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Cuba's changing?

My father in law went to Cuba recently, and he found a lot of the typical Cuban things: the son music, the countryside, the old cars and buildings etc. But is it changing rapidly now that Fidel is mostly out of the picture? Any experiences?

By Peter (Moderator) (Trustee board) (Dev team) on Jun 4, 2008, 03:15 in Cuba.

kat1 (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jun 4, 2008, 05:06:

my husband did a charity cycling in Cuba in 1995, he wrote story about his travel there, he said he never has never seen so many beautiful old cars

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kat1 (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jun 4, 2008, 06:06:

uhmm but if they are by the sea they will, the salt will rust them in no time

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Peter Perez says on Jun 5, 2008, 17:38:

There hasn't being any changes at all, except for more repression on dissidents.
People can buy computers , but not access to the internet.
You can buy electric goods, but half of the time there is no electricity.
You can buy cooking pots but food is gone up and hard to find.
Changes ? No my friends only smoke and mirrors.
As we say in Cuba
Same Cat different collar"

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Peter Perez says on Jun 7, 2008, 12:00:

I didn't understand that Morphus, Cubans do get pay in Pesos !

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Peter Perez says on Jun 8, 2008, 12:59:

Morphus are you cuban ?

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Peter Perez says on Jun 10, 2008, 22:05:

How many Miles per Bushel ? LOL

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Peter Perez says on Jun 12, 2008, 14:14:

It has always being the same, the large Cities attract the riftraft and shake downers, even before Castro Havana was for the opportunists.
In the east are even more friendly and nice.

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sandman0011 (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jun 16, 2008, 16:00:

An elderly Cuban gentleman once told me, "we cubans are very good at fixing things"! I have seen them in the streets fixing their cars with bailing wire and making engine parts with metal files.
Not too many of those old cars could be considered..."pretty"

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Peter Perez says on Jun 24, 2008, 19:13:

Who says there aren't changes in Cuba ?
Men can now become women and women men, all free .
Thanks to Mariela Castro as far as improvements and political changes it is worse now tahn ever.

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bradk says on Jun 27, 2008, 21:31:

has anyone on here flown to havana from colombia and back are you required to get stamped returning to colombia i would not want to as i am an american citizen thanks

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Peter Perez says on Jul 7, 2008, 13:11:

Here is some advice Peter, I would be very careful in giving instruction how to break US law concerning Cuba in this open forum;
Read this; http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/05/us_kills_european_based_cuba_w...

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Ken says on Oct 3, 2008, 23:27:

When We were in Trinidad working, my friend from Houston and I went to Cuba. They didn't stamp his passport (I'm Canadian, no worry)

Its a real stupid dumb law anyway, even if the regime there is bad , there are a lot worse places that the US supports. Stupid laws are made to be broken, Punto Cerrado,

I think it even says somehing like that in the US constitution.

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Lostgringo says on Oct 16, 2008, 06:31:

Here is the deal guys. Cuba DOES NOT stamp ANY passports. None. Nada. I have flown to Cuba many times. From Canada and from Colombia. I even asked customs to stamp my passport as I wanted a Cuban Stamp on it. They would not do it. No I am not giving Americans (US Citizens) information on how to break law. And just for everyone's information allot of Americans go there. Also, the Cuban people like Americans but hate their government.

What has been done however is the US "Big Brother" style of government have actually gone into the passenger lists and got information on US citizens going to Cuba. Like they have nothing better to do!

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babygirl says on Oct 16, 2008, 17:43:

Hmmm I would say Cuba has changed for those that work in the hospitality industry and have access to convertible pesos or Canadian friends that bring them stuff. (I say Canadian because there is a ridiculous volume of Canadian package tourism to Cuba year round). The Canadians loooove to shower the Cubans with gifts (mostly useless dollar store stuff though).

My last trip to Cuba, I was chilling with a bartender and he was actually insulted that someone had given him an old no name brand cd player..hahaha. He tried to buy my full keyboard cell phone from me. That same trip, another bartender wanted to buy my iPod from me. I once gave my flat iron to a sweetie bartender that wanted to start her own business as a hair stylist. Next time I go I'll probably bring the bartender the cell phone as I don't use it anymore. He'll probably not want it because I dropped it and it has scratches on it now..hehe.
I was at a rock fest my last visit and a lot of the kids were wearing Converse runners and branded shirts. Anyway, so my opinion things have changed quite a bit from my first visit to Cuba years ago.

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babygirl says on Oct 17, 2008, 06:28:

I suppose this is going to make a little bit of a difference.

Cuba claims massive oil reserves.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7675234.stm

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babygirl says on Oct 20, 2008, 15:25:

hehe. I think I might have bought one of your friends cds ;) lmao.

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