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Originally Posted by Streck-Fu
Are you sure that they won't a quaint happy place with beautiful weather and beaches that will now get much better once they start trading with the US...
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You would think Cuba has those features, but the beaches and especially the infrastructure are shockingly bad, even by Caribbean standards, I don't expect them to become a booming tourist location anytime soon.
Part of it is the decades of socialist programming. The people were definitely nice enough, but it just seemed they were always waiting for someone to tell them what to do, like any initiative or self determination had been weeded out of them for generations.
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