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Tourists flocking to Cuba 'before the Americans come'
Houston Chronicle ^
| Mar 23, 2015
| ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and PETER ORSI
Posted on 03/23/2015 8:00:32 AM PDT by posterchild
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To: posterchild
For sure, more antique cars than anyplace in the world.
To: Sacajaweau
And more buildings collapsing.
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posted on
03/23/2015 8:05:27 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: posterchild
Bookings to Cuba jumped 57 percent for one New York tour operator in the weeks after Washington said it would renew ties with Havana. In February, they were up 187 percent; and so far this month, nearly 250 percent. Wonderful news!
Say, Andrea, Peter, how much have the bookings of Cubans travelling to New York and Washington jumped by?
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posted on
03/23/2015 8:06:01 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: posterchild
I have no desire to visit Cuba, it’s rundown and smelly. That’s what people really want to see?
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posted on
03/23/2015 8:06:03 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
One new car may ruin the whole ambiance of the 1950s time capsule.
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posted on
03/23/2015 8:07:20 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
To: posterchild
"Cuba has a very authentic atmosphere which you see nowhere else in the world," Gay Ben Aharon of Israel said while walking through Revolution Square. "I wanted to see it before the American world ... but also the modern Western world comes here." Say, Gay, how many Cubans get to travel to Israel to see the atmosphere in Israel?
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posted on
03/23/2015 8:08:01 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: posterchild
Yes, by all means let’s capture the charm and grace that is the essence of “third world shithole” before the Americans come and mess it up!
/s>
CC
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posted on
03/23/2015 8:08:12 AM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(Sufficient unto the day are the troubles therof)
To: dfwgator
—I have no desire to visit Cuba, its rundown and smelly.
Sort of like New Orleans
To: Sacajaweau
And most of them have few original parts as they’ve been kept running by cannibalizing wrecks, jury rigging, and handmade replacements.
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posted on
03/23/2015 8:09:58 AM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: posterchild
Outsiders may romanticize the "time-capsule" nation, but many on the island are ready for change.Yeah. Many "on the island" want to get the hell OFF the island.
But they can't, can they, Andrea? Nothing changes for them. They're "employers" will get paid in dollars and they will continue to receive their pay in pesos.
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posted on
03/23/2015 8:10:14 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: posterchild
The streets of Calcutta also have a very authentic atmosphere.
To: posterchild
Can I ask a stupid question?
The liberals view seems to be that our embargo against Cuba has created great hardship for the Cuban people. Supposedly living standards and economic conditions were terrible in Cuba because of our actions. By isolating Cuba as we have, it supposedly created these horrible conditions.
My stupid question is: if we supposedly are responsible for these terrible conditions there, why would liberals want to go experience the “authentic” Cuba, before McDonald’s and Starbucks and Hilton Hotels arrive? What the heck is up with these people? Shouldn’t they welcome the day when Cuba is no longer isolated, based on their own criteria????
To: posterchild
Using money to purchase food rather than ration coupons.
The horror!
To: Dilbert San Diego
You expect liberals to make sense?
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posted on
03/23/2015 8:11:29 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Dilbert San Diego
You cannot image the cognitive dissonance those people live with. It’s no wonder they are so angry.
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posted on
03/23/2015 8:12:59 AM PDT
by
SpinnerWebb
(IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
To: Sacajaweau
Get there before Greyhound "ruins it" for everyone...
To: dfwgator
Yes, I was expecting the liberals to make sense, LOL.
So what’s up? Do they really want to see Cuba brought into the modern world or not??? Or will they actually mourning the day Starbucks arrives???
To: Sacajaweau
For sure, more antique cars than anyplace in the world.
The Bodies maybe antique ,but all to other parts are old USSR tractor parts
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posted on
03/23/2015 8:15:15 AM PDT
by
molson209
(Blank)
To: posterchild
Cuba has a very authentic atmosphere which you see nowhere else in the worldOh, I don't know ... I'm thinking there are plenty of third world, socialist cesspools that have the same "atmosphere."
Hogar dulce hogar ...
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posted on
03/23/2015 8:16:35 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
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