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Viñales, Cuba
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EDITORS NOTE: Our friends and colleagues, Mexican photographers
Miguel and Juanita recently spent 10 days in Cuba traveling with their
good friend, Juan Blanco Arroz.
http://latinjourneys.net/2013/05/23/vinalescuba/
PDittie
(8,322 posts)And we hope to return one day very soon. The countryside looks lovely.
Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)60% of Canadians who vacation outside of Canada vacation in Cuba, mainly because it's unlikely we will ever see an American there. The most inviting thing about Cuba is no Americans.
Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)They said they dread the time the floodgates open and the US Americans storm the place and tear it up. I believe them.
I hope when it happens, Cuba will be able to control what happens to its land and people, but I'm not betting on anything.
Cuba used to be a rest and recreation area for the US Navy prior to the revolution.
Mika
(17,751 posts)Cuba controls the "floodgate", not the USA. Even when the US travel ban is finally ended, Cuba won't be able to handle the demand - not enough infrastructure to accommodate them all. It'll take time to build out what might be needed. Of course, it will be up to Cubans in Cuba to determine how much US tourism they actually want.
Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)treated with respect, the way the tourists up to this point have conducted themselves.
It should be important to screen the visa applications very well.
Mika
(17,751 posts)ocpagu
(1,954 posts)Just look at all this oppression! The desperation! All the misery and the chaos imposed by the totalitarian Stalinist dictatorship of the Castro brothers taking away the people's dignity and liberty!
And to think how much they are missing by not being allowed to enjoy the freedom and peace brought by neoliberalism and savage capitalism...
Poor fools... don't know what they are missing.
Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)unlike the people only 90 short miles away.
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