11 Responses to ““Well, Nobody’s Perfect””

1. #1 |  corquando |  April 15th, 2004 at 5:26 pm

   So how does an American travel to Cuba and get about the country unsupervised or un”toured”?

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2. #2 |  Jon H |  April 15th, 2004 at 7:04 pm

   “But hey, at least he’ll have access to health care”

   Except in Hell, it consists of rum enemas topped off with a handrolled Cuban cigar. Lit.

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3. #3 |  Rich Casebolt |  April 15th, 2004 at 8:22 pm

   When the toast has burned
   and all the milk has turned
   and Cap’n Crunch is waving farewell
   When the big one finds you
   may this song remind you
   that they don’t serve breakfast in Hell

   “Breakfast”, Newsboys

   And they don’t have Preparation H there, either …

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4. #4 |  wade |  April 16th, 2004 at 5:50 am

   Anyone been to Jamaica lately? Only a stones throw from Cuba and unsullied by communism and castro, Jamaica is an equally beautiful and just as fucked up place as Cuba, once you get out of the resort compounds.

   Would you rather be born on the streets of Havanna or Trenchtown? looks like a tough call to me, i can’t see that liberal democracy has produced much more for the average jamaican than communinism has for the average cuban, so maybe there are other factors at play here?

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5. #5 |  Joker |  April 16th, 2004 at 8:05 am

   Yeah Wade, both economies are propped up by tourism. Take that away, and you get Ethiopia - unfortunately.
   The only thing Cuba has going for it is that Castro will soon die of old age and perhaps a robust form of capitalism will take root. They have natural resources other than beach sand and tobacco, don’t you know.
   Hopefully some bandito doesn’t step up and promise power to the people, again but better this time.

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6. #6 |  Bernard |  April 16th, 2004 at 8:40 am

   Liberal democracy in Jamaica has been spiced with periods of socialist madness also, including some involving direct influence from Castro’s Cuba.

   I’m not going to tell you that Jamaica would be rich but for those, its political problems and the fluctuations of the global commodities markets have fostered clumsy progress, but there’s no political situation so bad that a little central planning can’t make it worse.

   Remember also that for years Cuba was propped up by direct injections of resources and currency from the USSR. Now that those are gone, it is gradually moving toward the kind of reforms which are necessary in the real world.

   So, you’re right that there are other factors involved, but communism has still been a bad dream for the majority of Cuban citizens.

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7. #7 |  Garth |  April 16th, 2004 at 10:18 am

   Corquando,

   Used to be that you could get a connection to Havana via Mexico and I assume it would be easy enough to do soo via many European cities. I don’t know if the strained relations btwn Cuba and Mexico under the Fox Admin has changed anything.

   As for Wade’s comparison to Jamaica: there are really only two reasons that I might consider prefering being born an average Jamaican over an average Cuban: the prospect that pot will probably soon be legal and that I might have the opportunity to move to the US w/out risking my life.

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8. #8 |  DougB |  April 16th, 2004 at 11:00 am

   Also Canada and Jamaica itself are routes to Cuba that any American may take.

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9. #9 |  Anonymous |  April 16th, 2004 at 12:53 pm

   Jamaica has the worlds finest coffee, so it is/can be more then just tourism.

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10. #10 |  UnBaked |  April 19th, 2004 at 5:38 am

    wait… wait…

    pot isn’t legal in Jamaica?

    wait…

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