Marty's Travels

My house has wheels

Politics: Cuba

Within hours of hearing the news about Cuba, the media immediately started talking about selling them cars, pouring tourist dollars in, and selling them thingies.

That is precisely the hubris of America that Cuba has been successfully avoiding for 50 years, no doubt to their satisfaction. Why do we think they even want our cars, when if you look at what they have they’re better looking. Or why do we think we are even welcome as tourists? The place is already filled with tourists, I doubt there’s any room for more.

Many countries would rather not have us getting our foot in the door because before you know it we’re either bombing the place or building a Starbucks. Or the CIA tries to destroy their government when the average citizen doesn’t know what a government is or does.

Myself, I think Castro has made a mistake.