Comments on: Fifty Years In Hell http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/01/03/fifty-years-in-hell/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:00:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Gaius http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/01/03/fifty-years-in-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-80258 Gaius Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:42:22 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=11567#comment-80258 Or the twenty or so years of tourism money helped fill the gap left when the Soviets stopped subsidizing Cuba. Those billions helped prop up the tottering totalitarian state. In other words, shoring up a brutal regime. Or the twenty or so years of tourism money helped fill the gap left when the Soviets stopped subsidizing Cuba. Those billions helped prop up the tottering totalitarian state. In other words, shoring up a brutal regime.

]]> By: Son of a Pig and a Monkey http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/01/03/fifty-years-in-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-80257 Son of a Pig and a Monkey Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:41:55 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=11567#comment-80257 Went to Cuba in 1986 or 7 on vacation. (Not a US ciizen.) Beautiful beaches, crappy food. When one group went out in a Hobie Cat and flipped it, they had to wait for the other tourists in a Hobie to come back in so the beach-staff could sail out to help them. The whole country felt like a prison. Haven't gone back, and don't feel good about having gone at all. Anyway, Mexico and Dominican Republic generally seem cheaper. Went to Cuba in 1986 or 7 on vacation. (Not a US ciizen.) Beautiful beaches, crappy food. When one group went out in a Hobie Cat and flipped it, they had to wait for the other tourists in a Hobie to come back in so the beach-staff could sail out to help them. The whole country felt like a prison. Haven’t gone back, and don’t feel good about having gone at all. Anyway, Mexico and Dominican Republic generally seem cheaper.

]]> By: BlacqesJacquesShellacques http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/01/03/fifty-years-in-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-80253 BlacqesJacquesShellacques Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:11:50 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=11567#comment-80253 Two sides to the tourism point. Some of us, including me, think the US embargo wrong because counterproductive. "Democracy! Whisky! Sexy!" is indeed a powerful thing. I think the USSR fell because they got even a small number of TVs, computers and fax machines. Oh yeah, plus Reagan kicking their stupid asses. I say go to Cuba, buy stuff, hire people, throw around money, subvert, subvert, subvert. The USA has allowed the fascists in Cuba to make the embargo a perfect scapegoat. There are two sides to the argument and even if we are wrong we are not evil. So stuff the comments about the 'best' reasons and 'Tourism to Hell' where the sun don't shine. Two sides to the tourism point.

Some of us, including me, think the US embargo wrong because counterproductive.

“Democracy! Whisky! Sexy!” is indeed a powerful thing. I think the USSR fell because they got even a small number of TVs, computers and fax machines. Oh yeah, plus Reagan kicking their stupid asses.

I say go to Cuba, buy stuff, hire people, throw around money, subvert, subvert, subvert.

The USA has allowed the fascists in Cuba to make the embargo a perfect scapegoat.

There are two sides to the argument and even if we are wrong we are not evil. So stuff the comments about the ‘best’ reasons and ‘Tourism to Hell’ where the sun don’t shine.

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