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Originally posted by Liquor Dealer
You wanna' explain to me why they risk their lives, day after day, trying to get away from a place they're so damned in love with to get to a place they supposedly hate? Not questioning your logic one iota but this phenomenom of them taking to the open seas in anything from a bathtub to an old Chevy truck on pontoons doesn't exactly sound like the Garden of Eden you've described - Don't suppose you judged Cuba from the carefully segregated touristy areas now did you?
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Actually LD, i said in my above post that most Cubans LOVE americans, despite what america has done to them. Reread my above post about 2/3 of the way down.
I did not say that Cubans hate americans cause it aint true. That's what i find so ironic about this whole blockade bullshit.
Sure there are cubans that want to leave. It's simple, it's a poorer country than the USA. They are leaving for a better life if you judge you life by sheer material gain.
I spent quite a bit of time all over the island actually.
I have also been to other countries in the Carribean and let me tell you something. You want to see poverty, go to Haiti, or Jamaica, then compare it to Cuba.
The American embargo of Cuba is 40 some-odd years old and you haven't squeezed Castro out yet.
Do you really think that anything is going to change any time soon?
If the US had never instigated the trade embargo, I would bet that Castro would have been long gone.