Cuba, U.S. to restore relations

[Armchair_QB]

Get there now before there are McDonalds signs on the sea wall.

This.

 

[Boom_70]

Imagine all the hot Cuban women ready to pose for Playboy. You've seen the Brazilian.
Make way for "The Cuban"

 

[JR]

Well, there goes Canada's #1 beach vacation destination.

 

[Big Circus]

I saw plenty of your countrymen when I went to Playa del Carmen, JR. Enough that the chintzy souvenir stores sold trinkets for every NFL team and the Saskatchewan Roughriders. They've always got the Yucatan to fall back on.

 

[ThomsonONE]

Cuban Cigars!!! Finally, been waiting for 20 years to avoid the "illegal" dance (and having to pay the "illegal" premium).

If you think this is good news regarding cigars you are mistaken. The demand for Cubans will now skyrocket, with supply being fixed. Prices will increase not decrease as people that couldn't be bothered to find a way to get them begin buying them. Very bad news for cigars.

 

[Boom_70]

If you think this is good news regarding cigars you are mistaken. The demand for Cubans will now skyrocket, with supply being fixed. Prices will increase not decrease as people that couldn't be bothered to find a way to get them begin buying them. Very bad news for cigars.

Good point. Will take a while for the market to adjust. What will be interesting is the fight for brand names and who owns the rights to use
the names like Romeo and Juliet or Cohiba

 

[heyabbott]

Johnny Ola Tours. Old Johnny knows this place like the back of his hand.

 

[Riptide]

Do we get Miami back?

Miami, heart of Cuban exile community, stunned by U.S. policy shift
Though cheered by many, President Barack Obama’s announcement to normalize relations
with Cuba drew condemnation from Castro critics in Miami’s Cuban exile community, where
the U.S. president was branded as an “Appeaser in Chief.”

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article4555297.html
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article4552516.html

 

[HanSenSE]

This changes the MLB AL East landscape. The Yankees will now be able to get Manny Rojas in their rotation for 2015.
At worst he will be their # 2 starter. The guy is a flame thrower.

I was thinking more along the lines of Elian Gonzalez:

 

[britwrit]

"Get there now before there are McDonalds signs on the sea wall."

I lived - very briefly - in the Prague of the early 1990s - when there were only three McDonalds in town. "Old timer" Americans would reminisce about when there were none.

Are we seeing the dawn of the next hip expat hangout?

 

[heyabbott]

Do we get Miami back?

Miami, heart of Cuban exile community, stunned by U.S. policy shift
Though cheered by many, President Barack Obama’s announcement to normalize relations
with Cuba drew condemnation from Castro critics in Miami’s Cuban exile community, where
the U.S. president was branded as an “Appeaser in Chief.”

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article4555297.html
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article4552516.html

It's been over 50 years, get over it. Batista loving ex-fascists in Miami, go back to Cuba or get over Castro already.

 

[bigpern23]

I was thinking more along the lines of Elian Gonzalez:
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Man, that is such a great photo. Hard to use the word great because of what that poor kid was going through as it was taken, but great in the journalistic sense.

 

[cranberry]

Do we get Miami back?

Miami, heart of Cuban exile community, stunned by U.S. policy shift
Though cheered by many, President Barack Obama’s announcement to normalize relations
with Cuba drew condemnation from Castro critics in Miami’s Cuban exile community, where
the U.S. president was branded as an “Appeaser in Chief.”

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article4555297.html
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article4552516.html

It's been over 50 years, get over it. Batista loving ex-fascists in Miami, go back to Cuba or get over Castro already.

Exactly. There's a vocal minority of idiots in Miami who lost property in '58 and still believe the Bay of Pigs was just a bad first try and that we're going to go back and try again. They just need to get over it. Good to see Marco Rubio having conniptions, though.

 

[Songbird]

Havana will play in the National League East with the Marlins. The first manager will be ________ .

Havana will join the NBA too, and Riley will be the first coach, then GM. He was always ahead of the curve going for the hotspots after leaving L.A. (on New York then Miami).

Havana -- which MacGregor calls "the next Paris, Prague and Berlin: all poets and saxophonists and favorable exchange rates" -- is the perfect ending for his basketball career.

 

[Boom_70]

I was thinking more along the lines of Elian Gonzalez:
View attachment 6

And don't forget his Aunt the lovely Marisleyis Gonzalez

 

[SFIND]

Washington Post: Obama gives Castro regime undeserved bailout

 

[HanSenSE]

And don't forget his Aunt the lovely Marisleyis Gonzalez

Used to be the highlight of my mornings when I did wire pages at a p.m., the obligatory Marisleyis-walking-Elian-to-school photo.


Alas, just a 6.

 

[Boom_70]

Wait till the Carnival Cruise ships start rolling in. Cuba will want to rescind the agreement.

 

[Boom_70]

Washington Post: Obama gives Castro regime undeserved bailout

Hey it was easier to open Cuba than close GITMO so that's what he did.

 

[heyabbott]

Guantanamo's McDonald's
In 1986, Guantanamo became host to the first and only McDonald's restaurant within Cuba.[55][56]

A Subway sandwich shop was opened in November 2002.[57] Other fast food outlets have followed. These fast food restaurants are on base, and not accessible to Cubans. It has been reported that prisoners cooperating with interrogations have been rewarded with Happy Meals from the McDonald's located on the mainside of the base.[58]

In 2004, Guantanamo opened a combined KFC & A&W restaurant at the bowling alley and a Pizza Hut Express at the Windjammer Restaurant.[59] There is also a Taco Bell, and the Triple C shop that sells Starbuckscoffee and Breyers ice cream. All the restaurants on the installation are franchises owned and operated by the Department of the Navy.[60] All proceeds from these restaurants are used to support morale, welfare, and recreation (MWR) activities for service personnel and their families.[61] In the 1980s, there was even a Baskin-Robbins ice cream store, the first franchise to open on the base.[citation needed]