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- Billiam627, on 10/10/2007, -38/+218Nice pics, but keep your social commentary.
"This here is a picture of Arkansas. As you can tell all Americans wave confederate flags and are poor. Also they are very sad, I know that because I said so." - skoops, on 10/10/2007, -17/+185"These are sights that are rarely seen by Westerners."
What a piece of crap. AFAIK only U.S. citizens are prohibited BY THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT to travel to cuba, the rest of the world can travel freely - MrBigWords, on 10/10/2007, -28/+188'Westerners'? You mean Americans. Canadians go down there all the time. And although some of those pictures may not be flattering, I'm told its the one of best parts of the Caribbean.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -41/+152"The pharmacy has about 6 different products and not very many of each of those. The people have basically no access to medicine.
Cuban hospitals for Tourists are well stocked."
but but but but Michael Moore said................ - techweenie, on 10/10/2007, -13/+120Looks nicer than New Orleans.
- noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -3/+90Cubans... are westerners.
- RadC, on 10/10/2007, -6/+77Cuba is one of the most beautiful islands in the Caribbean. "These are sights that are rarely seen by Westerners" is misguided statement. Every western nation is free to travel to Cuba for vacation except of course the US.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -11/+77"These are pictures of America I too in Miami. As you can see, all Americans are thin. Most everyone speaks Spanish."
"These are pictures I took in downtown Detroit. As you can see, all Americans are poor blacks who deal drugs because they have no other opportunities."
"These are pictures I took in Beverly Hills, CA. As you can see, all Americans are rich, drive expensive cars. You can see them spending vast amounts of money on clothing in this store on Rodeo Drive." - swrostmore, on 10/10/2007, -7/+64Comments are stupid - "Security camera at a hotel? OH NOE POLICE STATE!111111"
- norman619, on 10/10/2007, -15/+71You obviously have never been to Cuba. Since I have family in Cuba I have been there many times. These photos are not propaganda. This is what Cuba is like. I wouldn't expect someone like you to really care to learn the truth. You go on believing life in Cuba is better than what it is.
- moojj, on 10/10/2007, -25/+76I seem to recall it having something to do with nuclear missiles. Unfortunately Cuba backed the wrong team during the Cold War, and now they are paying for it.
- notorious., on 10/10/2007, -13/+61Agreed. The photos are great, the comments are not.
I thought the country was beautiful after being there for a month. But to each his own I guess. - everymahn, on 10/10/2007, -6/+53"rarely seen by Westerners" is completely inaccurate (and very closed-minded).
Brits, Italians, Canadians and a host of other visitors from western countries go to Cuba all the time.
Why is it that Americans can visit communist China but not communist Cuba? - JAVandiver, on 10/10/2007, -9/+49"Oh, so the island's not for sale, eh? Well, will you at least permit us to live in your socialist paradise?"
- Arakkus, on 10/10/2007, -4/+37Being a Canadian, I have traveled to Cuba many times for vacation. Proposed to my wife there and we honeymooned there as well. Anyhow, you cannot compare Cuba to countries such as ours, that is a ludicrous thing to do. When compared to other nations in the Caribbean Cuba is doing very well. In Jamaica tourists are rarely even allowed to enter the capital due to crime. Cuba is very safe and friendly. My wife and I traveled all over the island and we found the people to be quite content with their lives, we got invited into many homes and shared meals with several families on our trips. Is Cuba a socialist paradise...hell no. But it is not as bad off as we are told. I have many photos of ordinary Cuban homes that show that most outside of Havana live much better, Havana is run down and there are a lack of funds for repairs.
- mitchellk, on 10/10/2007, -21/+54Cuba can trade with every other country in the world. Unfortunately, the communists have run the nation's once prosperous economy, once effective health care system and once productive agricultural sector into the ground. The blame lies with Castro, not Bush or any American.
- gwrongo, on 10/10/2007, -5/+36Uhhh.... Cubans are Westerners too. And as was already mentioned, only Americans aren't allowed to go there - everyone else is.
Also (as mentioned before), the pics are nice but the commentary is pretty worthless. - sodoh, on 10/10/2007, -3/+34It is easier to take a stand if you start from one particular point in time. Your neglecting the fact that the USA basically had the mafia running cuba before they were turfed out. Also Castro did at one time (before going to Russia) go to the USA to ask for aid. The USA had a great chance at that time to change things for the better. What did they do? Tell Castro to get lost because the president was playing golf. They even recorded the incident by the US media.
And people wonder why he went to the Russians instead.
Castro is certainly no angel, but the USA could of handled a lot of things better back then. - superfusion, on 10/10/2007, -4/+34My family visits Cuba every year. It's a wonderful vacation spot with world class resorts. For anyone outside the United States, Cuba ranks with Cancun Mexico and Jamaica.
If you grew up in Russia in the 1970's-1980's, you might believe that the United States is a cess pool ... and you'd be wrong. So you if you live in the United States, and your government won't let you fly 55 miles to experience beautiful vacation resorts, beaches and culture ... don't assume that you're not the victim of propaganda. Yes, Cuba is not a democracy and it is poor, but it is a wonderful place for people from all over the "western world" to spend their money. - schlurp, on 10/10/2007, -23/+52yet they still have the same life expectancy as fatass americans
- fuzzmeister, on 10/10/2007, -19/+48Moore was using Cuba as an example of how shameful it is that a relatively impoverished country can have medical care rivaling the care that many US citizens get. Their lack of drugs is because the whole country is poor (thanks both to us and Fidel), not because a socialized medicine system doesn't work.
- bluejaypsu, on 10/10/2007, -8/+32We really have created much of the economic system. why can't US citizens visit Cuba? We can visit Venezuela, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan? And those places are dictatorships. How does stopping the exchange of ideas help promote democracy? Things are looking up though. A great site to learn more about the battle to allow people to visit their family members in Cuba: http://www.wola.org/cuba
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -12/+35Where do those life expectancy figures come from... Oh right, the Cuban government.
- DesertFlyer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23I agree. There are daily flights to Cuba from Toronto that fly right over the US every single day.
- Scruffydan, on 10/10/2007, -7/+29Cuba is full of tourists... just not Americans, and it is one of the nicest places I have ever been to.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scruffydan/collections/72157600202165287/ - Myonosken, on 10/10/2007, -3/+24I logged in to say the same thing. My mate came back with a ***** of Cuban cigars. I personally cannot believe a supposedly modern country has maintained an embargo on a perfectly alright country, ok it has problems but where doesn't, yet does bugger all about Darfur.
- mlostracco, on 10/10/2007, -1/+228 out of 10 tourists are Canadian and the rest are predominantly from the UK, but us Canadians love going to Cuba...sorry to say that a big part of that is because there are no American tourists. And believe you me -- Canadians are treated like royalty there.
It's an amazing, beautiful country with major political problems, but the Cuban people are probably some of the warmest I've ever seen in all my travels, and it definitely is one of the nicest countries in the Caribbean.
Some of my shots from this year:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mlostracco/sets/72157594468125661/ - Zippo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20The embargo was created because of the cold war, Cuba's association with the USSR, and the missile crisis. Since the US government was, and still is, so gosh-darn against communism, they've kept the embargo... I imagine it'll continue to exist until Castro dies and (if ever) Cuba becomes a democracy.
That said, America has no embargo against Communist China... silly hypocrites. - Metalmoon, on 10/10/2007, -12/+32those pics look nicer than the ghettos in the US
- LastVisibleDog, on 10/10/2007, -8/+28Did you actually look at the pictures of the socialist utopia or did you just spew forth based on the title and your inner seething hate? Bush has nothing to do with the Cuban embargo (it was started by Democrat Saint John F. Kennedy. In this country there is not good excuse for the ignorance you demonstrate.
- cudgel13, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19I am an American and I've just returned from Cuba in June. I traveled on a legal license to do humanitarian business with Alimport in Havana. There is a difference between run down and dirty. Cuba is run down. It is also one of the most beautiful countries I have ever been to. When the Cubans find out that you're an American you are treated like royalty. Even so, they are just about the kindest and most gracious people I've met. And if you speak to them in private, they do want change. But they have no access to any information, and they certainly do NOT want to be utterly Westernized.
- novusopiate, on 10/10/2007, -4/+22The commentary is unnecessary.. and frankly inaccurate... If you want to see the real Cuba, get the hell out of Havana. Go to Matanzas or Veradero. At least then you may see something that accurately reflects Cuban life. Havana is like any other large city. It has slums (New York doesn't have any of those do they?) It seems that this is all people photograph. Next person who goes down to "prove the ***** of Cuba" please go somewhere besides the damn capital. Or just give me the money and I'll fly down there and buy some cigars for myself.....
//love Matanzas...beautiful city with amazing people - schlurp, on 10/10/2007, -7/+25yes, someone else told him sth that goes against your brainwashing pattern -> he must be retarded. Makes perfect sense. I guess if I told you that Cuba is one of the best parts of the Carribean that would make you retarded. But why be redundant.
- Theisos, on 10/10/2007, -16/+34The best parts of which Caribbean? The Caribbean of Cuba? I live in the Caribbean. Cuba is probably only ahead of bloody Hati.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17and, from what I have heard, if an american goes to cuba via a third country, all he has to do is ask that his passport not be stamped.
- sodoh, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18Not sure why you got so many diggs because your kind of wrong. They can trade with any other country however it doesn't work the other way around. Any country/business doing business with Cuba looses import/export rights to the USA unless they have government approval to do so. Not only that the company would get moved onto the embargo list as well and any other company doing business with them likewise.
Other countries have similar laws. China for example will stop doing business with any company that lists Taiwan as a country in any documentation.
Also anyone interested in history. A UK company back in the 80's broke the embargo, or tried to. The CIA had their ship of cars rammed in a UK port and the ship sunk. This is from released MI5 reports some years back. - mlostracco, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17Says the American whose current economy depends on cheap manufacturing from Communist China and natural resources from Canada.
- Phyltre, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18Isn't that illegal?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17Yes and no. One can go to a third country, renounce one's citizen ship then immigrate to Cuba.
- SnuKs, on 10/10/2007, -5/+19Chinatown in Cuba? I never knew....
- snypa, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16The previous dictatorship, led by Batista, AND supported by the USA was worse.
- flaknugget, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14As a Canadian tourist, I must say that I enjoyed my time in Cuba more than in the Dominican Republic, Curacao, and Haiti.
- obliviousfool, on 10/10/2007, -10/+23On the whole they are probably well-off compared to countries in South and Central America that we have "helped." They haven't ended up Billions of dollars in debt to the World Bank or IMF while American corporations rape their natural resources and work against anyone trying to reduce conditions of poverty and corruption.
- plizard, on 10/10/2007, -3/+16someone of some importance died
- Scruffydan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Cuba has no problems with American tourists, but the US government does
- deivys, on 10/10/2007, -3/+16I am from Cuba and I was there last year. Although those pics are real it does not trully represent the whole cuba. I am from Matanzas and I can tell you that It doesnt look like Havana at all. Also I am from Cardenas where many people work at varadero which is a turist spot and many people in cardenas has 2 and three stories houses over there fully equip with AC, all kinds of electronics, etc.
- jimmy72, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16They did exactly that to Che. Now all of the trendy retards wear his face on their shirts. Sadly, most of them have no clue about who or what he was.
- afroncio, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12It's not that they are rarely seen by Westerners. It's that they are rarely seen by Americans, who have an embargo on Cuba. Don't mean this as a criticism, just correcting the statement.
- CohibaVancouver, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14>Why is it that Americans can visit communist China but not communist Cuba?
Because there isn't a big block of Chinese voters in South Florida :)
...to be honest, as a Canadian I kind of like the fact there aren't any Americans in Cuba. No Burger King, and Canadians are considered the top dog, because, unlike Europeans, we tip the servers. - habfan29, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12You should care because they are people. It should be that simple.
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