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Originally Posted by jammies
I don't like it, no, and I would never vacation there. I refused to go there for work once (installing routers into a hotel there) and everyone thought I was crazy - beaches in Cuba in January, or Calgary?
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Cuba has been a passion of mine for a long time, and the truth is the embargo by the US is the single most reason Castro has retained power for as long as he did.
You see the average Cuban is suffering because of our embargo's against them, while they do exceptional work on educating their people and giving them the best society they could, minus the obvious abuses by a dictatorial rule.
One of my former clients went every year with her husband, staying with Cuban friends, I went 3 times in the last 10 yrs, 2 times staying half my 14 days with people in Havana.
This is a country punished by the USA, with the only hope/support coming from countries like Canada and most of Europe that see they need our tourism for them to survive.
It frustrates me to no end that people can be so black/white with communism like its a simple decision. While the USA knows it can push the Cubans, as it fears the repercussions of rich EX Cubans in Florida (a KEY state in the US elections), it would not DARE offend China.
See ultimately the great fight for freedom is the great fight for profit. Cuba isn't worth much to the USA, so it can be bullied. But China which is a true communist society can be dealt with as a favored trading partner and friend.
The hypocracy abounds, and we are sadly not past the Mcarthy era of thinking communism in its form is evil. Communism can change, it does not require war, nor embargo, but our embrace and trading.
Little can resist that.
But if you feel good at night thinking you are helping Cuba by not vacationing there, I dare you to sit down with a Cuban family that I spend a few days with every time I'm there.
The people suffer, the government, does not.
So boycott all you want, you only hurt the people.