In 2013, I visited Cuba with my partner and two old friends. It was legal. It is still legal.
We had a spectacular trip arranged by a Cuban-born travel agent. Her name is Myriam Castillo. You can contact her here:
mcastillo@bespoke-cct.com
She is thorough, efficient, and thoughtful.
We stayed in a beautiful hotel in Havana. We visited excellent restaurants. We had tour guides wherever we went. We visited museums, artists’ homes, and historical sites.
We flew nonstop from Miami. I understand there are nonstop flights now from other cities.
The most exciting moment of the trip for me was when I got the ticket stub that said “Miami-Havana.” After 63 years of non-contact, it was thrilling.
The food was wonderful. The people were welcoming. The sight of 1950s American automobiles, in perfect condition, with leather seats, all in vibrant colors, was fabulous.
Myriam had an agent waiting for us at Jose Marti Airport. The agent helped us check into the hotel. An SUV drove us to places outside Havana.
If you want the thrill of a lifetime, this is the vacation to plan.
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You visited in 2013??? You mean you didnât have to travel via Canada or Mexico??? Congratsâ¦Hasta la victoria, siempre (Che Guevara) Vera Gottlieb Switzerland
God may have given us a brain but the Devil made sure most of us don’t use it. Olle Johansson (Sweden)
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Yes, I was there in 2013. Nonstop from Miami to Havana.
I left Cuba ( defector, I graduated at the Naval Academy runer by the ex-Soviet Union . I feel so bad when people visit Cuba and the evils who runs the hotels , tours etc , treat tourists as King but Discriminate the Cuban people to the point where tourists can go and the Cuban people can’t if Cuban people get cached in places like Cayo Coco , some hotels in Varadero Beach , the HOTEI NATIONAL IN VEDADO HAVANA THEY GET KICKED OUT OR SENDED TO PRISON I WON’T GO back to Cuban until no one of the evils who rule my land can use their power to send me to prison because they hate cause I scape and I’m been telling trough my social media as well antiCastros radios stations No Castro’s no Problems I compare Castro with Trump . Diane you would go and stay in any Hotels of Donald Trumps ? Dumb Question absolutely not . Then support the Cuban regimen is worts
My wife and I were on a 2019 Royal Caribbean cruise to Cuba. In Havana we used an excellent guide that got us to everything you describe here, Blexie-Havana Tours on Facebook. Everything you describe here is spot on, Diane. The people love us. The only hassle was when we tried to bring tooth brushes and toothpaste to a day care run by a Spanish nun. They wouldn’t let take “gifts” off the ship. Earlier when the entire ship was leaving we were able to “smuggle” a number of items including medications off, most left at the main synagogue, while our guides parents were dentists he got toothbrushes and Nutella he requested for his girlfriend.
Thank-you for this info. I have always wanted to visit Cuba.
Sounds wonderful
https://fhrcuba.org/2015/07/twenty-one-years-later-horrors-of-the-cuban-tugboat-massacre-loom-over-cuban-government
Sounds wonderful visit a country where people are suffering for the rulers Castro’s ?
Understood. I, too, would like to see the end of one-party dictatorship in Cuba. I suspect that the way we get there is through engagement. The embargo and nonengagement has not worked after decades of this.
Agreed. We allow exchanges and trade with many horrendous regimes. Why is Cuba singled out for isolation? We would all benefit if the Castro regime fades into history and the Cuban people enjoy a good life.
Yes, it’s a great pity. You and I are agreed on this, Diane. I detest Communist regimes (and any sort of totalitarianism). But I’ve got a great love for Cuban music (I’m a jazz guitarist) and great admiration for the ordinary Cuban people. I would love to see them free. And relations between our countries thawed.
What engagement?
Totalitarian regimes depend upon people remaining ignorant of the rest of the world. More interaction between ordinary Cubans and the rest of the world would eventually, I suspect, lead to a situation in which the single-party dictatorship would be unsustainable. Does that make sense?
Regarding ignorance and Totalitarians regimens The relationship between totalitarian mechanisms and maintaining the population ignoring you in the case of the Castro’s brothers used education, medicine and free and open sports for everyone who wanted to study, the Cuban is not ignorant, education in Cuba at the time I studied, excellent public education, in Cuba there is no illiteracy in the US I have seen people who have never gone to schools live in rural places, US has a much greater territorial extension than Many countries and the population is not exuberant as is the population of China or India. The Castros brothers where they took control to the point of still being in power, removed their weapons, divided families and immigration from Cuba to the US have favored the US against the freedom of Cuba. Fulgencio Batista was the cause of the entrance of the castros, Batista a Greddy and cruel who stole the national heritage of Cuba when Castro and the rebels fought against Batista, I still wonder what role the CIA played for Castro to succeed and remain in power for more than 60 years, Fidel and the secret movement of the Soviets when they introduced the missiles into Cuba (Missile Crisis) led to the signing of a treaty The world was in the hands of two presidents and another hidden in the Soviet Union Nikita Kruse, the treaty had to be signed the serial missiles taken from Cuba on the condition that Cuba could not be attacked, in Panama a Cuban opponent named Posada Carriles who tried to attack against the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. The CIA stopped the attempt to attack when it did not correspond, it was the responsibility of Panama and Cuban security. Why does the CIA arrest the Cuban opponent if the attack was outside the US territory? Something that bothers me because although I was not born in the USA and studied in military schools exercising for family Soviet in the USA or abroad, even so we cannot wash my brain in the low of the 90’s I became a deserter and my children were born in the USA, I would like to add that I made a mistake I sent my son and my daughter to a school charter where he abused me from the branch To start an endless legal fight because the president of the Charter School was the mayor of Hiealeah Carlos Hernandez, the thief mayor underestimated me and because I sued Charter the police department did a terrible job, the mayor ruled how Castro sent police to my house invading my house, stopping my car without me not raping, also police officers arrested my wife and called my name intimidation Nocturnal. I started this 2015 legal fight still standing, everyone fought, my lawyer let me down and a couple of you in World Press got up and backed me up. I have to thank Diane, Lloyd Lotfhouse, who is a great person. Thank God, Lloyd and Diane, also Susan Lee Stuart, took advantage of that reason and now the city is in a really bad field position because the settlement could be quite high. The mayor is out of the room and all his colleagues, the legal department admitted the irregularity Now I don’t have the money to pay a lawyer who litigates Most of the lawyers do not want to face the figure of the corrupt government as the mayor who was involved in a trial Major Hernández lied to protect an organized crime fraud, back to the totalitarian, the only country that can stop and change the Cuban regime is the US. Telling Raúl Castro to leave Cuba or we will prosecute him for a war crime against civilians, children who were shot for wanting to leave the island as dozens died in the sinking of the tugboat March 13 that the captain good friend of mine that we studied together in Cuba, Raúl Muñoz García captain of the tugboat lost her husband who was pregnant and her sister who lie at the bottom of the sea in international waters 1000 meters deep, the killer regime used three powerful steel boats to sink the tugboat by killing more than 30 people, men, women and children, my friend who was 5 years in a Cuban prison after he survived swimming the next day (The Boat was sunk at approximately 1 in the morning those who did not sank with the tugboat survived those who knew how to stabilize afloat were operated or grabbed Woods that floated or some objects, my friend Raul after Geneva ruled that it was a murder against humanity Geneva Put Pressure to the Cuban Dictatorship and my friend flue to USA. I received my friend. I helped him out of the trauma Knowing that I had experience at sea, he asked me to speak on his radio station and for the people of Cuba to listen to the station that is based in Miami with reach to the Cuban Island for decades shelling out the Cuban Regime, the Cuban government retaliated with my brother who lives in Cuba and they imprisoned him and they imposed fines for what he had told you from Miami the Regime sent a notice to intimidate me with questionable means because in Miami I think there are individuals who work for the dictatorship, the Castros are so murderous that they shot down two small plans Jose Basulto an anti-Castro Cuban made the mistake of approaching Cuban waters to drop papers that said below Fidel and the FBI warned Basulto as well I told send those plans to Cuba was dangerous because the Mid 15 Soviet jet fighters would shoot down the planes and so it was now Basulto is traumatized because 4 people died in the collapse, I have done everything I could to unmask the tyranny ta Also Putin and his colleagues. Cuba the pearl of the Caribbean that before Castro the Cuban peso was above the USDollar or even one to one never below. I think Castro was helped by some evil minds why? With Castro in power, US economy would advance, Miami before Castro was nothing by gators and after Castro became a Big Market City and top city’s to visit in the world and to live too, with Castro in power, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Puerto Rico , Costa Rica took advantage in the economy one country was destroyed but others took the advantage the Cuban Baseball professional top before Castro my daddy told me that by there de players a lot better than after Castro , MLB most of the Players Americans players and Cuban Players , a few players from other country’s , Dominican Republic who learned to play baseball as a gift from Cuba in the war of independence took advantage after Castro. I believe that there was a conspiracy and that Castro was appointed to stabilize the economy of other countries. Now I’m looking for the answer I love figure out deep secrets by myself when I see something blaring my IQ start working and finding links, after I found the FIRTS piece that led me to study the assassination of JFK, conspiracy there was, Fidel Castro knowing that Kennedy was ready to support the invasion of bay pig, he held a grudge and hate after the two countries of the United Nation that did not give approval for the American Fighter Jets to take off to support the invasion, Kennedy could not violate what United Nation asked ( I think the only president of the USA who went to war without the authorization of the United Nation was Jorge W. Bush administration by the Iraq world , Sadan Hudsen no relation with Bin laden and no weapons of mass destruction ( Inspectors went to Iraq twice and not evidenced of what Bush administration was claiming, I was in the Miami Arena debate Bush debate and I hear the Republicans Lincoln Dias Balar and the Democrat Bob Menéndez .Mr. Menéndez ask to Mr. Balar why Bush administration went to Iraq wars after the inspectors proved no a piece of evidence that Husen had weapons of mass destruction and Husen never had any link with Bin Laden a shame to the Republican Mr. Balar who the only thing he says Husen was a Dictator and Mr. Menéndez replied but the United nation did not approve the war and also told Mr. Balar you say that the Iraq President was a Director? And what about the Dictatorship we have close to US (Cuban Regimen? Sarcastic Mr. Balar smiled something that bothered me in the way that I justified what I did not have to justify, Kennedy a great president killed and I say Oswald was framed and who killed Kennedy according to the FBI director by when Kennedy was president he says who kill Kennedy was trained in Miami and show the type of rifle used by the killer an KKK individuals what made sense because Kennedy tried to made an American without haters and the dumbs Cubans who says they where betrayed by Kennedy they maybe trained the Killer or financed the conspiracy where the evil Nikita Crushed and the puppet and evil Fidel Castro could be involved. Why the truth about Mr. Kennedy it’s not revealed yet? Wow I love America and I feel sad for the people who suffered in those days I live far from my relatives and expose all the crimes of the Castros and their colleagues because Injusticia is a treat to justice everywhere and anywhere e. MLK said that Right Sr ? Ah I forget my enemies but not their names ~ JFK ~ If ignorance kills peoples I decided to live for many years and if I die to defend justice, dying brings suffering, nobody wants to
Nobody wants to die . Exposing the truth is not a crime and if Jesus was killed for telling the truth I’m not better than Jesus I chose to tell the truth even when the truth is not easy to handle. Mr. I appreciate your comments and I respond as a form of gratitude and respect because I noticed that you are not a lover of injustice and are in favor of a change in Cuba. Diane visited Cuba in 2013. Diane asked me how was the education in Cuba I replied public and better than Choices bad choice ( Charters Schooll) Now bring dollars to Cuba it’s a way to support the Dictatorship. Period
Thank you for your in-depth reply, Mr. Castillo. I will spend some time thinking about this before responding. I did not mean to suggest that Cubans were uneducated. I know that is not true, that they are highly educated. But because the island is run by a totalitarian regime, they have limited interaction with the outside world. So, what I was arguing was that if there were more interaction with the outside world, this would lead to pressure on the regime to democratize. Does that make sense to you?
You are very welcome Mr. Shepard. I would like to apologize to you if my comment was so long I included information Your very welcome. I would like to apologize if my comments are very long, I include information that I would like to seem off topic, if you see it that way tell me and I will send you shorter comments, although I believe that everything I send you in one way or another is related with the topic we are discussing. Mr. More than 60 years of dictatorship and Cuba in one way or another interfering with world peace, sorry but the USA has always put a heavy hand on Totalitarian Governments, Noriega in Panama taken in less than a week, great mission operation by the America defense department, Pentagon and many others agency that one way or another get in, There is something the world can’t understand even myself why Castros has done some many crimes, killed somemany people and America have done not much? A question to ask, Who the Cuban Cominity of Miami has been fooled by the Republicans for so many years, The Versages Restautant in Miami every election where Republicans and Democrats run for the seat Republicans has lied to the Cuban Cominity promised that they will carry the liberty a Cuba , Why people still believe in fake promise to be honest my education level it’s not as higher as you guys but if someone fool one one ok but be fooled to many times who lied to me back to back I stay away from people who lied to my people. Could you put a topic open to those who wish to oppose. The Republicans Party’s lied to the Cuban community since Castro took control and the Cuban Community most Republicans even when Republicans have lied so many times. Ah Cubans in Miami not all most say Kennedy was comunist and after the troublemaker Trump became president a lot of American says Democrats are comunist, no true, Republicans and Democrats the strongers patty. Now why do people judge JFK as he betrayed the Cuban people who went to attack Cuban in Bay pig? Kennedy did not betrayed no one and dumbs Cubans and others people still think Kennedy betrayed or did not support the invasion because he don’t want to I stay two country of the United Nation when the US air Force Fifter Jets where ready with engines on ready to the take off The United Nation say no and Kennedy followed the order of the United Nation. Who I can made those Cubans who still are blain or don’t want to understand, the criticize the Truth and support the president who lied most time in American History with a lot of Scandals. Richard Nizon only one scandals and Fired the FBI director Trump a buch of scandals fired James Comey for doing his Job de el, now dumbs Cubans in Miami plus others Americans with low IQ, low education level criticize the FBI when the FBI it ‘s doing their Job. Why people are so woodhead? Mr. It makes sense that the American people most or a lot have no clue about the damage or evil role that the Castro Dictatorship have played including putting our nation ( US in alert the misel crisis, to many immigrations and still there is not lifht ar the end I think talking about Cuba it’s sad but interesting and many people should get involved and together tried to ger the solution. weap for the suffering of the Cuban people regarding out side interreaction with the world , most of the Country including Canada who is been supporting the regimen indirectly I don’t visit Canada because the friends of my enemy it’s my enemy.~ Sincerely ~ Reibel 🤝
Don’t apologize, Mr. Castillo. Your comments are fascinating and worth reading.
Thanks very Much Mr.Shepherd I appreciate your encouraging words . Nice to meet you , you got one more friend ~ Nice to meet you Reibel 🤝👍
Mr.Shepard I’m been trying to find out the answer to this question. If James Comey was fired for do his Job , Trump fired Comey as well he fired an enlist of people and tried to hired individuals corrupts as well as the guy that was sentenced to 15 years in prison . No doubt that Trump it’s the president with more scandals in the History of US , Richard Nixon and water gate scandal , Nixon fired the FBI director and walked away from the White House. The question to answer is if people with power can be fired or going to Prison how is possible that a Principal of a Charter Schooll connected with the Mayor city and Chairman of the Charter school bough are influencing the new Mayor city to appointed the new Chief police and the Principal of the Charter Schooll who is an abuser is still running the Charter Schooll and stolen tax payer money ? Mr. Shepherd if the Principal of the Charter Schooll asked for 20 millions dollars to the council METTINGS and the money was granted, the Charter Schooll Principal said that he has one thausand students and he lied because the amount of students was 566 by when he asked for the money , who he can get rid of crimes like that and still in control of the Charter Schooll and he is planning running as a Mayor and want to be a Florida Goberment that is his dream , now I’m not happy with the Florida government agency that are not doing anything to stop those criminals. Do you want check Hiealeah Education Academy. Inc historial ? Google or read what I’m going to ask cause talking about Cuba and back to Topic in Cuba I never was treated by any teacher the way my kids where treated and I never was treated the way I was treated . The County where I live Dade county the only county in Florida out of 67 Florida 67 county’s Dade County the only County running without Sheriffs and polices don’t stop messing with me because they said they are protected by the Mayors and agency that don’t like me because I expose this county . Everyone turn my back on me here , Carlos Carbaljo the ex- superintendent of Miami Dade county that left the city and is in California, Carbaljo should fired the Principal of the Charter Schooll and address the abuse cause Charters should be running as public schools and now everyone it’s in peace and I’m fighting daily because I stand up agains crooks . The truth the fact I’m going to send as many prove I have because enough is enough I was arrested a couple’s week ago front a Chain chatter Schooll for doing nothing they did not put charges just then told me you will back up or we will keep pressure on you . I got everything in camera what I should do ?
I frankly do not know. Perhaps you should seek the advice of a lawyer whom you can familiarize with the details.
Thanks Mr. Shepherd I appreciate your advice I just packed up . I meet with a Lawyer the complain will land in federal court I chose to no litigate the case it’s huge and the prove I have and timeline very well documented are too strong to negotiate instead of the money I need to do what Martin Luther King . Jr. did bring the case to the supreme court Florida need resistance, I read a book long time ago David and Goliath the book have a page where a dog was baiting an Afroamerican and the photographer editor I know he work for a news paper Washinton post or to be honest I don’t te the news paper what I remember the police holding the dog by that time German shepherd mouth was cover because the resistance was increased dogs at the beginning of the rebelión bait and polices where warned that the people wasn’t happy and Mr. MLK in the speech I had a dream was firm and told he was convinced that he was going to win a pictures that goes around the nation turn the movement civil to an scale unprecedented, 12 years I think was the time that MLK took to study law and finally won , there is strongest lions but the strongest one is the Law ~ MLK ~ I got to many support in this city plus friends like you who are doing a lot encouraging me as you all ready did , Mr. Bob what polices , have done to my family and to many people in this town it’s something that happens in totalitarians country’s , I’m by the 8 years of legal battle and they don’t want stop I refuse to quit, my son was beat up by a polices and science teacher and baseball coach of the Charter where he attended and my daughter Arasment by the same guys I don’t force them to respect my people but I refuse to quit,
Reibel, you are posting too many comments. I won’t post any more today.
Diane Sorry, remember Bipolar have different ways to learn and ti be treated. I told everyone everything you have done good . I’m not your enemi Sorry Diane I loss my mom on January and the illness it hit me strong plus as you know the trauma of the Children’s caused for the evils who you and I expose
Blew day Diane . I respect you and encourage you for your hard word very professional I appreciate your understanding. Great day Diane . Ah remember I’m here in down South anything you need to ask don’t hesitate. Ah Cuba is beautiful and you was right sometimes we need to negotiate a change and you love the good education the constitution. I always remember that thanks God and you who started world Press I meet people like you , Lloyd, and others who love the constitution. Diane you and I are fierce defender of the good education. I respect your great job . Always I’ll be your fan , unless you tell me no Reibel enough is enough. Diane as well Hemingway was Bipolar well very smart . Hemingway love the Cuban People and the Cuban people love him . I love the American people and some American people love me . Blessing day Diane . Thanks for your reply I love when I hear from you . Ah my daughter send hello to you and Susan Lee . Stuart . Thanks you that recommended send my children to a public school Melanie win the scholarship Sicology Mayor FIU . My son future was destroyed cause I didn’t send him to a Public Schooll. Thanks Diane for your advices . Great day
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article261304437.html
Does it made sense this cop went to prison after a long fight against the City of Hiealeah polices department and the City Mayor who refused for years to fired this cop if took me years exposing him nation wide I have the anger and prove since they did what they should not do, I spend time , money years of investigation by myself to colect as much evidence I have no other choices that learn about investigation law . I bough the top and recommend spying cameras to catching up all what polices do, I think modestly no one has done what I did Mr.Shepherd I spend all my money to buy those devices plus renting cars buying phones news change numbers to stop them from tailing me , nights without sleep phone they underestimated me and that mistake cost them a lot and still is not over yet because all the money the City Mayor and the Principal has stolen from US tax payer money I’ll made them paid , I hunted them because they hunted my family my childrens because I stand up for what they sus they beat up my son Arasment my daughter a little girl my daughter turn 19 on July FIRTS and my son 23 on February 13 my son was on his teen 12 and my daughter a little girl since they started messing with my children I complain at Internal un fear, FDLE, Intake I went to radio stations TV Chanel’s , and nothing until Washinton DC FBI finally my last shot , Washington interfered and they started to stop but the Mayor after his political carrier was destroyed and his team his body’s loss their job those people don’t forget and I know they are looking to get rid of me , I know eventually they will do to me what to Abraham Lincoln and MLK . I have received to many treats to the point where I stay moving from a place to other . Hitting my IP , traveling on train buses with friends of my who are truck drivers , staying inside my cars , inside hotels , renting with the money that people donate to me if I’m going to travel and I think they have clue I open the IP of my phone I put inside a bag tied with magnets and put inside a truck that I know is going out the town I stay distant and watching to see if I will see what I imaged . Bingo they fallow the truck pull over the driver searched for me and then left mad because I fool them . I’m pretty sure they want frame me , I was told and I get advised to goes where the state attorney is and get the form signed, the form that provide DOJ ( department of Justice’s, I was told are you discocerned put your family in the Federal Protection wiseness protection of the USA marshals ? The Mayor Hernandez lied in the Trial of read this , next
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article1962986.html
That guy who is living while I was talking you can listen I bring a translator because I can read pretty good English but my accent it’s not good enough, Hernandez was involved with criminal individuals the link said a lot . Mr. Shepherd does made sense what I told you? Mr. Shepherd if you served by elites divisions and knows how hard is deal with PTSD you can understand why I’m sending messages and I’m not exaggerating I think facts over speculations. I can send you via Word press the Tracker found in my British diesel Range Rover , the device was biting when I was aproved to my car I could not find where it was installed I call detectives and they arrive fast and it took hours to find it it was installed the Range Rover battery it’s by the spare tired the tracker was getting energy by the cables installed to the battery, I was told that who did that Job wasn’t installed by very well trained people, I knows who it works intelligence like CIA , NSA , FBI , to work for those agencies, trained the way they required, I believe in conspiracy and if JFK was victim of conspiracy according my common senses and what the FBI director when Kennedy was president he said what I was trying to hear from a source of intelligence I’m not an FBI agent or CIA I just used common sense IQ by the 1800 century I Q is based on common sense . Mr. Shepherd do you believe in conspiracy I mean it’s not the same rumors or paranoia that conspiracy and if my Range Rover , after the tracker was founded I got an accident driving I 95 south the right front wheel and most of the screw only one was holding the tired and the tired of a beam new and very safe car gone it made sense that someone it’s trying to get rid of me ? I report the incident to agencies but no arrests are made yet . Mr. Shepherd I was looking at your profile google you knows what I’m talking about you can handle it and understand what others can’t . Lloyd Louthose it’s a very loyal friend and Lloyd hate injustices Lloyd now you are one of the fews who knows what I’m pretty sure it’s not paranoid it’s the fact , life it’s ironic I started what I don’t regretted protecting my childrens and many more now I’m living Awy from my family and doing my best to before I left my mission on Earth see my dream came trough, get paid for what those individuals are doing and donate money to Teachers for America, Miami Childrens hospital and San Judas and see more people join the resistance and spread nation worldwide my name and the fact that I don’t want merit I want to be honest keep doing my best because I don’t want the world destroyed by people who don’t do anything I want to stop people who do evils doing what it’s nothing but do what we should do . Einstein said that the world won’t be destroyed by who do evils but but those who see evils doing evils and they do ANYTHING.
Mr. Shepherd I appreciate your kindness and understanding worlds . I love London I been financing my peaceful movement working as a Trader and my favorite Brokers and investor who I thanks for the change to gave me job , London I stay connected with London everyday People from London are very King . Real friends as well Americans like Lloyd and others who one way or another feel the pain and respect my comments and support me . Mr. Shepherd my post are long but it’s a way to spread my concern and pain God use people like you to help unknown person like me . Thanks and Enjoy the day .
Mr. Shepherd if you love music in Miami are the best producer they scape from Cuba , in Cuba there is nothing or much left Cuban people loss the desire for who back in the day we love , baseball, music, vacations. Why because the Regimen destroyed the pearl of the Caribbean and Cuban People suffering
Engagement with people who killed innocents ? If in that engagement don’t say anyone guilty of kill send by the regimen should pay with prison and anyone related with Brothers Castro’s , excuse mr Mr. Bob . The Cuban community won’t negotiate any engagement where Raul Castro who is still alive ( Castro should be prosecuted or abandon the Island because the Cuban people can’t or want even remember the last name Castro if that was my last name I could change for real . I feel the pain 60 years an island suffering? The pear of the Caribbean turned in ruins by the Brothers Castro’s and theirs aliados the Soviet Union evils who planed no only killed thausand of Cuban also Kennedy was killed by a plan of Castro and Soviet Union and who killed Kennedy according the FBI director by Kennedy time said that Oswald was framed and who kill JFK was an KKK member trained by the Cuban community, the Cuban community believe Kennedy betrayed the attack to pig bay , wrong two country’s of the United Nation did not autorizase the take off air force’s Americans planes fired jet to support the invasion, dumbs Cubans who says Kennedy was communist Kennedy was one the graters president this country has . Keenedy was trying to get rid off the evil Castro and Castro used his evil intelligence and evils colegas to kill our president. Anyone who says that Kennedy or Democrat are communist are Trump followers or dumbs who have no clue that Republicans are more conservative and Democrats more liberals but no communist party in US that is why I chose to die in America free than in my land without freedom. Have a good day . The history is beautiful but evil people deserve taken out from the history.
I agree with you, Reibel, but we trade with China, the Saudis, even Russia before Putin invaded Ukraine.
Our embargo has accomplished nothing other than to impoverish the Cuban people.
Diane you are right , Trump should beside talk to much bs regarding the trade with China and those crazy tariffs that hurt more Americans than Chinese, Trump did a mess , Russian interference, Trade war , January 6 , Trump trough bottles of ketchup against White House wall , maybe because the Republicans patty color is red and ketchup is red , tomatoes 🍅 dripping walls because Trump was thinking maybe same way as Putin be president forever, how people can be so dumb ? Regarding Cuba you are right Diane the restrictions against the regimen hurt more the Cuban people by the way I recommend before people go to Cuba thinking twice because those Regimen grabs anyone put false evidence such as spying and there is not speculations in Cuban Prison are American people charged ilegal for spying when they was tried to bring computers to help the educations , Dictatorships are untrustworthy and if you read the last page of the American passport it’s clear two country’s where US warned not visit Cuba and North Korea Russia long time ago I told my Doctor she love visited Russia I told Don’t go because Putin is a wolf 🐺 with wolf closes dress , last week she thanks to me for the advice . You Diane knows a lot about Cuban and US . I want you where you can be safe , do you knows in case that an accident Cuba has not helicopters 🚁 to bring people to trauma centers more than that Cuba has no 911 services, after tragic accident people get in the hospital hours laters I would like to everyone stay as save as possible that is why I comment back to back everyday in Cuba are thousands of accidents no tragic lights , cars tires are old , roads are destroyed and bridges 🌉 collapsed and tourists don’t know many have failed after they cars end up without road because they don’t know no warnings bridges that people travel trough now no more . Diane I hope my comment help . Thanks for your post I know you are like Hemingway who love the Cuban people and the Cuban people Love Hemingway because of that I love the American people and a bunch of Americans people love me ❤️✌️
I think you mean 63 years, not 73.
Jim, you are right.
https://fhrcuba.org/2015/07/twenty-one-years-later-horrors-of-the-cuban-tugboat-massacre-loom-over-cuban-government/
Before Visiting Cuban people should read what Gys evils Castro’s did . I loss a lot of friends the Captain of this boat , a good friend of my loss his lovely wife who was pregnant and his sister . To sad to keep posting and endless comments
Horrific. thank you for sharing this, Mr. Castillo!
Your very welcome Mr.Shepherd I appreciate for being understanding believe when I think about Cuba my mind get so deep inside to the point where I can’t get out and I keep sharing as much information as I can . I see the bright side of peoples or goberment the bright side of the Cuban Regimen, Education for Free and great education, Health for Free and great compare with Germany and many others powerful country’s now anymore because the Cuban Goberment lastly became loser and they don’t want admitted that communism work only in theory. Made senses ?
Reibel, one thing a tourist sees very clearly when they visit Cuba is that Communism has failed. I visited China in 1986, before Tienamen Square, Russia before the collapse of the USSR, East Germany before the Berlin Wall fell. I’m glad I did.
Diane I do understand why you visited Cuba , URRS and East Germany. Peace Maker it’s something beautiful, Reagan did a great Job , I’m been waiting to see who can do a Job like the Ronald Reagan did . Reagan and the CIA US , did what it’s in the History like a great change for good even though when now I’m figuring out how the evil Putin and the KGB hide what now it’s on the light 💡. Putin stolen our technology and destroyed the great Job that Reagan and Gorbachev did ! Diane I know you don’t love injustices I never well forget I will never forget when you and many others on Worldpress supported me when my children were abused at the Hiealeah Education Academy Charter School. Inc. The Mayor Ciry Chairman of the Charter turned the police agains me, Diane Thabks God, thabks you, Thabks to Lloyd Louthose, Thanks to Susan Lee Stuart, Thanks to the Retired Teacher, Thabks to Cristine. Diane Worldpress is my favorite site on the internet. Diane my dauther won the scholarship in Sigcology Mayor thabks God and you because you recommend me send my childrens to a public Schooll.Diane do you visited Ernest Hermingay house in 2013 ? Marina Hermingay the Viejo y el Mar ( The old Men and the Sea Hotel in Marina Hemingway? Diane don’t get upset with me because my long comments Or because sometimes I get out of contexts , I want to apologize if you don’t like the way I’m . Diane my articulation is pretty bad and easy to understand that I’m not an English Speaker I grow up in Cuba when I was 21 I stolen a Cuban/ Soviet boat I trained my trusted friend who I hired in the Ship I was in charge , when the Soviet Union left in Cuba Ship , planes and more I was prepared trained to fly or navigate Ships , why the goberment put me as an Soviet Union ship Captain? Because I was trained graduated in the Naval Academy ( Granma / Runer by Cuban Soviet Union . I was a very smart student very dedicated but Still the regimen could not washed my brain I conspiracy and I taught ( teach ) many people who to navigate from Cuba to US , I’m proud of what I did maybe more than thausands of people are in USA who knows if some senators or at any moment a son of a friend of my who I helped to came to USA maybe someday I’ll see one of those kids running as a President of this great nation . I’m proud of everything I did. I know I don’t like to many people because the way I’m , you are one of the person who obviously Diden’t like me ( Since I started with long comments you treat me rude ( Reibel enough is enough) Reibel I’ll put your comments in moderation forever . Diane I never forget that even though you can see you can feel my heart forgive you , I did nothing but exposed what happened in the Charter Schooll and I started let it the nation knows what was going on in the school sistem I know pretty well how Cuba school sistem works , thanks God I learned a lot how US American school sistem work . Diane thanks for let my comments goes as far as I want . I love big comments because it’s a way to refresh my knowledge and let other know what I know . Hemingway I considered Mr. Hemingway a genius with disabilities, Bipolar, Hemingway says happiness in intelligent people it’s the rarest thing I know . Could you Diane meditate in those words, Happiness in intelligent people it’s the rarest thing I know ~ Ernest Hemingway ~ I do agreed with Hemingway quote and you ? Diane you are very smart person and thanks to you I meet up Robby who Run Hilary Campaign at win wood Miami the FIRTS office open in Miami I stayed to the last moment connected fighting against Trump supporting Hilary because Trump and Betsy bough destroying the good education , I don’t judge books by it covers . American is white , red and blue , but Trump and his supporters plan’s turn American only on Red . Diane I knows Miami very well , to all of you who I consider love of justice I will more than happy to be as a trusted tours to bring to where you guys want to , Schools, Public Parks before privatization take the control . Think about it. I’m working by myself since 2014 a year after you visited Cuba . Diane we need to resolve the problems we are facing inside our Land US then jump to others country’s . Does made sense ?
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My name is Reibel Castillo I don’t recommend no one to visit Cuba because it’s risking it’s sad and if dictators treat better tours than they own people I think it’s disrespectful to the freedom that left Cuba more than 6 decades ago . Are those tours for free ? If not I can tell it’s lucrative purpose .Diane you visit China in 1986 , I study in the Soviet Union before the collapse of the USSR and I feel pretty sad when I mediate and realize that I was part of the worts sistem and longer in power as dictator / totalitarian/ China I think China has help the world in many ways/ China has helped eliminate puberty by 90 % . China has less contamination than smaller country’s thanks to the sistem economy planted . China got more bulled train than all countries in the world US got none . People blain on China because they have the strongest economy of the wars . China it’s hybrid China don’t like wars but are very well prepared to stop Putin if he want take a foot of China territory and China got the stronger economy in the war . Visit China should be very interesting and beautiful but visiting Russia/ URRS nothing to be glad . That country never has build a democracy and freedom. Cuba same .
Yes, you make a lot of sense about a great many matters, Mr. Castillo.
Thanks Mr.Shepherd, what I know is not my below to people like you , I read a lot , no one born knowing much, what we know it’s earned . Thanks for the encouraging and remember you got a friend in Miami . If I can help you with? Count on me . Be kind , be nice be helpful and be yourself. Bob you are original from what State ? I don’t know much about the others 50 plus state , Florida, California, New York , Texas , North Carolina I know a bit about those states beside that no much about others states . Have a nice evening or afternoon depend where you at , I’m estern times .
Mr. Bob I get interested into read . The InFidel .
Sound like the Infiel ,
Sound like get inside Fidel dictatorship and made it fall . I’m going to read it if it’s able to buy . Mr. Bob the more we read the more we learn maybe that made me more wiser . Mr. Shepherd you are a very humble person your comment short say a lot and my I’m trying to let others know I’m a friendly person just I don’t understand why evils dictatorship don’t feel compassion for the world