On 2016-07-18 7:43 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 7/18/2016 9:38 AM, The Greatest! wrote:
>> On Sunday, 17 July 2016 14:28:39 UTC-5, Jeßus wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Those are quite contrasting experiences there. I like the sound of
>>> those sandwiches. I *especially* like the idea of no generic fast food
>>> places contaminating the place, and much of contemporary western
>>> culture, for that matter.
>>
>>
>> Ya gotta love a snotty statement like this, declaring that a place
>> should remain dirt poor, just so rich foreigners like himself can keep
>> the place to themselves. Some think that Cuba should remain some sort
>> of closed "socialist Disneyland", unsullied by modernity. Pretty
>> shameful...
>>
>
> I imagine it will have the same facade for decades but they sure deserve
> every modern convenience that we have. Just as many cities in Europe
> maintain historic districts, behind the walls are electric lights!

Who says that they can't have economic progress without all the crappy
franchises and fast food joints?

> I have to wonder though, in a year or so of open tourism and cruise ship
> invasions will they say "Yankee, go home"

To be fair, the US had its eyes on Cuba in the mid 1800s. Daniel Sickles
was sent to Europe to feel out France and Britain about American hopes
to liberate Cuba from Span and annex it to the US. The US had a major
and very negative impact on the Cuban economy. Americans bought up large
tracts of land and used it to produce sugar, a very volatile commodity,
and later on there was decadent night live and the American mobsters in
cahoots with the corrupt Cuban government.