July 18, 2005
Eat it, fidel
President Bush just cost you $95 million, barbudo. Not that people actually want to be around you. But this is what you get. Go see if Hugo Chavez will, yet again, be happy to make up the difference to you, mendicant.
The embargo is working. EFE reports:
Number of U.S.-Cuba travelers falls over 60 pct
Miami, Jul 18 (EFE).- The number of travelers from the United States to Cuba has fallen more than 60 percent in the past year, the press reported Monday, citing official figures.
The drop in travel from the United States to Cuba was a direct result of the tougher restrictions imposed on dealings with the island by President George W. Bush's administration to "promote a democratic transition on the island," the El Nuevo Herald newspaper said.
For Cuba, the drop in visitors from the United States translated into a reduction of $95 million in revenues, the newspaper said, adding that the restrictions also cost U.S.-based airlines and travel businesses money.
In the past 12 months, according to official figures, some 55,000 people traveled from the United States to Cuba, or about 35.7 percent of the number that had been visiting the island annually before the tougher travel restrictions kicked in June 30, 2004.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issues specific licenses to Cubans living in the United States, who are allowed to visit relatives in Cuba once every three years.
Since the restrictions took effect, OFAC has processed more than 30,000 applications for the travel permits, of which 20,000 were approved and the rest rejected.
The US-Cuba Trade and Economic Council estimates that some 154,000 people traveled legally to Cuba in 2003, some 85 percent of them for family reasons.
About 23,000 traveled to the island under specific licenses for business, religious functions, cultural and sports exchanges, and as members of humanitarian groups. EFE nbc/hv
Posted by Mora at July 18, 2005 06:36 PM
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Comments
¡A cada cerdo le llega su San Martin! Well, fidelito, you’ve made your bed, now lie in it.
Posted by: George L. Moneo at July 18, 2005 07:04 PM
Que se joda. English translation: Let's him fuck himself. Too bad.
Posted by: CB at July 18, 2005 07:52 PM
That's exactly why the fidelista crowd is so manic about lifting the sanctions. You're right it's working.
Posted by: conductor at July 18, 2005 07:58 PM
Thank the Lord. His days are numbered. Biology is the only real solution to Cuba's problems.
Posted by: j.scott barnard at July 18, 2005 08:35 PM
Gee, castro might even have to make a withdrawal from his Swiss bank account for a change.
Posted by: Jay at July 18, 2005 09:30 PM
Unfortunately, as long as the price of oil is over $40-$50 per barrel, the supreme leader of the revolución bonita will be more than happy to make up the difference. "Cuba and Venezuela are one," Chavez dixit.
Posted by: frank at July 18, 2005 09:38 PM
viva los democraticos!!
don't ya just love the dumb cowboy!!!
55,000 they can just fucking keep!
my brother sent me this:
http://www.militaresdemocraticos.com/en/index.html
Posted by: luckent47 at July 18, 2005 09:48 PM
Scott: Or a convenient lamp post and meat hook.
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at July 18, 2005 11:55 PM
Frank: Even Minime is not bottomless. He's having bad money problems these days for spending it like there was no tomorrow. That oil company fell off the Fortune 500. I think the bastard is in trouble. I wrote this today:
http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=2702
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at July 18, 2005 11:57 PM
THE FOOD IS ALREADY IN CUBA
Ideas will take hold, eventually. The Cubans should be encouraged to invade the Tourist Zone and take what belongs to them, that they will find all the food they can use right there. Once they do that, Castro's hold on the country will be broken. He'll have to use those jets he bought in China to leave the country, if he can keep ahead of the crowd. All they need is an opportunity, like one of his anti-American marches, when enough people are herded together for the protest that they can quickly become an uncontrollable and vengeful mob.
A picture of Mussolini and his mistress comes to mind...from about sixty years ago.
Posted by: Howarde at July 19, 2005 12:32 AM
I don't see how crowds of Cubans could take over the tourist sector or bring down the government. This seems like wishful thinking to me. Who has the power? Who has the guns? I don't doubt for one second that the government would come down hard on any attempt like that. The only way it would work is with a revolt in the military. What are the possibilities of this? I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong in this analysis. I just don't want any more Cubans to get hurt or end up in jail.
Posted by: Regina at July 19, 2005 12:48 AM
I agree with Howard. When you have one million people in the streets for one of those stupid speeches the conditions might be right for a mob to develop.
Posted by: conductor at July 19, 2005 01:54 AM
It would be so nice to see them take it out on the arrogant, demanding, come-along-chop-chop neocolonial, privileged eurotrash.
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at July 19, 2005 07:39 AM
Think Ceaucescu and madame Ceaucescu. feed-el could wind up wearing a swiss-cheese-and-ketchup costume. All things are possible under the sun.
Posted by: Alberto Quiroga at July 19, 2005 12:35 PM
How many in the Cuban military are coerced? A crowd of a million would require killing a lot of their fellow citizens. I’m not convinced cagastros “volunteer” army would have the stomach for that. What do you think?
Posted by: Kathleen at July 19, 2005 04:04 PM
We can only hope the end is near, but with the bearded-one, it has taken much to long. As far as mobs, I would have to say it would get bloody. He would not hesitate to make up stories of spies and infiltration and CIA agents, and just mow them down.
He is insane. It would mean nothing to him. Have any of you read what he said about the hurricane? Somebody please get the straight-jacket!!
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