The New Cuba
You gotta think just what the 'original' Fidel had stuck up his ass?
Since finally succeeding his ailing 81-year-old brother, Fidel, in February, Mr. Castro, 76, who appeared before hundreds of thousands of Cubans at a May Day rally on Thursday here in the capital, has been busy with a flurry of changes. In the last eight weeks he has also opened access to cellphones, lifted the ban on Cubans using tourist hotels and granted farmers the right to manage unused land for profit.
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"Javier, a 25-year-old computer programmer, has made up his mind to leave Cuba for California as soon as he can. “Come on, these changes are only in favor of a very tiny part of the population,” he said, sitting along a coastal wall and staring into the ocean. “We, who get up early in the morning to get the bus, we, who have sacrificed ourselves, we can’t afford all this,” he added. “I’d love to go to a fancy hotel with my girlfriend for a night or two. But, hey, I simply can’t. I couldn’t afford it, even in my dreams.”"
I've got news for Javier. I commute two hours to NYC from Central Jersey by bus, to a job that pays me 12k less than it used to, because my original position was "eliminated." I can hardly afford my mortgage anymore. And rent in the North East is now the same or more.
At least if he stays in Cuba, he can still dream about how great it will be for him in the U.S.
Oh, and I have not stayed in a hotel in three years. And that night was complimentary.