You know the irony here is you could only get away with this sort of big lie if you were a censor official in a place like Cuba, right? 
Seriously, with your talent there are potential job openings in North Korea for a guy like you!!
…it’s fulla WHAT?
And look how that turned out!!
You kidding? It would be the Hawaii of the Atlantic. It would be richer than God.
Just like Puerto Rico!
You know, off-topic, but I always wondered why PR wasn’t more of a tropical paradise destination. I mean, it does rely on tourism to a great extent, but other Caribbean islands - even American ones like the US Virgin Islands - do it so much better. Why is that? Crime? Corruption? Giant killer mosquitoes?
Probably ratio of the population size to tourism. The islands that do well are small ones where tourism can have a big impact on the economy. The Dominican Republic and Jamaica have lots of resorts but are worse off than Puerto Rico.
Cuba already has a big tourist trade with Canada and Europe. The US would greatly increase that, but even under a capitalist regime Cuba would still remain pretty poor overall.
A little googling suggests these approximate figures for tourism in the Caribbean:
Dominican Republic 4.7 million
Puerto Rico 4 million
Cuba 2.8 million
US Virgin Islands 2.5 million
Jamaica 2 million
This is why it’s important to always wear a helmet when riding your bike.
Cuba, one hears, is a prime destination for sex tourism.
Well, it does have America’s wang pointed right at it.
It’s always a little disturbing when patients who forget to take their Zyprexa gain access to the Internet, but it reminds us of the value of modern antipsychotics and the importance of maintaining correct dosage. With their aid and with professional supervision, many of these people might not have to be institutionalized and may even be able to achieve a rudimentary level of cognitive awareness and lead something approaching normal if subfunctional lives.
You’re angry because you’re misinformed by the RW media.
I doubt even Fox or the Washington Times would go so far as “Obama is literally saying that the US government should be executing children for political crimes.” Breitbart, maybe. Alex Jones, definitely.
It’s been a bad couple of weeks for Little Marco, and I thought I’d check to see how the little guy is reacting to this. It seems that he’s having a hard time controlling his hot Latino temper. Apparently this tiny island, whose main industry after tourism is trying to set world records for how long they can keep 50s era American cars on the road, is some kind of existential threat to the United States. Because, like, communism spreads, man. Pretty soon you’ll have American tourists coming back implanted with traitorous ideas about universal health care.
I’m as anti-Castro, anti-communist as they get, but the embargo was stoooopid.
A McDonald’s in every corner will kill socialism in a jiffy*. Well done, Obama!
- This phrase should not be taken as an indictment on the nutritional value of McD’s.
It’ll kill something, anyway! 
Strictly speaking the embargo was well on its way to the history books, under Clinton in the nineties, it took the cuban airforce shooting down private planes, to keep it in place for a few more years.
Declan
You don’t need to knock down old havana, simply hold a rock concert and put the volume to 11. The place would fall apart on its own. But Old H is gorgeous, while New H, is in severe need of a B-52 strike, co-inkly dinkly, right where Obama had that pic taken.
The houses and buildings, are actually protected by the UN, but if they could be put back into livable condition, they would be worth huge coin on the open market, think Bruge, but with colonial spanish, instead of castles. New Havana has all the charm that Soviet concrete can give.
Declan
More like the voices in his head.