Mundos, the hotel where Ernest Hemingway stayed before he moved to his fabulous estate just outside of Havana. This is also a great place to have dinner or a drink at the rooftop restaurant.Uhhhhhh. How were they able to remodel the older hotels what with the US embargo and all?
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posted on
09/15/2014 7:27:20 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: lacrew
Yea, but there was/isn’t any way to get 0 down variable rate building improvement loans in there so they can be improved, default and then get repo’d by a bank...
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posted on
09/15/2014 7:27:41 AM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: YourAdHere
we toured several cultural and historic sites including a senior citizens center, an organic Mural in Havana street showing African influencefarm, an experimental graphics workshop, a community center that had been a former trash dump, a health clinic, a ballet school and a reforestation project. A tour of the glories of Socialism. Great. Just what I'd want to do.
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posted on
09/15/2014 7:28:54 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: YourAdHere
It’s the “progressive” way.
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posted on
09/15/2014 7:31:30 AM PDT
by
Fester Chugabrew
(Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
To: lacrew
Unfortunately, many of the buildings have not been maintained, primarily due to the U.S. embargo
Oh really.
We dont have a blockade around Cuba.
They can’t get to Home Depo. :-D
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posted on
09/15/2014 7:32:51 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: YourAdHere
Time Stops when Communism takes over
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posted on
09/15/2014 7:34:10 AM PDT
by
molson209
(Blank)
To: YourAdHere
“Unfortunately, many of the buildings have not been maintained, primarily due to the U.S. embargo. “
Yes, the communist system there for 50+ years had nothing to do with it.
To: caligatrux
I know the US embargo has had impacts there. However, what’s with all the ‘50s cars, for example? Do we mean to say that Cuba couldn’t import cars from other countries? Because of an embargo by the U.S.? The Soviet Union subsidized Cuba for decades. Didn’t the Soviets take care of their comrades in Cuba? If not is that somehow America’s fault?
Why no mention of income equality in Cuba? Cuba has been a leader in fighting income inequality. Unfortunately the masses of Cubans are very poor but they are equal in being poor and having no money.
To: YourAdHere
The comments that follow the article are utterly insipid.
Except from that one dastardly fellow who sarcastically asks how Cubans feel about their own travel restrictions and why Cuba doesn't buy its steel and other building materials from other countries.
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posted on
09/15/2014 7:38:18 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: YourAdHere
My son traveled to Cuba about 9 months ago for his work.
He said it looked like going back in time with all the old timey cars and buildings.
But for the most part the people looked as poor as dirt. Signs of massive poverty everywhere excerpt for the resort he was staying at.
My son travels to some amazing places for work, but also travels to places that I consider very unsafe. I was relieved when he landed back in the States after Cuba.
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posted on
09/15/2014 7:38:38 AM PDT
by
Aurorales
(I will not be ridiculed into silence!)
To: YourAdHere
I heard you can get a good deal on a 1959 Ford Edsel there.
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posted on
09/15/2014 7:41:35 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(I'm thinkin.)
To: Aurorales
“I was relieved when he landed back in the States after Cuba”
Actually communist countries were/are relatively safe. Those governments are very jealous of their monopoly on violence and crime and severely punish those who step on their toes.
To: lacrew
Unfortunately, many of the buildings have not been maintained, primarily due to the U.S. embargo
Drywall, paint and concrete are apparently available exclusively in the United States.
Who knew??
To: McGruff
“I heard you can get a good deal on a 1959 Ford Edsel there.”
The Cubans are sitting on a veritable gold mine of automobiles...if only they could get them to the Barrett-Jackson Auction in Arizona.
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posted on
09/15/2014 7:51:57 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: Buckeye McFrog
The Castros should give the Palestinians a ring. They seem to have a source for cement.
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posted on
09/15/2014 7:59:29 AM PDT
by
lacrew
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