Castro: Cruise Ships No Longer Welcome in Cuba

Thus spake Kurt Ullman <kurtullmanm> :

>In article <1154567395.504184.312730@75g2000cwc.. com>,
> "NWLB" <NathanWLB@> wrote:
>
>> I think if Cuba falls into chaos from a lack of a strong central
>> government, then we are looking at a long, slow, painful process of the
>> island opening to the cruise industry. If the government, under
>> whomever, displays the ability to keep the country intact, and opens
>> the nation to less risky investment than has been the case, you could
>> see a rapid change. There surely is enough private money that is
>> waiting to build in Cuba, which could keep the unskilled labor force
>> working in construction and such.
>
> And think of all the cheap houses in Miami if everybody really returns
>like they say they will.

If you think that's really going to happen, I've got a bridge ... :-)
--
dillon

How much power does it take to run a server farm?
A googlewatt.

On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:42:04 -0500, Dillon Pyron
<dmpyronINVALID@austin.> wrote:

>Interesting you should say that, since Miami-Dade voted for Gore.

Yeah but...what were the results among voters who were actually
alive?

--
- Lee

CLINT:
Have no desire to go to CUBA,but have been to HAITI a couple of
times,and found it very interesting,been to PORT AU PRINCE,and CAP
HATIAN,and did not like port au prince as much as cap hatian,We were
supposed to go up in the mountains to see how voodoo was done,but were
told because of the rain,it was too slippery to go up the mountains,but
we could still hear the voodoo drums off in the distance.
surfer e2468

<
cruise lover>

>You assume wrong. Both parties bend over to this community equally. If they
>didn't the embargo would have ended a long time ago.
>
>
>"partly"? They are wholly to blame! No politician in their right mind is
>willing to drop the embargo if they want to remain in politics. It's worth a


Lincoln fought a civil war and risked the political future of his party to do
what he thought was right. None of our recent Presidential candidates will
even lose the Electoral votes of Florida to do what is right. But, maybe the
US is right and the rest of the world is wrong

In article <211-44D25704-403@storefull-3354.bay.>, pocomount@ says...
>
>
>Have no desire to go to CUBA,all we have to do is visit MIAMI
>

There is a difference. The Cubans in Havana will be happy to speak to you in
English.

>>
>> Cuba is a big island too. Cruise ships would obviously head to Havana but
>>I assume there would be one or two other places in Cuba that would be
>>interesting for ships to visit.
>>
>
>From Canadian friends who have been there, there's not much
>infrastructure outside of Habana.
>--
>

When I first started cruising in the 1960s many Caribbean islands were like
that. Even San Juan, PR did not have much infrastructure. As late as the
1980s this was still the case for places like Grenada and St. Lucia.

Of course, that was a time when I sailed on ships with 500 to 800 passengers.
Today, a struggling infrastructure will be overwhelmed with 2000 to 3000