"...unjust and ethically unacceptable..."
-- Pope John Paul II during a 1998 Papal visit to Cuba
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
One Man's View of the Embargo
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Why I Went to Cuba
Few places in the world are more off-limits to U.S. citizens than one of our closest neighbors - Cuba. I've wanted for years to visit this mysterious island. Finally my dream came true. One of the few ways U.S. citizens can legally do it without facing punishment from the U.S. government is to go as a full-time professional conducting research related to your field. As an airport professional, I was part of a delegation of architects and urban planners organized by Global Exchange to conduct research related to development plans at Havana Jose Martí International Airport & other public transportation sites around the island. I went to do research in a country that my government doesn't want me to see. And I went to see why they don't want me to see it. Here, you can see some of it with me.
These are randomly selected videos about Cuba from YouTube. Click one and it will play at the top of the page, right above the Cuba map. Check back for my own videos from Cuba here soon!
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- Are They Poor?
- One World Body's View of the Embargo
- Cuban Rainforest
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- Some Favorite Havana Pictures
- Crime in Cuba
- Cuba Cars
- Last Day in Havana: The Pictures
- Last Day in Havana: The Story
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- Whither the People?
- Instead of Capitalist Ads Everywhere . . .
- Havana Night: Tres Amigos and a Shake-Down
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- Varadero: Cuba's Cancun
- Cuba's North Coast
- Cuban Baseball: Conga Drums & Condoms
- Trinidad de Cuba, a Colonial Mountain Village
- Cienfuegos, South Coast of Cuba
- The Cuban Countryside
- South Coast of Cuba
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My Cuba Research
Having found out about my Cuba trip just a week before leaving, I didn't have much time for a proper Cuba primer. I elected to watch as many films about Cuba as I could before leaving, and picked the ones above, rented for free from San Diego Public Library branches. I highly recommend 'Waiting for Fidel' and 'Nada+'. You might be able to find or request these at YOUR library, or click the links above to buy them from Amazon and see a synopsis of each.
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1 Comment:
unjust and ethically unacceptable!?
Well the late Pope went back to his homeland and took a lot of time, money and effort to make sure that his people would enjoy freedom, shame WE cubans havent had the "grace" to have a Cuban Pope that would fight for Cubans against this horrible dictatorship thats close to 50 years of the most horrible crimes against us the cuban people.
I know most of the time no one cares and futher more no one understands what we have gone thru.
The day all Cubans are free and have the opportunity to speak up without fear of beign thrown in jail for telling the world what they think... That they we will know. Lets wait for the rat to finally die and leave us Cubans in peace to take back our lives.
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