Cuba, Here We Come!

Come to Cuba, Bwahahahahaha!

Does this mean that you're moving back to Cuba permanently Mario? Be careful - I'm pretty sure that being gay is still a criminal offense in Cuba and since you're super gay, you'd be in trouble right away!

Good news.

THAT'S EXCELLENT NEWS!!!! Those people have been suffering for far too long!

great news, but ummmm isnt this the wrong site for this? just saying

Have a nice trip, Mario. Stay as long as you like! No, seriously, take your time coming back.

Fairystar-I'm sorry. That comment was meant for Sheriff.

Awesome!!

Well, its about time that the US starts admitting that their embargos and vindictive foreign policy towards Cuba was somewhat "misguided" to say the least. However, an island funded by remittances does not a strong society make. Also, I feel that UrMajestyMsG may be somewhat misguided about Communism, it can work, just not with dogmatic foreign adversaries. I dont mean Communism in the Stalinist sense, but rather the proper economic and social theory that extolls workers and the proletariate resistance against big business and corrupt bourgeois government oligarchies. Perhaps if you were to pick up a history book, realize that Karl Marx is not a pop singer from 1985, and take a look around places like Flint, Youngstown, Camden, etc and see where free market capitalism has taken the country, you may think differently. Then again, maybe not, after all, commies are the scum of the earth, yes?

I hope you feel good about putting more money in the Cuban government's pocket because that is where the majority of it will go. The Cuban people will never prosper because of their government. The rest of the world already trades Cuba and the people are still poor. This won't help a thing.

Re: johnnyp – May I respectfully remind you that in Cuba people get free education, including university, and free medicine. There are wonderful doctors in Cuba, many of them are in great demand from other latino countries. Get your facts straight, stop reading anti-Cuba propaganda.

Re: johnnyp – Excellent point! The end of this embargo will only benefit the corrupt government, not the people.

Re: Cleopatra – If you like Cuba so much, leave America and go there….and stay. If Cuba is so great, why are there people fleeing it to come to America? Cuba is a great country, if you ask the right people….mainly those who live off of the corrupt governemnt and support the communist regime.

Fantastic news, my grandmother just came back from visiting Cuba and my family and she said it was just horrible because everyone is so poor there and we couldn't really do anything to help, thank goodness my whole family will now be able to visit people they havent seen in 40 years & live comfortably.. You rock Obama!

OH NO!
DOES THIS MEAN WHEN WE VACATION IN CUBA WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO SEE DUMBASS IGNORANT AMERICANS NECT TO US??

SIGHS
CUBA WAS THE ONLY PLACE WHERE WE COULD VACATION, AND NO AMERICANS ALLOWED

DAMN

this news brings me to tears. I know my husband and in-laws would be excited once I tell them the news. Many of us take for granted the freedom that we have. My MIL's father recently passes away and she could not go home and bury her father and be there for her mother because of the previous law.
VIVA OBAMA!!

Re: Cleopatra – You're Canadian. You are not treated like a native Cuban when you are in Cuba.. Native Cubans can't go to certain beaches because they are just for tourists. They can't enter certain hotels unless they work there. I have no doubt that as a Canadian promoting travel to Cuba you were treated as royalty. The Cuban government is not stupid. They want foreigners to have a great time and spread the word to invest money into their dying economy. Too bad it's the native Cubans who suffer and don't reap the rewards.

Cuba is a great country and Cuban ppl are awesome people. Artists and musicians in that country train for the same length of time as doctors in this country.
How long before Cuba's shore's are once again ownd by wealthy American interests.
Sad. Who likes sharing

Better to let Cuban nationals have the right to travel

The tourist money will go prop up the Communist government.
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The people will continue to live in poverty, getting $15 a month and ration cards to half-empty stores. They will continue to work all day to try to afford a meal of rice and beans. Visit therealcuba and see the conditions the Cuban people live under. People get in makeshift rafts and die trying to get out of that worker's paradise. They want to come HERE for FREEDOM and OPPORTUNITY.
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Obama has spent his life working alongside Marxists, Maoists, and other radicals who hope to bring Cuba-like Communism to the U.S.
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We have a very sad fate in store unless the American people wake up and start resisting the grab of money and power the U.S. government is making.

Re: Cleopatra – What a crock - NO ONE is hospitalized 5 days for dehydration. You don't know what you're talking about.

I'm no historian, but back when Cuba was an open vacation party central and being turned into a tacky Vegas II , a lot of people (many who were connected) who weren't Cubans were making piles of money, and most of it was leaving the country, with very little of it going to Cubans except as hired help with tips. Fidel mirrored a lot of average, idealistic but decent and proud Cubans who weren't happy with this Vegas vision foreign ownership of their beautiful country. When he took over, a lot of foreign folks were pissed at losing their clubs and hotels to nationalization and wanted their investment back. Some (very few) of these elite were Cubans. Some Cubans disagreed with Fidel's vision, and had just started to enjoy their raised standard of living. A lot of those, and then many ordinary Cubans came to the States when the Cuban economy slumped again with the exit of the partying foreignors along with the embargo. Cuba aligned itself politically with that other powerful cold war country, Russia, to keep this influence at bay, because Cuba was small and had little influence otherwise to keep Vegas II from happening. The unacceptable soviet missiles setting up in Cuba was the eventual result, which wasn't good at all and one of the most frightening high noons of the cold war; but Cubans kept their Cuba free of this influence. Many political ideagogues saw Fidel as a saviour.

It's claimed that the 47 year old embargo now costs the U.S. more than it costs Cuba. The best thing I've read on this (google it) is from 'Dollars and Sense, Real World Economics, The Costs of the Embargo, by Margot Pepper.' It's an interesting and enlightening read.

From one Commie (Fidel) to another (Barry HUSSEIN Obama). I hope you visit Cuba, Perez. The Commies just love the gays. And contrary to some of the left wing loons on this site Communism does not work. Every major city that wallows in poverty has been run by Democrats. Democrats have done everything they can since the 60s to expand the welfare roles and therefore increase the poverty level. Welfare programs have been a cancer on this nation. Welfare has created generations of lazy good for nothings who are on the dole. It is passed from generation to generation.

Re: Cleopatra – It was a crappy situation. A lot of people didn't deserve to lose their $hirts when they got kicked out of Cuba, either. Aligning Cuba with the Soviets at that time could have started WWIII. Very scary to have those pointed at North America and within firing distance, and not OK at all, considering the height of the U.S./Soviet cold war rhetoric at that time. OOoooh, an a-ha moment. Medveded's and Putin's current objections to defence shields in neighbouring countries around Russia must invoke the same feelings in them as Americans felt when Cuban missile silos were becoming a reality and possibly pointing at them. Anyway, I support semi-factual history, rather than either side. Living here, in the 60's, I frankly would have supported that embargo, then. No missiles pointed at my head, thank you very much.

Well, after 40 yrs, this was long overdue. Going to Cuba if you are a Cuban American should of been allowed years ago! It's about time this issue was addressed!

Re: @v@ – Why the double standard ? In the eary 60's when Americans found out there might be missiles pointed at them, there were already missiles pointed at the USSR from Turkey. Part of the agreement between Kennedy and Khrouchtchev was that the missiles would be dismantled in Cuba and the missiles in Turkey as well. Why would the Russians not have the right to be worried too if missiles were pointed at them ? Why only the Americans have the right to threaten other countries ?

Cleopatra, there is no freedom in Cuba. There is poverty and oppression and no relief. People put together makeshift boats and RISK DEATH trying to escape from the slavery to the state available in Cuba. No one has to risk death fleeing from freedom.
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Castro and Che are mass murderers who robbed people of their home and life's savings in order to grab power and stay in control. People who want freedom are beaten, jailed, or shot.
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Che said, "To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate." Is this what you admire?
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Communism is EVIL. It is slavery to the state. Anyone who advocates Communism is advocating SLAVERY. Please educate yourself.
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Communism does not uplift the poor. It does not make things "fair." It oppresses people in a system that makes them slaves of the state "in the name of the people." It is a system that has killed 100 million people and has spread poverty, injustice, brutality, and oppression wherever it takes hold.

Adios, Mario.

Re: Cleopatra – You're getting sucked down that vortex, lol, where anti-commies cannot imagine living for anything other than profit, and commies point holier than thou finger at the capitalist pigs. A country with a basic and humane social safety net, but encompassing private enterprise and minimal government intervention is a good and balanced compromise. Oh. Hey. I just described Canada.